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Google's Oregon plans given the green light despite water concerns

On Monday, The Dalles council unanimously approved a $28.5 million deal for Google to build two new data centers in the area. This approval has gone ahead despite water concerns; due to the area currently being drought-stricken and the proposed facilities potentially guzzling millions of gallo...

November 12, 2021

Google

Former T5 data center in New York put up for sale

The Lincoln Property Company is offering a former T5 data center at 600 Albany Post Rd, Briarcliff Manor, New York, for sale or lease. The data center has two stories, and it has 36,000 square feet of space while sitting on 9 acres of land. The facility has a capacity of 2MW, expandable to ...

November 12, 2021

T5 Data Centers

Oracle opens cloud regions in Singapore and France

Oracle has announced the opening of its new cloud regions in Singapore and Marseilles, France. The two regions are Oracle’s first in both countries. However, Oracle plans to open another cloud region in France next year. According to Oracle, the Marseille cloud region works with a “river cooli...

November 11, 2021

Oracle

Google buys 53 hectares of land in Wallonia, Belgium For Data Center Development

According to L’Echo and La Nouvelle Gazette, Google has acquired over 50 hectares of land in Belgium. The search giant acquired the land in the Wallonia region of Belgium for developing data centers and office buildings. The Saint Ghislain data center in Belgium was Google’s first expansion in...

November 11, 2021

Google

Oracle opens another cloud region in UAE

Oracle has announced the opening of a cloud region in Abu Dhabi, making it the firm’s second cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company opened its first cloud region in the UAE in 2020 after opening a facility in partnership with Etisalat in 2019. Oracle now has four cloud facilitie...

November 10, 2021

Oracle

CIM Group sells four data centers to 1547 and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital

CIM Group has completed the sale of four US data centers. The Real estate firm owned the portfolio of data centers with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547). Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and 1547 bought the facilities from CIM Group. The facilities are located in Cheyenne, W...

November 05, 2021

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

Tackling the water scarcity issue: Controversy and secrecy

Water scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue globally, and data centers, which typically guzzle around 3-5 million gallons of water per day, the equivalent of the water usage by 30,000-50,000 people, are adding to the problem. As the climate issue worsens and big tech companies continue to...

November 04, 2021

Google

Oracle to launch cloud region in Saudi Arabia’s Neom city

Oracle is the latest company to join the Neom city project. Neom subsidiary, Neom Tech & Digital Holding Company, recently announced that Oracle will be the "first tenant" of the hyperscale data center in the new city.Abdullah Alswaha, Minister for Communications and Information Technology...

October 29, 2021

Oracle

Ziply Fiber expands to H5 Data Centers' facilities in Seattle and Washington

H5 Data Centers has announced that Ziply Fiber is expanding to its data centers in downtown Seattle and Quincy, Washington. Ziply Fiber provides a commercial-grade purpose-built network for the internet. Ziply Fiber joins the different carriers available at H5’s Tier III data centers. Chr...

October 29, 2021

H5 Data Centers

NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

NTT has announced that it has broken ground on expanding its data center in Vienna, Austria. The company will add 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) to the Vienna 1 facility. By so doing, Vienna will have 92,500 square feet (8,600 square meters) upon expansion. NTT says the expansion is ...

October 29, 2021

NTT

The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities

The city council of The Dalles has voted to grant Google new property tax breaks. The tax breaks are for Google’s two new data centers. However, before Google commences work on its new data centers, it also hopes to increase its water usage significantly with a new agreement. The city counc...

October 28, 2021

Google

Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

October 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Google's new 'green campus': What it is and what it means for the future of Google

Google’s new Bay View campus, located east of the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, will reportedly be opened to a select number of employees by January and is reportedly a representative of the company’s wider goals and vision. According to Google, the campus itself is ...

October 19, 2021

Google

OVHcloud goes public

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 sha...

October 18, 2021

OVH Group

Oracle to explore potential of new Cloud region in Serbia with MoU

Oracle Cloud has signed an MoU with the Government of Serbia at the World Expo in Dubai this week. The purpose of the MoU is to explore the possibility of opening an Oracle data region within the State Data Center in Kragujevac. According to a press release by the Serbian Government, the new l...

October 18, 2021

Oracle

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

October 15, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

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 ...

October 13, 2021

OVH Group

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

Stack Infrastructure has revealed its plan to expand into the Asia Pacific region. The company is planning to open a regional headquarters in Singapore. It would also expand into Osaka and Tokyo immediately before entering into Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and other Asia Pa...

October 13, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Oracle opens underground data center in Jerusalem, Israel

Oracle has announced that it has opened a Cloud region in Israel. With the underground data center opening in Jerusalem, Oracle has become the first hyperscale firm to open a Cloud region in the country. CEO of Oracle, Safra Katz, said organizations and government bodies need to transit to the...

October 13, 2021

Oracle

Oracle plans further expansion for its cloud region

Oracle has announced the details for its 14 new cloud regions. The company plans to have 14 more cloud regions over the next year. By opening the new regions, Oracle will now have 44 cloud regions across the globe. The company has plans for new regions in Latin America, Middle East, Europe, an...

October 12, 2021

Oracle

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