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Amazon plans four dc campuses in Mesa, Arizona

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has begun plotting for four new data centers in Mesa, Arizona, on land already owned by the company, as it looks to increase its footprints in the East Valley. The company has filed pre-submittal documents with Mesa's planning office for two data centers about four miles ap...

DC Blox completes purchase of 27.5 acres in South Carolina for 45MW DC campus

DC BLOX

Atlanta-based colocation provider DC Blox has completed the purchase of 27.5 acres in Berkeley County, SC, from Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, for a new data center campus. This new facility, to be constructed in the Camp Hall commerce park, will be the...

New York-based IBM spin-out Kyndryl to separate China business in response to changing data laws

Kyndryl

Global IT managed services provider Kyndryl is now considering separating its business in China into a separate entity in response to several geopolitical issues and the changing data laws in China.According to a report from the Financial Times, the IBM spin-out revealed this to some of its em...

Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

Nebraska

Cushman & Wakefield has listed a data center for sale at 256 E. Grant Street in Blair. The asking price for this facility outside Omaha, Nebraska, is listed as $1.76 million on the site and $1.5 million in the sales brochure.The 7,564 sq ft (700 sqm) facility was built on six acres in Wash...

Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

Carbon Streaming Corporation announced it had signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with biochar carbon removal credits from the Waverly Biochar project in Waverly, Virginia. The company noted that the Biochar project would deliver Microsoft up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal cre...

Globe Telecom bags $263m loan for network rollout

Philippines

Philippines telco Globe has secured a $263 million loan with the Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company to finance its network upgrading and debt refinancing. In a press statement, the company had invested $660 million in Capex in the first half of this year. This investment was noted to be 25 ...

Webel to construct new DC in West Bengal, India

India / Bhārata

West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) is considering a new data center in Siliguri, the Indian state of West Bengal. This new data center will be Webel’s third facility focused on promoting the IT and electronics industries in the Indian state.  A senior offi...

North Carolina government funds new Washington-Warren Airport DC

North Carolina

After receiving additional government funding, North Carolina's Washington-Warren Airport is on track to get a new data center campus. This airport in Washington City will get $13.5 million in funding from the state budget.The government funds will be utilized to develop "key infrastructure," ...

Amazon Pours Billions to AI startup Anthropic, Becomes Primary cloud provider

Amazon AWS

Amazon will invest $4 billion in AI startup Antropic, becoming its primary cloud provider. This announcement comes after the giant tech companies worldwide raced to benefit from the breakthroughs Antropic could have on their businesses. Antropic, considered one of the world’s most promising AI...

AI's Growth Drives Energy Demand, Sparking Concerns and Innovations

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is heralded as one of the most transformative technological advancements, comparable to the emergence of the internet. This sentiment is echoed by Wall Street, with the Nasdaq (^IXIC) witnessing a 26% surge this year, largely attributed to the enthusias...

AI Edge chip company Kneron raises additional $49m funds

San Diego

Kneron, a startup developing chips for AI inferencing, has raised $49 million from investors to scale up its hardware-developing efforts. Investors, including Foxconn HH-CTBC Partnership (Foxconn Co-GP Fund) and Alltek, made this additional investment, bringing the total Series B financing to ...

Amazon files to develop 7-building DC campus in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District to develop a seven-building data center campus in Virginia’s Louisa County. In this filing, REB Investment Company LLC and Amazon Data Services seek permission to establish a new data center campus on 153 acres ...

Pi Datacenters to invest in new DC campus in Hyderabad, India

Pi Datacenters Pvt. Ltd

Pi Datacenters has revealed plans to expand operations in India by opening a new data center campus in Hyderabad. This new facility will lead the company's new AI Cloud vertical once completed and will be the company's headquarters. Kalyan Muppaneni, founder and CEO of Pi Datacenters, said to ...

Unisys Corp. to relocate DC campuses within the Minneapolis market

Unisys

Technology company Unisys Corp. revealed its plans to sell its 32-acre data center campus just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and relocate to an undetermined area in the Twin Cities. Shea Kolanowski, Unisys’ deputy chief administrative officer, told BizJournal, “We intend to relocate our asso...

British Land Sells DC Portfolio for £125 million

United Kingdom

UK real estate firm British Land has exchanged contracts to sell a portfolio of data centers and offices in London for £125 million. This deal represented an initial net yield of 4.6 percent, delivering an internal return rate of 8.2 percent per annum since its acquisition in 2007.The company ...

Amazon to Invest in 5 Facility Campus in Ohio

AWS US East (Ohio)

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2020 to expand its footprint around Columbus, Ohio. The New Albany City Council announced it had approved a resolution enabling AWS to proceed with its expansion investment plan. This is only part of Amazon's $7.5 billion invest...

Italian Organizations Consider San Romedio mine for DC Construction

Italy

Some Italian companies have discussed building a data center company in a Dolomite mine. The University of Trento, construction company Covi Costruziono, IT services company Dedagroup, sustainable healthcare provider GPI, and holding company Istituto Atesino di Sviluppo (ISA), are looking to d...

Alligned Reveals New Brownfield Land Acquisition for DC Campus in Ohio

Aligned

On September 25, 2023, Aligned Data Centers announced the acquisition of a new brownfield land in Perkins Township., Northeast Ohio. The firm purchased the 129-acre parcel to construct a new four-building hyperscale data center campus. Aligned said its NEO-01 data center, the first of the four...

CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India

India / Bhārata

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur.CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the camp...

Google data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso passes away

Google

59-year-old data center luminary Luiz André Barroso unexpectedly passed away on September 16, 2023.The DC legend joined Google in 2001 and was fundamental in remodeling the company's DC design, impacting the industry. Before his journey with Google, Barroso worked at Digital Equipment Corporat...