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Read A carbon-neutral future: Which companies are committing and delivering?
A carbon-neutral future: Which companies are committing and delivering?

A carbon-neutral future: Which companies are committing and delivering?

July 21, 2021 Amazon AWS

In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power. Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...

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Read Amazon in negotiations to build data center in Ceará, Brazil
Amazon in negotiations to build data center in Ceará, Brazil

Amazon in negotiations to build data center in Ceará, Brazil

July 20, 2021 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it is in negotiations with officials in Ceará, Brazil, to build a data center and a logistics warehouse in Maracanaú, in the region of Fortaleza. According to Diario do Nordeste, it is expected that an agreement with the state government will be closed in the second half...

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Read AWS Planning 3 new data centers in San Antonio
AWS Planning 3 new data centers in San Antonio

AWS Planning 3 new data centers in San Antonio

July 13, 2021 Amazon AWS

Planning documents recently revealed that Amazon is developing three data centers in Texas. The documents disclosed the project’s name as “Rockfish” and unveiled a plan to build a $56 million, 109,600 sqft (10,100 sq m) data center located on 11625 Old Corpus Christi Highway. This is not the only...

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Read AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas
AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas

AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas

July 08, 2021 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastructures...

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Read Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects
Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

June 23, 2021 Amazon AWS

Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada. With...

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Read AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers
AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

June 17, 2021 Amazon AWS

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

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Read AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)
AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

May 28, 2021 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago....

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Read Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2
Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

April 26, 2021 Equinix Seattle SE2

Quintillion has announced plans to connect its new Arctic ground station to Equinix’s Seattle data center. It will extend its network via a subsea fiber network, where, in Seattle, it will connect to Equinix Fabric, a software-defined interconnection service. Located 72 degrees north, at...

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Read Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington
Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

March 29, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has purchased 170 acres of underdeveloped land north of Pangborn Memorial Airport for $19.3 million. The investment could well rise to over $1 billion in the next five years to build a multi-phase data center. Microsoft has also started leveling the construction site in preparation for...

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Read Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus
Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

May 21, 2020 Sabey Intergate.Quincy

Sabey announced that it has added a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute node to its Intergate.Quincy data center campus in central Washington, enabling Sabey’s customers to create private connections between their IT environment and Microsoft Azure and Office 365.Sabey Press Release on May 21st 2020

Read Digital Realty gains control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building
Digital Realty gains control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building

Digital Realty gains control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building

February 12, 2020 Westin Building Seattle

Digital Realty will gain control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building. Digital announced it will acquire an additional 49% stake in the Westin Building Exchange from Clise Properties. Digital already had a 49% stake in the project which it acquired in 2006. For more info please...

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Read Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million
Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million

Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million

June 04, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

The Puget Sound Business Journal Reports that Microsoft has acquired the property that holds its Redmond Ridge data center and offices. The report is below. Microsoft paid nearly $6.2 million to acquire the site of the company's data center in Redmond, King County property records show.The...

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Read Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle
Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle

Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle

April 15, 2019 Westin Building Seattle

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP has extended its US presence from Hillsboro, OR to the Westin Building Exchange (WBX) carrier hotel and data center in Seattle, WA to support its clients’ capacity requirements between New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Launched in July 2018, the Hawaiki...

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Read ScaleMatrix Open Its First Data Center in Seattle
ScaleMatrix Open Its First Data Center in Seattle

ScaleMatrix Open Its First Data Center in Seattle

March 08, 2019 ScaleMatrix Seattle

ScaleMatrix has opened its newest data center, operated by Centeris, in the southern part of metro Seattle. The new facility is ScaleMatrix’s first expansion in the Pacific Northwest and will provide a plethora of services for potential enterprise clients. The New ScaleMatrix Site will be at...

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Read GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA
GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA

GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA

January 29, 2019 NTT Data Quincy

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, continues its strategy of investing in the infrastructure of technology with the recent acquisition of two technology intensive properties from NTT DATA located in Plano, Texas and Quincy, Washington. The Plano property is an...

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Read Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington
## Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building.

Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus i...

Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington

August 22, 2018 Sabey Intergate.Columbia

Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building. Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus in East Wenatchee, Washington. Building D will span 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq m) across four data...

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Read H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Intuit Inc. Data Center
H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired from Intuit Inc. a 240,000 square-foot, purpose-built data center in Quincy, Washington. T...

H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Intuit Inc. Data Center

July 18, 2018 H5 Quincy

H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired from Intuit Inc. a 240,000 square-foot, purpose-built data center in Quincy, Washington. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers’ national portfolio to 12 data centers and compliments its...

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Read GI Partners Acquires KOMO Plaza in Seattle, Washington
> SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- GI Partners ("GI"), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today it has acquired KOMO Plaza, a state-of-the-art carrier hotel and data center f...

GI Partners Acquires KOMO Plaza in Seattle, Washington

January 06, 2017 KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza)

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- GI Partners ("GI"), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today it has acquired KOMO Plaza, a state-of-the-art carrier hotel and data center facility located at 100 and 140 Fourth Avenue North in Seattle, Washington for $276 million. The highly...

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Read H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Seattle Data Center
H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Seattle Data Center

H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Seattle Data Center

January 27, 2011 H5 Seattle

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers (H5), a national owner and operator of wholesale data centers, announced today that it has acquired 1000 Denny Way, a Seattle data center and headquarters of The Seattle Times. Located in downtown Seattle near South Lake Union, the 285,000 square-foot data center and...

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