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Read Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment
Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

February 15, 2023 Google

Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...

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Read Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities
Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities

Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities

February 14, 2023 AWS US East (Ohio)

A data center in New Albany, Ohio, has been purchased by Canadian IT company Compugen. According to local property documents cited by BizJournal, Compugen Real Estate Holdings recently purchased a property in Franklin County, northeast of Columbus, at 7000 Souder Road. The former data center was...

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Read Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers
Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

February 14, 2023 Google

Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to use...

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Read Reports Suggest QTS Will Join Diode's Kansas City Data Center Facility
Reports Suggest QTS Will Join Diode's Kansas City Data Center Facility

Reports Suggest QTS Will Join Diode's Kansas City Data Center Facility

February 09, 2023 QTS Data Centers

QTS may use a Diode Ventures data center in Kansas City, Missouri. In October, Diode signed two non-exclusive fiber easement with QTS Realty Trust Inc. to develop and maintain data transmission infrastructure at the site northeast of I-435 and Highway 169, according to BizJournal. Last year,...

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Read Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks
Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

February 09, 2023 Google

Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an email...

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Read Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure
Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

February 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling...

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Read Meta Plans To Save $4bn On Data Centers And Create New AI Facilities Faster and Cheaper
Meta Plans To Save $4bn On Data Centers And Create New AI Facilities Faster and Cheaper

Meta Plans To Save $4bn On Data Centers And Create New AI Facilities Faster and Cheaper

February 08, 2023 Meta

In a cost-cutting effort, Meta claims to have rebuilt its data centers to be less expensive and quicker to build. Meta canceled or paused data centers worldwide and redesigned them for additional artificial intelligence demands late last year. Facebook's Danish data center development and Texas,...

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Read Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia
Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

February 07, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will construct a new Azure cloud region and data center in Saudi Arabia. This week, the company revealed plans to build a new cloud data facility in Saudi Arabia. The news was made at the Riyadh conference LEAP 2023. Microsoft stated that the new cloud region will provide...

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Read Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa
Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa

Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa

January 31, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding in Iowa, following the issuing of a permit, valued at $255 million for a data center at 5855 SW Kerry St. As per the permit, the facility will span 250,000 sq ft. Described as the DSM 12 Buildout and located in West Des Moines, the SW Kerry Street site...

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Read Google lays off 6% of its workforce
Google lays off 6% of its workforce

Google lays off 6% of its workforce

January 25, 2023 Google

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has announced that it is making further cuts to its staff, and is set to lose around 6% of its global workforce. The giant's reasoning for the significant downsizing is similar to the reasons cited by other tech firms that have cut back on staff in recent...

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Read Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp
Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

January 19, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Suncorp Group and Microsoft have announced a three-year agreement, which will witness Suncorp increase its cloud footprint in Microsoft Azure while it winds down on-premise data centers. Suncorp has outlined its intentions to migrate 90% of workloads to the cloud by the end of this year. Its...

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Read Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio
Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio

Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio

January 12, 2023 Meta

Meta has signed a PPA with BP to source renewable energy from an upcoming a 134MWdc (107MWac), 675-acre Arche Solar farm project in Ohio, developed by BP 50:50 joint-venture partner and subsidiary Lightsource BP. The social media company will reportedly receive 100% of the power from the site. BP...

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Read Aligned plans 108MW Hillsboro campus
Aligned plans 108MW Hillsboro campus

Aligned plans 108MW Hillsboro campus

January 11, 2023 Aligned

Aligned has announced plans for an expansion into Hillsboro, Oregon, with a 27-acre, 108 MW data center campus. At the campus, the initial data center, PDX-01) is expected to offer 72MW of critical capacity and feature 12 6MW data halls across 27 acres. The company has shared that this site will...

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Read Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development
Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

January 10, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Following an extensive investigation by ProPublica, it has been found that Microsoft and local officials in rural Virginia helped erase a historic black cemetery by downplaying its cultural significance in order to pursue data center development. Back in 2014, when the giant was looking to expand...

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Read Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center
Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

January 04, 2023 Google

Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an...

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Read Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans
Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans

Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans

January 02, 2023 Meta

The latest data center to take the hit in Meta's AI redesign rethink is its Kuna, Idaho, data center. The facility, an $800 million development, was only announced by the giant in February, with the company commencing work on the project in September. Kuna data center paused as part of wider...

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Read Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project
Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

December 29, 2022 Google

Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it...

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Read QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project
QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project

QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project

December 22, 2022 QTS Data Centers

QTS has announced that it has connected its Groningen data center to the Dutch city's new district heating project. The heating project has been built by local utility WarmteStad, which is projected to produce heat for more than 10,000 households, buildings, and knowledge institutions by 2026....

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Read Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion
Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion

Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion

December 21, 2022 Meta

Meta has paused construction on its data center expansion in Huntsville, Alabama. This follows the giant’s announcement that its Odense, Denmark project was being completely canceled, and its Temple, Texas development was being paused as part of a wider AI data center design change. The...

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Read Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee
Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee

Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee

December 19, 2022 Meta

Meta has announced more solar projects, this time in Georgia and Tennessee. According to the company, the projects will be delivered through Silicon Ranch's partnership with Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Together, these three entities will...

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