September 28, 2023 Google
59-year-old data center luminary Luiz André Barroso unexpectedly passed away on September 16, 2023. The DC legend joined Google in 2001 and was fundamental in remodeling the company's DC design, impacting the industry. Before his journey with Google, Barroso worked at Digital Equipment...
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September 28, 2023 Aligned
On September 25, 2023, Aligned Data Centers announced the acquisition of a new brownfield land in Perkins Township., Northeast Ohio. The firm purchased the 129-acre parcel to construct a new four-building hyperscale data center campus. Aligned said its NEO-01 data center, the first of the four...
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September 26, 2023 Google
A Google-affiliated company has acquired 143 acres in Moncks Corner industrial site, Berkeley Country, where the Silicon Valley tech giant has operated a data center since 2007. Arum Composites LLC purchased this parcel, comprising five parcels across Mount Holly Commerce Park Cypress Gardens...
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September 22, 2023 QTS Data Centers
The South Carolina Office of the Governor confirmed that DC firm QTS will establish operations in York Country, marking the company’s entry into the state. This comes after news of a major data center project in York County dubbed ‘Project Cobra’ surfaced in June 2023. Gov. Henry McMaster...
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September 22, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has established a data center in Toronto, Canada. This week, the company revealed the dispatch of the first 8MW phase of the 56MW Ontario campus. First Gulf, a Toronto-based developer, collaborated with Stack to execute the initial 8MW data center by refurbishing an existing...
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September 20, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
STACK, a leading global developer and operator of data centers and the digital infrastructure partner to the most cutting-edge businesses in the world, announced the completion of the first phase at its flagship campus in Toronto. The first phase of the campus, with a total capacity of 56MW, is...
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September 18, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX, a provider of Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, revealed a $ 403,8 million contract in Sustainability-Linked Senior Facilities to expedite its growth strategy and green initiatives for its Jakarta, Indonesia, data center footprint. This transaction, according to EdgeConneX, will...
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September 15, 2023 Oracle
Oracle will host its Exadata database-optimized server and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data centers under a contract. The businesses now offer "Oracle Database@Azure," so Oracle and Azure clients can mix their data with Microsoft's apps and infrastructure via the Azure interface...
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September 14, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has shared that it has secured $403.8 million in sustainability-linked financing (SLF). This loan is for its 120MW data center campus development in Jakarta, Indonesia.The deal leverages EdgeConneX's Sustainability Strategy and will reportedly use offshore US dollar borrowing. It...
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September 11, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX continues to grow its APAC operations by adding three facilities in Malaysia, located in and around Kuala Lumpur. Business Today and Edge Malaysia report that EdgeConneX signed a sales and purchase contract with Cyberview earlier this month to acquire a 12.14-hectare tract of land in...
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September 11, 2023 Google
Google has submitted two planning applications to Kansas City to develop its Northland at the Hunt Midwest Business Center site. The cloud computing company acquired 78.9 acres in Northland, Kansas City, in 2019, followed by an additional 236.4 acres in December 2021, stating that the parcel of...
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September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to...
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September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week. The ROM1 data...
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September 05, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX plans to establish a new data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand its presence there. According to BizJournal, the company has applied for Mesa's administrative and design reviews to construct a multi-phased campus near Elliot Road and Loop 202. EdgeConneX wants to build a...
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September 01, 2023 Google
Google will construct a second campus in Texas in the Red Oak neighborhood of Dallas. This week, the company announced intentions to invest $600 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas to build its second data center. The search, advertising, and cloud company stated that it would invest...
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August 31, 2023 Google
Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 189MW...
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August 31, 2023 NTT
NTT's Ashburn, Virginia, data center has been delivered by the construction company Clark. This week, Clark Construction Group revealed the notable finalization of the first phase of the VA6 Data Center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The project, which began in May 2022, was completed on time for...
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August 29, 2023 Verizon Enterprise
Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and is...
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August 29, 2023 Google
Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...
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August 28, 2023 NTT
The entire capacity of NTT's data center campuses currently under construction in Kolkata, Noida, Chennai, and other areas of Maharashtra has been pre-booked. NTT Data's Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Ravi Kumar, stated. The Japanese conglomerate revealed plans to invest $2 billion in...
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