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American Real Estate Partners (AREP) launches a new data center division called PowerHouse Data Centers

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that it has launched a new data center division named PowerHouse Data Centers, with Luke Kipfer as Vice President of Data Center Development and Construction and Jarrett Appleby as Data Center Strategy Consultant and Senior Advisor. According...

July 28, 2022

Northern Virginia

Climate neutral data center pact members to cut water use to 400ml per kWh by 2040

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP), a group of data center operators which includes 90% of the European data center sector, recently pledged to cut their water use by a maximum of 400ml per kWh of computer power by 2040. This proposal was taken to the European Commission in its third...

July 27, 2022

Europe

Irish Premier Micheál Martin says no data center moratoriums ahead

According to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, despite EirGrid warning that data centers are an energy drain and could also prevent the country from reaching its sustainability goals, there will be no data center moratoriums ahead. This news comes following the latest report from the Environmental Pro...

July 26, 2022

Republic of Ireland

JLL's new report on sustainability reveals there's room for improvement in the APAC region

According to a recent report by real estate consultant JLL, which surveyed 505 data centers across 13 countries in the Asia Pacific region, data center operators are still failing to take charge of their sustainability pledges. While 85% of data center managers believe that sustainability will...

July 25, 2022

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus

According to Cinco Dias, Spanish data center developer Xdata is looking to offload a stake in its company to help fund its 100MW Madrid data center campus development. The company has reportedly contacted CBRE and Morgan Stanley to seek an investor. Stoneshield established XData Properties in ...

July 25, 2022

Madrid

Noise pollution from Prince William data center riles locals

Prince William County, North Virginia, is often in the spotlight when it comes to locals' gripes and complaints regarding noise and environmental pollution. With the number of facilities in the area growing year on year, a recent report in June estimated that by 2035, the County could run out...

July 22, 2022

Northern Virginia

Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers

Singapore has announced the end of its data center moratorium and is now accepting new applications for facilities, following Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Economic Development Board's (EDB) pilot scheme launch. The moratorium was originally put in place back in 2019 due to S...

July 22, 2022

Singapore

Loudoun County is updating its guidelines for future data center development

Loudoun County, which currently has more data centers than anywhere else in the world, is reportedly updating its guidelines around the development of future data centers in response to the incredible industry growth at work in the area and opposition from locals over noise pollution and data ...

July 22, 2022

Northern Virginia

Stack Acquires Land in Portland For Expansion

Stack Infrastructure is expanding in the Hillsboro area of Portland, Oregon, after acquiring more land in the area. The company announced that it is expanding its Portland data center campus to 200MW with the land acquisition. Upon full build-out, the company’s total capacity in Portland will ...

July 22, 2022

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Abortion surveillance: Tech giants prepare for "legal chaos" from abortion data subpoenas

On June 24th, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, ruling that there is no constitutional right to abortion in the US. Called a "tragic error" by President Joe Biden, the ruling means that individual states can now decide on the legality of abortions, and it's estimated that around hal...

July 20, 2022

United States

Crypto and fossil fuels

Some have argued that cryptocurrency has the potential to pave the way for more renewable energy developments, spurring on growth. This has been met with skepticism from critics, who have said that while it might be a renewable energy catalyst, considering the huge amount of energy sucked up b...

July 20, 2022

United States

Big tech and hyperscalers show concern for economic slowdown

Recently, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said that the outlook for the global economy has "darkened significantly" in recent months, as a global recession looks increasingly likely. This is sending shockwaves across the world, and even big tech companies are wavering in the shadow of economic ...

July 20, 2022

United States

Berkshire Partners To Acquire 49% Stake in MedOne for $215 million

Berkshire Partners is moving to acquire a 49 percent stake in MedOne, an Israeli data center company. The US private investment company is leading a coalition of companies to make the acquisition possible. MedOne currently operates more than 270,000 square feet (25,000 square meters) of data c...

July 20, 2022

Israel

All-time high global temperatures: Data centers under microscope

As the US's Lake Mead, the country's largest reservoir, reaches 'dead pool' levels and the Southwest experiences a record drought, the incredible amount of water guzzled by data centers is increasingly being put under the microscope. Despite a raft of sustainability pledges being made by big t...

July 19, 2022

United States

NTT Starts Development on its VA6 Data center in Ashburn, Virginia

NTT has broken ground on its new data center in Northern Virginia. The data center would be housed in NTT's Ashburn data center campus. The new data center called VA6 will span 188,000 square feet (17,465 square meters). It will also have 24MW of critical IT load. The data center will be NT...

July 19, 2022

NTT Ashburn Campus

PPA prices soar

According to a new report by LevelTen Energy, the prices of PPAs have shot up across Europe in the last year. The report outlined that Europe's solar and wind PPA prices increased by 16% in the second quarter of 2022 to €66,07 per MWh. Compared with statistics from last year, prices have incre...

July 18, 2022

Europe

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network ...

July 18, 2022

Madrid

TAAL & Lake Parime to deploy cryptomine at nuclear station

TAAL and Lake Parime have announced their intention to deploy a new cryptomine facility by an unidentified nuclear power station in Ohio, following the signing of a hosting agreement between the two. Through the deal, 3,000 TAAL-owned S19J Pro bitcoin mining units, with a capacity of 10MW, wil...

July 15, 2022

Ohio

Are ammonia-powered data centers the future?

As the race for more sustainable power options continues in the data center industry, a raft of alternatives have been proposed, from solar to green hydrogen. However, perhaps one option that few expected is ammonia, which is now being pegged as the next major renewable fuel. Joel Moser, CEO o...

July 15, 2022

Japan

ERCOT requests Bitcoin miners switch off to reduce energy consumption in extreme heatwave

Texas is currently experiencing record temperatures, with the state hitting triple figures last week. Waco, for example, reached 108F, beating the 104F high set a century ago back in 1917. Last month, for instance, over a third of those in the US were urged to stay inside. This news comes as g...

July 15, 2022

Texas

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