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Read NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia
NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia

NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia

June 16, 2022 NTT

NTT Ltd. Has revealed that it had completed the acquisition of 103 acres of land in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. According to reports, the company paid around $257.4 million to Lerner Enterprises for the land. NTT will be using the land acquired to develop a data center campus. The company is...

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Read Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta
Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

June 16, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 300,000...

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Read Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development
Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

June 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 million...

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Read Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future
Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

June 15, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its plans to launch hundreds of Local Zones to expand its Edge cloud network extensively. Local Zones serve as Edge locations hosting applications that need low latency to final users or on-premises installations. Some of the services the zone offers include database, storage,...

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Read Material and labor shortages in the data center
Material and labor shortages in the data center

Material and labor shortages in the data center

June 14, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,'...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica
Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

June 10, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in July....

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Read NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan
NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

June 09, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced that it has signed a PPA through which it will procure solar energy in Japan. Clean Energy Connect Co Ltd is the partner who will deploy solar power generating capacity for the company, and assist the group in achieving its aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The project is...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

June 09, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data center...

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Read Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility
Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

June 09, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it will be developing its third data center in Mumbai, India. The data center giant said it would invest over $86 million to develop the data center. According to the company, the data center will be housed on four-acre land. The data center will be located in...

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Read AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia
AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia

AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia

June 09, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services plans to develop a new data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia. The company has already filed with officials to develop a single-story, 220,000 square feet (20,400 square meters) data center at the intersection of Lee Highway and Blackwell Road in Warrenton town. AWS...

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Read CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers
CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

June 09, 2022 CoreSite

CoreSite has integrated three data centers from American Tower into its data center portfolio. The data centers are located in Florida and Georgia. The three data centers are Orlando OR1, located at 9701 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando, Atlanta AT1, located at 55 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta), and...

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Read Prime Data Centers to expand in LA
Prime Data Centers  to expand in LA

Prime Data Centers to expand in LA

June 08, 2022 Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers is to open a new hyperscale datacenter in Los Angeles after acquiring a 4.5-acre parcel, which is presently occupied by an industrial building, it has been announced. The facility will have a capacity of 33MW and be located in Vernon, Southern California. The data center plans...

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Read Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland
Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

June 08, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions...

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Read CIM Group Invests $355m in Novva Data Centers
CIM Group Invests $355m in Novva Data Centers

CIM Group Invests $355m in Novva Data Centers

June 02, 2022 Novva Data Centers

CIM Group has announced that it is pumping $355 million into Novva Data Centers. The fund will be geared towards achieving Novva’s goal of offering 1,000MW of designed data center capacity in the next five years. Novva Data Centers was launched in 2020 with a $100m backing from CIM Group. At the...

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Read AWS, biometrics and human rights
AWS, biometrics and human rights

AWS, biometrics and human rights

May 27, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS is under pressure to drop a contract it holds with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will see it host the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database, which, according to a recent report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, holds...

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Read Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro
Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

May 27, 2022 Intel

Intel has announced that it is developing a $700 million research lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, which will focus on sustainable data center technology. To be located at the company’s Jones Farm campus, the lab will span 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sqm) and is expected to open next year. According to the...

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Read Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs
Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

May 20, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards...

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Read AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio
AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

May 19, 2022 Amazon AWS

BizJournal reports that Amazon Web Services is looking to develop a third data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. Hilliard’s economic development director, David Meadows, told BizJournal, that AWS will start developing a 151-acre site located at 4120 Scioto Darby Road, near I-270. The planned data...

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Read GI Partners Buys Sentinel's 22262 Cloud Plaza in Sterling, Virginia
GI Partners Buys Sentinel's 22262 Cloud Plaza in Sterling, Virginia

GI Partners Buys Sentinel's 22262 Cloud Plaza in Sterling, Virginia

May 19, 2022 GI Partners

GI Partners has completed the acquisition of a data center in Sterling, Virginia. The investment firm announced that it acquired the 22262 Cloud Plaza from Sentinel Data Centers. The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal. 22262 Cloud Plaza was first launched and fully commissioned in...

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Read DataBank To Develop a 40MW Data Center at Newly Acquired Property
DataBank To Develop a 40MW Data Center at Newly Acquired Property

DataBank To Develop a 40MW Data Center at Newly Acquired Property

May 18, 2022 DataBank

DataBank has announced the acquisition of an existing data center and 18-acre land in Atlanta, Georgia. The property acquired is located at 200 Selig Drive, Atlanta. Although the company did not reveal the transaction terms, CoStar reports that DataBank paid $10.9 million for the property. The...

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