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Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

May 08, 2023

Google

NextDC Reveals New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan Data Center Initiatives

Plans for new data center projects in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan have been subtly added to NextDC's website. The prospective plans to expand in New Zealand were initially reported by Reseller News a few weeks ago. They stated that the company had purchased several blocks of land in centr...

May 08, 2023

NEXTDC

Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total i...

May 05, 2023

Google

Navigating evolving data center security risks and requirements

In recent years, data center security has come to the fore, with an increase in firmware attacks and security failures. Research shows that 83 percent of businesses have experienced firmware attacks in recent years, and in February, GDS and STT GDC hit the headlines when hackers compromised tw...

May 03, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Second Bankruptcy Filing by INAP Since 2020

INAP has once again filed for bankruptcy. This week, the company voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 as part of its debt restructuring statement. The company stated that INAP has freely filed motions under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delawa...

May 03, 2023

HorizonIQ

Vantage Data Centers Plans £250 Million Data Center Fac in London

With a £250 million investment, Vantage Data Centers announced the creation of a second data center campus (LHR2) in London. Vantage Data Centers previously announced the 48MW facility (LHR1) in London for £500 million. Beginning in early 2025, LHR2 will be a single data center that offers cus...

May 01, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Keppel Data Centres and Woodside partner on liquid hydrogen supply

Keppel Corporation has signed an agreement with Australia's Woodside Energy, which could see it supply 1,000 tonnes (1,100 tons) of liquid hydrogen a day from Woodside's portfolio of planned production facilities, to Keppel's data center in Singapore. This deal follows a series of successful ...

April 28, 2023

Keppel Data Center REIT

Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak

The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the f...

April 28, 2023

Google

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in...

April 27, 2023

Equinix

Glencar Secures Vantage Data Centers London Facility contract

Glencar, a prominent UK & Ireland construction firm that has recently been listed among Europe's fastest-growing companies, disclosed that it had been granted a contract to construct the new LHR21 facility for Vantage Data Centers at the company's second London Campus near Heathrow Airport...

April 27, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage plans expansion in San Jose, California

Plans for a new data center in San Jose, California, have been proposed by Vantage Data Centers, as stated in city planning documents. Located at 105 Nortech Parkway in San Jose's Alviso district, the facility, if given the green light, would be based on a 9.8-acre site. That said, further det...

April 26, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) launches fourth data center in Inzai

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has announced that it has begun work on its fourth data center in Inzai City, Japan. The new facility is located just 600m from Colt Data Centre Services' existing Inzai Campus, and is the second development under the joint venture between Fidelity Investm...

April 26, 2023

Colt Data Centre Services

Vantage Data Centers expands in London with second campus

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its data center footprint in the UK with a new data center campus in London. The campus, LHR2, will be the company's second in London, based at Park Royal in west London and will see an investment of £250 million ($310.1m).The campus will feature a single dat...

April 26, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Stack Plans to Setting up Two San Jose Data Centers

Stack has applied for approval to expand its San Jose, California data center campus. This week, the San Jose City planning commission will consider Stack's request to construct two data centers at 2400 Ringwood Avenue and 1880 Fortune Drive in Santa Clara County, as first reported by SF Yimby...

April 26, 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Empyrion DC Raises Funds For Gangnam Data Center Building

The intended construction of Empyrion DC's Gangnam Data Center (GDC) has been financed by three South Korean financial institutions. KEB Hana Bank, Hana Capital Co Ltd, along with the National Credit Union Federation of Korea will provide the loan, which KEB Hana Bank and Hyundai Asset Managem...

April 26, 2023

Empyrion Digital

Google signs new PPA with EDPR

Google has announced that it has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), for solar energy in the US. This deal is reportedly the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for distributed generation signed between two companies in the US.Over 80 distr...

April 25, 2023

Google

Google merges DeepMind and Brain

Google has announced a merger between its DeepMind subsidiary and Google Research's Brain division, dubbed 'Google DeepMind, as it pursues its big AI push. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined that this move will "significantly accelerate" the company's AI progress. This move may co...

April 25, 2023

Google

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore win...

April 19, 2023

Google

Empyrion DC Secures Funding for Gangnam Data Centre Construction in Seoul

A syndicated loan has been obtained by Empyrion DC, a portfolio business of Seraya Partners, from KEB Hana Bank, Hana Capital Co Ltd, and the National Credit Union Federation of Korea to fund the development of the Gangnam Data Centre (GDC) in Seoul, South Korea. The funding from the loan w...

April 19, 2023

Empyrion Digital

Digital Edge announces groundbreaking of Incheon data center

This week, Digital Edge announced that it had broken ground on its new SEL2 data center in Incheon, South Korea. The facility was first announced back in April last year, and will see around one trillion won ($800m) invested in the project.The company is working in partnership with SK ecoplant...

April 14, 2023

Digital Edge DC

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