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Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas

It has been revealed that in Oregon, Amazon is planning to power at least three of its Oregon data centers with natural gas fuel cells. That said, the number could be as high as seven. Amazon proposes the fuel cell technology it will use will oxidize the fossil fuel to generate electricity. Ho...

February 20, 2023

Amazon AWS

Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

CyrusOne is building a data center in Quincy, Washington. The corporation has a 45-acre block of land in the city of Washington State and has made it known that it intends to construct a campus there with built-to-suit buildings and a capacity of up to 96MW. The Columbia Basin Herald noted ...

February 20, 2023

CyrusOne

Amazon Approved For Warrenton Data Facility in Fauquier County, Virginia

Amazon has been approved to build a data center in Fauquier, Virginia. Amazon Data Services' proposal for a special-use permit to build a 220,000-square-foot data center near the junction of Blackwell Road and Lee Highway in Warrenton was approved this week by the Warrenton Town Council 4-3. A...

February 16, 2023

Amazon AWS

Residents raise concern about proposed data center facility in New Albany

According to reports, residents in Albany are concerned about an Amazon-proposed data center project, which outlines plans for sizable data centers on both sides of Beech Road. Back in January, the giant acquired nearly 400 acres of land at three connected plots on Beech Road; the development ...

February 12, 2023

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling ca...

February 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

Microsoft will construct a new Azure cloud region and data center in Saudi Arabia. This week, the company revealed plans to build a new cloud data facility in Saudi Arabia. The news was made at the Riyadh conference LEAP 2023. Microsoft stated that the new cloud region will provide enterpri...

February 07, 2023

Microsoft Azure

AWS to use low-carbon EcoPact concrete in new facilities in North Virginia

In Northern Virginia, home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world, AWS has announced that it has signed an agreement with Holcim US, and Baker Concrete Construction to utilize EcoPact concrete for the construction of a number of data centers. The cement and concrete industry...

February 03, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon procures record amount of renewable energy

Amazon has announced that it is increasing its renewable energy capacity, consolidating its position as the world's largest buyer of renewable energy. According to the giant, its capacity increased by 8.3GW through 133 new projects in 11 countries during 2022. This means that its portfolio st...

February 03, 2023

Amazon AWS

AWS launches Local Zone Edge locations in Nigeria, Peru, and Mexico

AWS is expanding its Local Zones offerings in Nigeria, Peru, and Mexico. The company has announced that new Local Zones will be located in Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro, respectively. These zones will offer a range of services for latency-sensitive applications in locations where the company doe...

February 01, 2023

Amazon AWS

AWS files for expansion in Dublin, environmental group opposes citing emissions

Amazon is seeking expansion in Dublin, Ireland, having filed for permission from Fingal County Council for an additional three more data centers at one of its campuses, located at Cruiserath Road. A decision on the application is expected in February. Filed by Universal Developers LLC for Amaz...

February 01, 2023

Amazon AWS

Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding in Iowa, following the issuing of a permit, valued at $255 million for a data center at 5855 SW Kerry St. As per the permit, the facility will span 250,000 sq ft.Described as the DSM 12 Buildout and located in West Des Moines, the SW Kerry Street s...

January 31, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Melbourne Becomes AWS's Second Australian Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a cloud region in Melbourne, Australia. This marks the second cloud region AWS has in Australia, following the launch of Sydney in 2012. The facility was first announced in December 2020. Littlepay's CEO, Amin Shayan, is ecstatic about establishing a se...

January 27, 2023

Amazon AWS

Microsoft and AWS to expand data center footprint in Telangana

Despite both tech giants making significant layoffs in recent months, both Microsoft and AWS have announced plans to boost investment and data center portfolios in the Telangana region of India. The former is set to double the number of facilities it is building in the region, while AWS has an...

January 25, 2023

Amazon AWS

CyrusOne acquires a 57.6-acre land parcel in Loudoun County, Virginia

CyrusOne has purchased a 57.6-acre land parcel in Loudoun County, Virginia. The location of the parcel is near the intersection of the Dulles Greenway toll road and Belmont Ridge Road. This recent land acquisition is part of the company’s global growth and expansion plans.Speaking about this,...

January 23, 2023

CyrusOne

Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

Suncorp Group and Microsoft have announced a three-year agreement, which will witness Suncorp increase its cloud footprint in Microsoft Azure while it winds down on-premise data centers. Suncorp has outlined its intentions to migrate 90% of workloads to the cloud by the end of this year. Its r...

January 19, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Local Zones in Chile and Australia

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of two new Local Zones, one in Perth Australia, and the other in Santiago, Chile.In the announcement, the company outlined: “AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Perth and Santiago. You can now use these Local Zones to deli...

January 13, 2023

Amazon AWS

Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

Following an extensive investigation by ProPublica, it has been found that Microsoft and local officials in rural Virginia helped erase a historic black cemetery by downplaying its cultural significance in order to pursue data center development.Back in 2014, when the giant was looking to expa...

January 10, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Harrison Street & 1547 CSR Buys Texas Carrier Hotel

In McAllen, Texas, Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street have bought a carrier hotel. The two corporations have acquired Chase Tower in McAllen, a 17-story building with a total area of around 209,000 square feet. The specifics of the transaction were not made pu...

January 02, 2023

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Amazon postpones Virginia campus

Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been ...

December 19, 2022

Amazon AWS

CyrusOne accelerates carbon neutral pledge

Data center firm CyrusOne, a member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is accelerating its carbon-neutral pledge by ten years. The company is now promising to achieve this green goal by 2030 rather than 2040.According to the company, it will achieve this goal by imp...

December 12, 2022

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