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KPMG will invest $2 billion with Microsoft in AI and cloud services

KPMG plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in partnership with Microsoft. The global expansion of the 'Big Four' accounting firm's relationship with Microsoft is anticipated to generate up to $12 billion in revenue over the next ...

July 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft intends to invest $230 million in an additional data center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft intends to construct another data center in the San Antonio, Texas, region. The corporation stated in applications with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, initially reported by the San Antonio Business Journal, that the project would cost $230 million.The company inten...

July 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

QTS acquires 400 acres in South Carolina's York County

A new campus for its data centers is being built by QTS on 400 acres of land in York County, South Carolina. Citing York County real estate documents, BizJournal reports that two entities linked with QTS Realty Trust LLC have acquired nearly 400 acres off S.C. Highway 274 for more than $11.2 m...

July 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Microsoft pushes forward with data center projects in Brazil

Microsoft has shared its plans for further expansion in Brazil, with a new data center in the Campinas area of São Paulo state, Brazil. Located in Hortolândia, details on the facility obtained by BNAmericas, reveal the giant’s plans for the installation of a data center on greenfield land wit...

July 26, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas

According to reports, Microsoft has been granted permission to construct a 170MW gas power facility for its Dublin data center expansion. As per a report from Business Post, the cloud giant applied in December to construct a gas power facility for its $1 billion Dublin data center campus curre...

July 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site.According to r...

July 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia

Microsoft has plans for data centers in Sterling, Virginia. BizJournal reports that Microsoft purchased a 14-acre parcel at 23540 Pebble Run Place for approximately $15 million last month, citing Loudoun County property records. Data centers are already legally permitted on the property, which...

July 17, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft proposes data center in Sumaré, Brazil

Microsoft intends to build a new data center in the Brazilian state of So Paulo. Microsoft is constructing a new data center in Sumaré, presumably expanding its Azure cloud region in So Paulo. The facility will be adjacent to Santo Antonio Park along the Venancio Calegari Municipal Road in No...

July 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft officially announces Kemps Creek campus, drops Lane Cove project

Microsoft has announced further expansion in Sydney, with plans for a new data center campus. Located in Kemps Creek in Western Sydney, the facility will be designed in collaboration with Indigenous-owned Indigital, to shape the site’s exterior artwork and landscape design in a way that “supp...

July 10, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Stream DC files for 200MW campus expansion in Phoenix

Stream Data Centers has submitted plans to build a 2 million-square-foot data center campus in the Goodyear neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. Last week, the Goodyear Planning and Zoning Commission approved Stream's request to rezone 104 acres on Litchfield Road and Lower Buckeye Road from I-1 ...

July 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Stream Data Centers

Amazon purchases 25 acres for a data center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon has purchased a 25-acre parcel of land in Fairfax County, Virginia, close to several of the company's current and planned data centers. BisNow reports that Amazon Data Services Inc. recently paid $34.44 million to acquire a 24.6-acre property at 44150 Wade Drive in Chantilly from Firefo...

July 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

CyrusOne announces plans for new Frankfurt data center

CyrusOne has announced its plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA6, the facility is located in Germany’s “Digital City” and will offer a total IT capacity of 72 MW delivered over four floors, with each level offering 18 MW. The company shared that the acquired Eu...

July 07, 2023

CyrusOne

Vantage appeals application rejection in Dublin, Ireland

Vantage Data Centers is appealing to An Bord Pleanála over the decision to refuse its data center application in Dublin, Ireland. The application for a two-story, 12,893 sqm development in the West Dublin area of Clondalkin was rejected on both power capacity and environmental grounds, with t...

July 06, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Data center expansion targetted in Elk Grove, Chicago

The Elk Grove area of Chicago is being targeted as a site of data center expansion by numerous operators. Aligned, Stream and Nexstar are all seeking to develop data centers in the area. Aligned, for example, is planning to demolish three office buildings it acquired for $29 million, along No...

July 06, 2023

Stream Data Centers

Microsoft partners with Constellation for hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement

Microsoft has teamed up with Constellation to reduce the carbon footprint of one of its data centers in Boydton, Virginia. By signing an hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement with the energy producer, Microsoft's Boydton facility will receive up to 35 percent in environmental attribute...

July 04, 2023

Microsoft Azure

H5 Data Centers to expand its Phoenix data center

H5 Data Centers has announced a 30,000 sqft expansion of its Phoenix colocation facility. Located at 2600 W. Germann Road in Chandler, AZ, this expansion is part of the company's third phase of development at the 180,000-square-foot data center.Further to this square-footage expansion, phase ...

July 04, 2023

H5 Data Centers

French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction

To obtain planning approvals for a data center in Paris, France, CyrusOne had to fight a legal battle. The Versailles Administrative Court overturned the local mayor's orders to prevent the issuance of two building permits. The company intends to convert a former logistics facility in the Vill...

July 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CyrusOne

Microsoft acquires 200 acres in New Albany for development of a data center

Microsoft has purchased a property in New Albany, Ohio, to probably construct a data center. Microsoft has reportedly acquired nearly 200 acres near Beech Road for a data center, as reported by the Newark Advocate. The Licking County Auditor's Office verified Microsoft paid $56.9 million to MB...

June 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia

AWS is planning a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Located in west Sydney, under the program name Project Echidna, the facility will see an investment of AU$300 million (US$200m). Built across two stories, the facility will offer 35.2MW of capacity on 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft), and is loc...

June 27, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities

According to a news release from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Amazon intends to invest approximately $8 billion over six years in growing its data center business in central Ohio. Per a press release on Monday, the $7.8 billion initiative marks the second-largest private sector investment in Ohi...

June 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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