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AWS Launches Spanish Cloud Region

AWS Launches Spanish Cloud Region

November 17, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has launched a new region in Spain. With this launch, the company has opened its eight regions in the continent. Like AWS’ other regions, the Spanish region also launched with three availability zones. AWS had announced in the past that it would invest up to €2.5 billion...

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Read Amazon follows tech industry with new round of layoffs
Amazon follows tech industry with new round of layoffs

Amazon follows tech industry with new round of layoffs

November 16, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon is the latest tech company to make big layoffs. The giant is making around 10,000 cuts to employees in corporate and technology roles, in what the New York Times has determined represents about 3% of its corporate staff. More broadly, the cuts represent less than 1% of the global workforce...

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Read Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas
Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas

Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas

November 14, 2022 Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has signed a PPA with Italian energy firm Enel Américas for data center power. The firm will reportedly provide the data center company with 1.6GW of power for its facilities across Chile, Peru, and Colombia, in a deal that represents 10% of Enel Américas' total existing...

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Read Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America
Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America

Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America

November 11, 2022 Ascenty

Ascenty has announced its plans to invest R$1.5 billion ($290 million) in Latin America. The funds will be used to develop five data centers in the region. The new facilities will be located in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. Upon completion, Ascenty’s data center count in the region will hit 33....

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Read Piemonte Holdings' Elea Acquires TIM Brasil's Facility in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Piemonte Holdings' Elea Acquires TIM Brasil's Facility in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Piemonte Holdings' Elea Acquires TIM Brasil's Facility in Porto Alegre, Brazil

October 30, 2022 Elea Data Centers

Brazilian data center company Elea Digital has bought a data center facility in Porto Alegre from TIM Brasil. The facility is called POA2, and its first phase has a capacity for 500 racks. Elea Digital is owned by Piemonte Holdings, and it says it plans to expand the data center in the future....

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Read AWS Buys 50+ acres in Thane, India For Possible Data Center Development
AWS Buys 50+ acres in Thane, India For Possible Data Center Development

AWS Buys 50+ acres in Thane, India For Possible Data Center Development

October 28, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web services has acquired a parcel of land in India. The company bought over 50 acres of land in Thane district, Mumbai for Rs 1,800 crore ($218 million). It is expected that AWS will build a data center on the site. The site was acquired from Ananta Landmarks, a subsidiary of real estate...

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Read AWS To Launch Cloud Region in Bangkok, Thailand
AWS To Launch Cloud Region in Bangkok, Thailand

AWS To Launch Cloud Region in Bangkok, Thailand

October 27, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced its plan to open a new cloud region in Bangkok, Thailand. The new region will have three Availability Zones, which are custom with most AWS regions. The region is also part of AWS' plan to invest over $5 billion in Thailand in the next 15 years. AWS did not...

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Read AWS Files to Develop Three Data Centers in Northern Virginia
AWS Files to Develop Three Data Centers in Northern Virginia

AWS Files to Develop Three Data Centers in Northern Virginia

October 26, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services plans to develop three more data centers in Northern Virginia's Stone Ridge. BizJournal was the first to report the development. AWS is looking to develop the data centers on its 90-acre land at 42139 Reeds Farm Lane, southwest of Dulles International Airport in Loudoun...

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Read Elea Digital to develop data center in Porto Alegre
Elea Digital to develop data center in Porto Alegre

Elea Digital to develop data center in Porto Alegre

October 20, 2022 Elea Data Centers

Elea Digital, a Brazilian edge data center company, has announced that it is developing a new data center following the purchase of a hyperconnected property owned by TIM, in Porto Alegre (RS). The company has outlined that it expects the project to become the largest data center in the south of...

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Read AWS partners with concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centers
AWS partners with concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centers

AWS partners with concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centers

October 14, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced a new collaboration project with American Rock Products (ARP), a concrete company, to develop a concrete mix for data centers that is more sustainable. Labeled the most destructive material on earth, concrete is fundamentally unsustainable and a significant contributor to...

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Read Amazon's data center emissions rise with Oregon expansion
Amazon's data center emissions rise with Oregon expansion

Amazon's data center emissions rise with Oregon expansion

October 14, 2022 Amazon AWS

According to a report by The Oregonian, Amazon’s data center expansion in Eastern Oregon has caused carbon emissions to soar in recent years. Oregon’s Morrow and Umatilla counties are the locations targeted by Amazon, in part due to local tax breaks, which have seen Amazon rake up tax breaks...

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Read Scala Data Centers To Invest $48M in Developing a Data Center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Scala Data Centers To Invest $48M in Developing a Data Center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Scala Data Centers To Invest $48M in Developing a Data Center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

October 11, 2022 Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced its plans to develop a new facility in Porto Alegre, South Brazil. The Latin American data center company plans to invest R$250 million (US$48m) to bring the data center to life. Scala plans to use its new FastDeploy modular design for the data center. The...

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Read Equinix To Invest $74m in Developing its First Facility in Jakarta, Indonesia
Equinix To Invest $74m in Developing its First Facility in Jakarta, Indonesia

Equinix To Invest $74m in Developing its First Facility in Jakarta, Indonesia

October 11, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has revealed its plans to develop a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the company's first facility in the Asian country. Equinix noted that it would be investing $74m in developing the new IBX facility. The data center will be located in the Central Business District of...

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Read Ascenty launches fifth data center at its Hortolândia complex
Ascenty launches fifth data center at its Hortolândia complex

Ascenty launches fifth data center at its Hortolândia complex

October 10, 2022 Ascenty

Ascenty recently inaugurated its fifth data center in São Paulo, Brazil, at its Hortolândia complex. The facility, spanning 21,000 sqm (226,050 sq ft), offers space for 3,300 racks and 31MW of capacity. So far, the company has invested R$350 million (US$67.3m) in the campus and expects this...

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Read Scala Data Centers to build the largest data center campus in Chile after obtaining environmental license
Scala Data Centers to build the largest data center campus in Chile after obtaining environmental license

Scala Data Centers to build the largest data center campus in Chile after obtaining environmental license

October 10, 2022 Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has received the environmental license to build the largest data center campus in Chile. The campus, which is scheduled to start operations in the first quarter of 2024, will have a combined 120MW of total capacity, with a projected initial delivery of...

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Read Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power
Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power

Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power

September 30, 2022 Equinix

Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and...

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Read Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects
Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

September 23, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include three...

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Read AWS files to build data center in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas
AWS files to build data center in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas

AWS files to build data center in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas

September 19, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its filing to build a new facility in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas. The data center will reportedly span 30,000 square foot (2,790 sq m), and work will commence early next year, with a view for completion in 2024. The facility is known as ​​the Ezell Drive Campus and according...

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Read Equinix expands its ZH4 IBX facility in Zurich
Equinix expands its ZH4 IBX facility in Zurich

Equinix expands its ZH4 IBX facility in Zurich

September 16, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced the expansion of one of its data centers in Zurich, Switzerland. Its ZH4 IBX facility, located at Josefstrasse 225, will see the addition of 850 square meters (9,150 sq ft) of whitespace and more than 200 cabinets. The facility first opened in 2010, and since then, it has...

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Read Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region
Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region

September 05, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy...

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