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Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

May 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total i...

May 05, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

QTS reveals latest plans for campus in Prince William County's Digital Gateway

Last week, QTS submitted the third draft of its plans for the controversial and hotly debated Prince William Digital Gateway to the Prince William County government. The updated plan shows the company's intention to increase the size of its proposed buildings. QTS has also requested a waiver t...

May 03, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak

The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the f...

April 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

QTS Data Centers Suspends its Request For $45 million in Tax Benefits at its Atlanta Location

QTS Data Centers has refrained from requesting $45 million in tax incentives for its massive data center project near the Westside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, QTS halted its request for incentives for a $1.3 billion proposal involving two data ce...

April 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Stack Plans to Setting up Two San Jose Data Centers

Stack has applied for approval to expand its San Jose, California data center campus. This week, the San Jose City planning commission will consider Stack's request to construct two data centers at 2400 Ringwood Avenue and 1880 Fortune Drive in Santa Clara County, as first reported by SF Yimby...

April 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Google signs new PPA with EDPR

Google has announced that it has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), for solar energy in the US. This deal is reportedly the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for distributed generation signed between two companies in the US.Over 80 distr...

April 25, 2023

Google

Google merges DeepMind and Brain

Google has announced a merger between its DeepMind subsidiary and Google Research's Brain division, dubbed 'Google DeepMind, as it pursues its big AI push. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined that this move will "significantly accelerate" the company's AI progress. This move may co...

April 25, 2023

Google

EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and bus...

April 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore win...

April 19, 2023

Google

Intel Shifts Focus to High-Margin Businesses, Exits Prebuilt Server System Market with MiTAC Sale

Intel has announced that it will be exiting the prebuilt server system business due to its low-margin profitability. The Data Center Solutions Group (DSG) will be sold to MiTAC, an edge-to-cloud IT solutions provider and a long-standing ODM partner of DSG. MiTAC will have the right to manufact...

April 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Intel

Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus

Aligned bought an office property in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Elk Grove. It is currently unknown whether the company intends to convert the facility occupied by CitiBank into a data center. The Real Deal reports, citing Cook County public records, that Aligned purchased 50 Nort...

April 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned

Ex-Intel Chief Architect Considers Data Center Opportunities For an Indian AI Startup

Raja Koduri, the former chief architect of Intel Corp, is negotiating a contract with Hiranandani-backed data center company Yotta for his generative artificial intelligence venture, which he says will have a significant presence in India. Koduri stated that his unnamed company would partner w...

April 17, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Intel

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin Sto...

April 14, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects.According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will ke...

April 13, 2023

Google

GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A, purp...

April 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, which aims to encourage organizations to voluntarily utilize green power for the benefit of the planet and human health. Through signing up for the Green Power Partnership...

April 11, 2023

Aligned

NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a ...

April 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT

Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the ...

April 04, 2023

Google

Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged 50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report hi...

April 04, 2023

Google

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