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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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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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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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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February 06, 2023 Bulk Infrastructure AS
Bulk Data Centers has announced that it will provide its customers with 100 percent renewable energy 24/7. This, it has outlined, will be achieved by matching hourly consumption with local hydropower. Customers at Bulk's OS-IX facility in Oslo, Norway, will be able to choose to have renewable...
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February 01, 2023 Telia Company
Telia joins the big tech job cuts with the announcement that it is cutting 1,500 jobs this year, 1000 in the first quarter, and the rest throughout the year. According to the company, it has been aiming to reduce its workforce by around 1000 a year, since 2021, in line with its restructuring...
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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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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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January 24, 2023 Orange
At its Ivory Coast data center, telco Orange has deployed and commissioned a new solar plant. The facility, built back in 2016, offers 1.3MW of capacity, and is provided with energy from the new photovoltaic power plant for 50 percent of its daytime consumption (7am to 6pm). The company shared...
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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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January 17, 2023 Verizon Enterprise
Verizon has announced that it has signed four new power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy, an aggregate of up to 410 MW of renewable energy capacity. According to the company, these new deals align with its broader goal to source or generate renewable energy equivalent to 50 percent...
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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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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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December 30, 2022 Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk
Green Mountain has finalized the expansion of its data center campus in Oslo, Norway. As a component of its OSL1-Enebakk complex, the Nordic data center provider has constructed a new 13.5MW data center, initially slated to debut in November 2022, as was announced at the end of 2021. Earlier in...
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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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December 14, 2022 Google
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 building...
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December 12, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced plans to build an 'unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant' at its Grange Castle site, an upcoming data center development, due to its concerns about Ireland's energy grid constraints. According to the giant, plans are to build a 170 MW on-site power plant alongside 21...
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December 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure
According to BizJournal, Microsoft has plans to develop a new data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The publication cited the Loudoun County records for its information. Microsoft’s plan is to develop a $400 million facility on a 67-acre land it owns in the Arcola Business Park. The IAD11 data...
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December 05, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has partnered with ESR Group Limited to develop a 72MW data center campus in Osaka, Japan. The JV will see the companies develop the facility in Keihanna, Osaka. Stack and ESR schedule that the development of the first of three buildings will start in Q4 2023. The building...
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December 02, 2022 Google
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 be...
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