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AWS planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia

AWS is planning a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Located in west Sydney, under the program name Project Echidna, the facility will see an investment of AU$300 million (US$200m). Built across two stories, the facility will offer 35.2MW of capacity on 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft), and is loc...

June 27, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities

According to a news release from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Amazon intends to invest approximately $8 billion over six years in growing its data center business in central Ohio. Per a press release on Monday, the $7.8 billion initiative marks the second-largest private sector investment in Ohi...

June 27, 2023

Amazon AWS

Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS

Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since 2...

June 22, 2023

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Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County.The single-story building encompasses 1...

June 22, 2023

Equinix

365 Data Centers Planned Tampa Campus Expansion

365 Data Centers is constructing an additional data center space at its Tampa, Florida, site. The Tampa Internet Exchange and 25 carriers are housed in the Franklin Exchange building at 655 North Franklin Street, the campus location. The company's current market footprint will double due to t...

June 20, 2023

365 Data Centers

More data center proposals in Spotsylvania; AWS files for four rezoning requests for data centers

More data centers are set to arrive in Spotsylvania County, as applications continue to pile up. Amazon is one of the key drivers here, planning four new data center campuses in Virginia's Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, equating to more than 10 million square feet of development.Amazon ha...

June 13, 2023

Amazon AWS

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, wi...

June 12, 2023

Equinix

SES will offer satellite connectivity for the AWS modular data facility

SES released a satellite connectivity solution for Department of Defense (DoD) clients using the new modular data center product from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This week, SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned division of SES, announced that satellite-powered network connectivity is now avai...

June 12, 2023

Amazon AWS

AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040.AWS has also a...

June 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined cap...

June 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the co...

May 31, 2023

Equinix

Criticisms launched at Amazon's $1 billion subsidy in eastern Oregon

Amazon's contentious $1 billion subsidy in Oregon is coming under fire from critics. The massive break was given the go-ahead following a unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners which enabled the giant to secure the enterprise zone incentives. Locals were given just one day's no...

May 30, 2023

Amazon AWS

AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data c...

May 26, 2023

Amazon AWS

Japan Data Facility Purchased by Mapletree Industrial Trust

The acquisition of a data center in Osaka, Japan, signifies Mapletree Industrial Trust's entrance into the Japanese data center market. This week, the manager of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), Mapletree Industrial Trust Management Ltd., announced the purchase of a recently constructed data ...

May 26, 2023

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Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...

May 23, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon Receives $1 Billion in Oregon Tax Rebates For New Data Center Facilities

Officials in a rural county in the northeastern corner of Oregon have voted to provide Amazon with tax benefits that are believed to be worth one billion dollars so that the company can build five additional data centers there. According to The Oregonian and OregonLive, the five commissioners ...

May 11, 2023

Amazon AWS

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collective...

May 09, 2023

Equinix

DataBank Begins Construction of a New Data Facility in Atlanta, Georgia

DataBank has begun constructing a new data center in Atlanta, Georgia, and has completed an expansion in San Diego, California.The US-based business announced the start of construction on its ATL4 data center in Atlanta last week. The colocation facility, located at 200 Selig Drive, will incl...

May 04, 2023

DataBank

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in...

April 27, 2023

Equinix

DataBank to expand one of its Seattle, Washington facilities

DataBank has announced it is expanding one of its Seattle, Washington facilities. The company plans to increase the floor space to 27,900 square feet (2,590 sqm) and up the available critical IT power to 3MW.“We decided to expand our footprint in the Seattle area based on how fast its digital...

April 18, 2023

DataBank

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