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Culpeper County sued by neighbors over rezoning

According to reports, residents in Culpeper County, Virginia, are suing the county board after it approved the rezoning of a 230-acre property for an AWS data center. The giant is seeking to build two six-story data centers, a 12-acre power station and new power lines, however, six landowners ...

May 10, 2022

Amazon AWS

INAP Sells Its Network Business To Unitas Global

Unitas Global has bought INAP’s network business. By so doing, INAP will now become Unitas Global’s customer. Per the agreement, Unitas will take over INAP’s routing software called Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO). MIRO will be integrated into Unitas’ global network Unitas Reach. Th...

May 10, 2022

HorizonIQ

Triple Double and Stonerock Capital Partners Acquire Two Properties in Miami Including a Cogent-occupied Facility

Stonerock Capital Partners and Triple Double have completed the acquisition of two properties in downtown Miami. The properties are located at 200 SE 1st Street and 44 W. Flagler Street. They paid $56.7 million for both properties. The 200 SE 1st property is a 12-story, 13,200 square meter ...

May 09, 2022

Cogent Communications

Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new PPA with AES for renewable energy to fuel its facilities in California. The PPA is a 20-year “highly customized agreement” which will see Microsoft partially match its load at its California-based data centers. The energy from AES will be sourc...

May 06, 2022

Microsoft Azure

NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Navi Mumbai, India. It also opened another data center in Mumbai recently without fanfare. The Navi Mumbai facility is called NAV1A, located in the Mahape area. The eight-story data center spans 400,000 square feet, and it has 45MW in po...

May 05, 2022

NTT

AWS Expanding Presence in Oregon with Four More Data Centers in Morrow County

Amazon Web Service (AWS) has plans to develop up to four data centers in Boardman, Oregon. The company filed with Oregon’s Marrow County to develop a data center campus on a 127-acre site. The site is located on the west side of Bombing Range Road, a mile away from Interstate 84 Interchange an...

May 05, 2022

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Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microso...

May 03, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon To Develop New Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon is going to develop another data center in Chantilly, Virginia. The news was first broken by BizJournal. However, it has now been confirmed with local county records that the company has been granted permission to develop the data center at 3980 Virginia Mallory Drive. The filing did...

May 03, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for impr...

May 02, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Planned AWS data center in Dublin to go ahead despite challenge

After a prolonged battle by charity An Taisce to defeat Amazon's Co Meath 48 megawatt (MW) data center proposal at the IDA Business & Technology Park, it has been announced that the giant's plans have been given the green light. The charity had opposed the facility based on environmental c...

April 29, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS Given Green Light To Purchase Land For New Zealand Cloud Region cloud region

It is good news for Amazon Web Services as it has been granted permission to acquire land for its planned data center development in New Zealand. In September last year, the company revealed plans to launch its new Cloud Region in the country in 2024. Consistent with Microsoft’s previous regio...

April 29, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

Microsoft is set to buy over 100 acres in Malaga, Washington. According to the county's officials, the company will be using the land to develop data centers. Commissioners of the Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority signed a sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft for 102.5 acres of l...

April 28, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place...

April 27, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the 4...

April 27, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon announces 37 new renewable energy projects globally

Amazon recently announced it has invested in 37 renewable energy projects across the globe. Located across the US, Spain, France, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates, these projects will total 3.5 GW, bringing its global renewable energy portfolio to 15.7GW. Included...

April 22, 2022

Amazon AWS

CyrusOne collaborates with Gexa Energy for wind and solar energy

CyrusOne, a signatory and founding member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is collaborating with Gexa Energy following the signing of a new power purchase agreement (PPA). Through this agreement, the data center company will be provided with wind and solar power ...

April 22, 2022

CyrusOne

VPLS Buys Carrier-1's Facility in Dallas, Texas

VPLS has completed the acquisition of Carrier-1’s 106,000 square feet data center in Dallas, Texas. The facility offers 10MW in capacity, and it will become VPLS’ fourth data center in Dallas. The CEO of VPLS, Arman Khalili, said the company is happy to welcome the employees and customers o...

April 22, 2022

Evocative

Intel announces net-zero goal

Intel has announced its pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its global emissions by 2040, which it said it will achieve through a number of interim milestones. One of these milestones will be to secure 100% renewable energy for its entire global operations. It will also...

April 21, 2022

Intel

DataBank Is Expanding its SNA2 Facility

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SNA2 data center in Irvine, California. The expansion will see the company add 4MW of critical power and 24,000 square feet (2,200 square meters) of raised floor space. The facility currently offers 4MW of critical power and 3,100 square meter...

April 20, 2022

DataBank

Amazon announces plans for data center campus in California

AWS is exploring the development of a new data center on a $31.3 million 56-acre plot in the City of Gilroy, California, which it bought in 2020. Documents have already been filed with the city and outlined that AWS wants to build two 49MW data centers buildings on the site. This would total ...

April 19, 2022

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