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Read CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.
CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

June 07, 2023 CloudHQ

CloudHQ has purchased land in San Antonio, Texas, to construct a data center campus. The company has acquired nearly 123 acres of land in the Texas Research Park, just down the street from Microsoft's Bexar County facilities. The University of Texas System sold CloudHQ the land bounded by Lambda...

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Read AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure
AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

June 02, 2023 Amazon AWS

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...

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Read Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland
Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

June 02, 2023 Amazon AWS

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...

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

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

May 31, 2023 Equinix

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...

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

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

May 30, 2023 Amazon AWS

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 notice...

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Read AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai
AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

May 26, 2023 Amazon AWS

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...

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Read Scala Data Centers launches the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil
Scala Data Centers launches the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil

Scala Data Centers launches the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil

May 25, 2023 Scala Data Centers

Scala has announced that it has launched the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, SGRUTB05, which adds 6MW of IT capacity to Tamboré Campus. Located in the Tamboré Campus, in Barueri city, it has a built area of 6,700 sqm, is 35.5 meters high, and has five floors, three of which...

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Read Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia
Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia

May 23, 2023 Amazon AWS

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...

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Read Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete
Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete

Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete

May 12, 2023 Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has signed an open letter published by iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), a non-profit striving for responsible digital transformation and sustainable digital infrastructure. The initiative strives to promote sustainable raw materials in the data center...

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

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

May 11, 2023 Amazon AWS

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 of...

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Read Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain
Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

May 09, 2023 Equinix

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; collectively,...

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Read Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK
Equinix Plans  30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

April 27, 2023 Equinix

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 favor...

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Read Scala Data Centers Opens a Data Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Scala Data Centers Opens a Data Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Scala Data Centers Opens a Data Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

April 25, 2023 Scala Data Centers

Scala's new data center in Rio de Janeiro for Scala Data Center is now operational. The Brazilian data center has a 7.2MW hyperscale capacity and only one anchor tenant at the moment. The So Joo do Meriti campus, where the SGIGSM01 facility is situated, will have 55MW of IT capacity when fully...

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Read Brazil's Odata Gets Licences For Santiago Data Center
Brazil's Odata Gets Licences For Santiago Data Center

Brazil's Odata Gets Licences For Santiago Data Center

April 17, 2023 ODATA SA

Carlos Salata, the quality manager for Odata, stated that the company's ST01 data center in Santiago, Chile, has obtained three ISO certifications, completing the process of obtaining this set of labels for all of its regional sites. The ISO 9001, ISO 20000-1, and ISO 27001 certifications were...

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Read AWS and Element Six Develop Synthetic Diamonds for Quantum Networks
AWS and Element Six Develop Synthetic Diamonds for Quantum Networks

AWS and Element Six Develop Synthetic Diamonds for Quantum Networks

April 14, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Networking has partnered with Element Six, a De Beers Group division, to create synthetic diamonds that can act as nodes in quantum networks. This collaboration aims to use diamond memory nodes to enable quantum communication to travel long distances...

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Read Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta
Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

April 11, 2023 Equinix

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International...

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Read Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying
Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

April 07, 2023 Amazon AWS

House Bill 2816, which sought to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards to encourage data centers to cut their carbon emissions in Oregon, died in legislative committee this week. Amazon, which aggressively lobbied against the bill, has been cited as one of the major reasons for its defeat....

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Read AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA
AWS inks another PPA in Spain with  Grenergy Renovables SA

AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA

April 07, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energy...

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Read AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region
AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region

AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region

April 06, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has inked a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in New Zealand Mercury to procure wind energy. The giant will procure around half the output from the local energy company's 103MW Turitea South onshore wind farm; which is more than is required to fuel Amazon Web...

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Read Equinix expands footprint in Canada
Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

April 06, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fourth...

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