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More layoffs in store at Meta

Meta's job cuts continue, with the announcement last week that the giant is driving forward with its so-called "year of efficiency." CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced massive cuts back in November; now, thousands more are set to be laid off. According to experts, while the first cuts were a...

March 13, 2023

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Meta Sells Mesa Property to EdgeCore Data Centers

Meta has sold a property in Mesa, Arizona, to the developer of data centers, EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, for $1.2 million. The lot, situated at 3856 S. Everton Terrace and comprising approximately 15 acres of land, has been acquired by EdgeCore as part of its substantial investment in th...

February 24, 2023

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

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...

February 15, 2023

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

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 u...

February 14, 2023

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Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

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 ema...

February 09, 2023

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

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 Texa...

February 08, 2023

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Google lays off 6% of its workforce

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 mon...

January 25, 2023

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Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio

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...

January 12, 2023

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Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

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 addit...

January 04, 2023

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

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 p...

January 02, 2023

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Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

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 r...

December 29, 2022

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Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion

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 Hunts...

December 21, 2022

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Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee

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 w...

December 19, 2022

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Meta 'rescopes' global projects

Meta, as part of a wider plan to integrate AI into its data center operations, has paused a number of its data center projects in a 'rescoping' effort, it has been announced. The first facility development that the giant announced it was halting was at its data center campus in Odense, Denmar...

December 16, 2022

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Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center

Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a buildin...

December 14, 2022

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Meta continues sustainability efforts with new PPA in Arkansas

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that it has signed another PPA with D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a renewable energy producer in the US. The PPA is a long-term renewable energy off-take agreement through which Meta will procure solar energy from the upcoming Long Lake Projec...

December 05, 2022

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Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to...

December 02, 2022

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Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

December 01, 2022

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New timing protocol implemented at Meta data centers

Meta has announced that it is deploying a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which will keep each server in its data centers on the same time. Servers must be coordinated, otherwise, users can experience delays, errors, and outages.In contrast to Network Time Protocol...

November 22, 2022

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Meta makes big cuts sacking 13% of its workforce

Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has announced the biggest job cuts in the giant's history, with 13% of its workforce set to lose their jobs in a move that follows big redundancies at Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the job cuts are "the mo...

November 15, 2022

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