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Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney

February 24, 2022 Sydney

According to ITNews, Fortius has listed its data center at 549 Harris Street, Sydney, Australia, for sale through JLL and CBRE. The data center is currently being occupied by Optus. Optus’ lease on the data center will expire in 2024 with no further option for expansion. This is a 60,300 square...

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Read Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed
Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed

Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed

February 22, 2022 Northern Virginia

Recently, a committee of the Board of Supervisors argued that data centers should be prevented from being built on the Route 7 corridor in northeastern Loudoun County. Already the area is home to 25 million square feet of data centers, with data center development booming in recent years, a boom...

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Read Plaza Realty Files For Rezoning of Land For a 1 million sq ft Data Center in Prince William County
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Plaza Realty Files For Rezoning of Land For a 1 million sq ft Data Center in Prince William County

February 09, 2022 Northern Virginia

The development of a large-scale data center in Prince William County, Virginia, is being proposed by developers. Developers submitted plans to have a site at 14854 Dumfries Road to the west of Dale City and the east of the Northern Virginia county be rezoned. They want to develop a 1 million...

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Read Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings
Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

February 03, 2022 Singapore

According to Cushman & Wakefield's 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison report, Singapore now ties with the US's Silicon Valley in its league table of the top data center markets. This means that Singapore is now the top market for data centers in Asia-Pacific, beating Hong Kong (6th...

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Read Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County
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Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County

February 03, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to Biz Journal, Amazon Data Services Inc. has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. The buildings acquired are located at 46020. 46010, and 46000 Manekin Plaza. The Loudoun County deed records show that Amazon paid over $21 million for the properties. According to...

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Read Prince William data center proposal moves ahead
Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

February 02, 2022 Northern Virginia

The much-debated data center proposal located near Haymarket, Virginia, has made progress despite the Prince William County Planning Commission being unable to agree on a recommendation for the facility. The motion to recommend approval ended in a tie of 4:4, sending the proposal to the Board of...

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Read Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?
Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

January 17, 2022 Singapore

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken. In a written reply to a...

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Read More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield
More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

January 12, 2022 Northern Virginia

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fear"...

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Read Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan
Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

December 24, 2021 Northern Virginia

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to the...

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Read Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia
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Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

December 19, 2021 Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis NOVA...

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Read Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney
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Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

December 16, 2021 Sydney

Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the...

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Read OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF
OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

December 15, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024 “We are proud to...

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Read Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics
Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

December 09, 2021 Northern Virginia

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway", is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental...

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Read Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center
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Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

November 12, 2021 Northern Virginia

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center...

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Read OVHcloud goes public
OVHcloud goes public

OVHcloud goes public

October 18, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its share...

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Read OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone
OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

October 13, 2021 OVH Group

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down due...

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Read Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia
Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

October 13, 2021 Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend, which DigitalBridge acquired earlier in the year, has acquired what it refers to as a “portfolio of assets” in Northern Virginia. It acquired 1.2 million square feet of data center space within the Quantum Park in Northern Virginia. According to Landmark Dividend, the property...

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Read The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed
The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

October 12, 2021 Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is in the midst of a data center boom. This has partly developed due to a demand for new data centers resulting from the pandemic, which means that it currently has the highest density of data centers in the world. Loudoun County alone has over 100 data centers, with more than...

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Read Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)
Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

October 01, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of the...

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Read Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan
Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

October 01, 2021 Milan

Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new data...

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