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Read North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers
North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers

North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers

May 12, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

This week, the San Jose City Council unanimously authorized plans for a sophisticated manufacturing complex and data centers in North San Jose. Denver-based STACK Infrastructure plans to destroy two industrial buildings on a nearly 10-acre parcel, including a former Olympus service center, and...

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Read Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations
Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

April 18, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

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Read StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities
StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

April 18, 2023 California

StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased to a...

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Read Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network
Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

April 06, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area to...

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Read Hawaii Pacific Teleport to be Bought by Calian
Hawaii Pacific Teleport to be Bought by Calian

Hawaii Pacific Teleport to be Bought by Calian

March 13, 2023 1547 AlohaNAP

Hawaii Pacific Teleport, a US teleport company, will sell its assets to Calian Group (HPT). HPT was established in 1998 and is based on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The site is home to more than 15 antennas, with the largest measuring 15.5 meters and functioning in the C, Ku, Ka, and X bands....

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Read Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers
Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers

Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers

March 10, 2023 California

Honda has announced that its old retired Clarity fuel cells will now be used for backup power at one of its data centers as part of a trial project. The company said that this aligns with its carbon neutrality goals, which it aims to reach by 2050, and promotes circular economy principles. The...

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Read Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center
Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

March 02, 2023 California

The developer Valley Oak Partners, located in San Jose, California, has proposed constructing a data center with a floor space of 490,000 square feet at the former location of the construction materials firm USG in Fremont, California. According to Valley Oak, the facility would serve as a venue...

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Read Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California
Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

February 24, 2023 California

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximately...

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Read ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers
ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers

ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers

January 26, 2023 California

ECL has announced $7 million in seed funding, with plans to build the first 3D-printed modular data center to be powered by green hydrogen in California. The first facility will be built at its headquarters in Mountain View, using a construction 3D printer and a local building services company....

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Read MDC develops data center in San Diego, California
MDC develops data center in San Diego, California

MDC develops data center in San Diego, California

January 23, 2023 California

MDC Data Centers (formerly McAllen Data Centers) has announced that it is developing a new data center in San Diego, California, at 7014 Manya Cir. The new location is in partnership with Mexican telco Vívaro Telecom and will be ready to begin operations in the second quarter of 2023.The facility...

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Read Twitter closes its Sacramento data center
Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

January 05, 2023 Sacramento

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as CEO...

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Read Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site
Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site

Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site

November 02, 2022 Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Prime Data Centers has begun work on its Santa Clara data center in California. Located at 2175 Martin Ave, the three-story facility is on a 1.6-acre plot and is designed as a turnkey build-to-suit facility offering 80,000 square feet (7,430 sqm) of purpose-built data center space and 9MW with...

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Read DRFortress is Expanding its Honolulu Facility
DRFortress is Expanding its Honolulu Facility

DRFortress is Expanding its Honolulu Facility

October 25, 2022 DRFortress Honolulu

DRFortress has announced its plans to expand its Honolulu data center. The Hawaiian colo company will add 130 cabinets to the data center located at 3375 Koapaka Street. The expansion will see the facility's total cabinet increase to 600. Its data center space will also increase to 5,000 square...

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Read Zscaler announces carbon neutral status and aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2025
Zscaler announces carbon neutral status and aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2025

Zscaler announces carbon neutral status and aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2025

September 19, 2022 California

Zscaler has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status, and said that it intends to reach net zero emissions by 2025. However, the company has not published a link to the emissions and carbon accounting data underlying this claim along with the announcement, and the data has not yet...

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Read Essential Twitter data center knocked offline by heat extremes
Essential Twitter data center knocked offline by heat extremes

Essential Twitter data center knocked offline by heat extremes

September 13, 2022 California

As heat extremes in California continue, Twitter has reportedly been left without one of its key data centers in Sacramento. First reported by CNN, an internal company memo outlined that the company experienced the loss of its Sacramento data center region on September 5th, with Carrie Fernandez,...

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Read Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus
Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus

Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus

September 08, 2022 Nautilus Stockton

Backblaze, a storage cloud platform, has contracted with Nautilus Data Technologies for 1 Megawatt deployment at their Stockton Data Center in California. The move comes as part of Backblaze's plan to expand its data center portfolio and provide more scalable, efficient, and affordable cloud...

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Read California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave
California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave

California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave

September 06, 2022 California

California temperatures have soared to a record high, placing serious pressure on the power grid, and causing state officials to urge residents to limit their power usage. According to reports, the heat wave is most seriously affecting the Central Valley, which is projected to reach 115 degrees...

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Read CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco
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CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco

September 05, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in the...

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Read HPE accelerates climate goals
HPE accelerates climate goals

HPE accelerates climate goals

June 30, 2022 California

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that it has accelerated climate goals, bringing them down from 2050 to 2040, following its most recent Living Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2021, which it released this week. The tech giant said that it will facilitate this change by establishing a...

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Read PubMatic announces its global data centers are now fully powered by renewable energy
PubMatic announces its global data centers are now fully powered by renewable energy

PubMatic announces its global data centers are now fully powered by renewable energy

June 23, 2022 California

PubMatic has reportedly achieved 100% renewable energy across all of its data centers globally, including in California, New Jersey, London, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Sourced from wind and solar power, this achievement is a significant one for the company, whose energy usage is 90% composed of...

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