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Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg

Keypoint is expanding in Yekaterinburg, it has announced, with the addition of a new facility, spanning 3,200 sqm (34,450 sq ft). It will reportedly be built inside an existing building and constructed with the aim of achieving Tier III certification, developed in partnership with Russian telc...

January 05, 2023

Russia / Россия

Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement

Those living in drought-prone The Dalles, Oregon, home to Google’s massive data centers, now know how much water the giant has consumed. This information, previously kept a secret by city officials, has been released following a legal fight funded by Google and launched by the city against The...

January 03, 2023

Google The Dalles Oregon

More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed wit...

January 01, 2023

Dublin

Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center

Green Mountain has finalized the expansion of its data center campus in Oslo, Norway. As a component of its OSL1-Enebakk complex, the Nordic data center provider has constructed a new 13.5MW data center, initially slated to debut in November 2022, as was announced at the end of 2021. Earlier i...

December 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

Data Castle, a new data center joint venture between Angelo Gordon and data center development management company DCD Data Center Developers, has announced plans to build and operate facilities in Germany. The JV will begin work on its plans in the town of Schwalbach am Taunus, just outside of...

December 29, 2022

Germany / Deutschland

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

December 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tokyo

Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market

Singtel has announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Telkom and energy company Medco Power for its first data center project in Indonesia. The data center campus will reportedly be developed in three phases on an 8-hectare site. With a total capacity of 51 MW when fully built...

December 22, 2022

Indonesia

Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks

Legislators in Michigan are attempting to decrease the tax exemptions provided to data centers. In December of 2022, Yousef Rabhi, a Democrat from Michigan, presented two proposals to repeal sales and use tax breaks for data centers. Current Michigan legislation exempts data centers from sales...

December 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry

Basin Electric has reportedly reached out for state approval for a power plant expansion in McKenzie County to accommodate the growing power requirements of the data center industry. The state Public Service Commission (PCS) received the company's expansion request back in October, which would...

December 19, 2022

North Dakota

Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership

Shell has announced a partnership with US-based NuScale through which it aims to evaluate the production of hydrogen from small nuclear power stations inexpensively. This new deal is for the “Development and Demonstration of a Concept for an Economically Optimised IES” project, which will be c...

December 19, 2022

United States

V.tal plans new facility in Port Alegre, Brazil

V.tal has announced that it's planning a new facility in Porto Alegre after acquiring a building in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. While no details related to financial terms, location, building size, or timelines were shared, the company, a Brazilian fiber firm part of telco GlobeNet, in a s...

December 16, 2022

Brazil / Brasil

Applied Digital Breaks Ground on New 5MW Facility in North Dakota

Applied Digital Corporation has announced that it is developing a 5MW data center in North Dakota. The facility will be designed to host Graphics Processing Units GPUs for non-cryptocurrency use cases. Applied Digital’s new data center will be located next to its existing 100MW hosting faci...

December 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North Dakota

Cox Edge Launches Edge Locations in Florida and Arkansas

Cox Edge has announced the launch of new Edge locations in Arkansas and Florida. The company's LinkedIn post reads: "We're excited to announce a new location in Johnson, Arkansas, and in Pensacola, Florida, on our journey to bring compute resources closer to end users!" Cox Edge is Cox Communi...

December 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Arkansas

JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development

JLL is looking to sell a plot of land outside Chicago, Illinois. The land is being touted for data center development. JLL’s Regional Director, Sean Reynolds, posted on LinkedIn about the land. He said: “Looking for a Chicago area data center development site with quick access to 50 megawa...

December 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chicago

Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has announced its plan to expand its data center presence in New Zealand with two new data center campus developments. The Nordic data center company said it would develop the facilities in Helsinki, Finland, with each having an initial capacity of 50MW. The company did not reveal t...

December 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Helsinki

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Following the Prince William County Board of Supervisors' decision to give the green light to the controversial PW Digital Gateway, it is now being faced with two lawsuits. The decision, which will permit changing the area's comprehensive plan, opening up the area to 25 million sq ft (2.3 mill...

December 14, 2022

Northern Virginia

Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact announces launch of audit framework

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, made up of 80 data center companies and 22 associations, has announced the launch of an audit tool companies can use to verify the environmental claims they make. The Audit Framework, checked against the EU's Taxonomy regulation, will reportedly ensure tha...

December 14, 2022

Europe

Offshore wind auction reaches $757 million in bids in California

The United States' first floating wind auction, part of the US government's pledge to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, closed on its second day last week, with prices reaching $757m. This is for five leases across 373,286 acres in waters off California, where at least 4.6 G...

December 13, 2022

United States

Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup provider, recently offered a rare glimpse into its US East Data Center, highlighting its capacity to store and manage a staggering amount of data for its growing customer base. Located in CoreSite Reston, the data center is designed to ensure top-notc...

December 13, 2022

Eric Bell

CoreSite Reston Campus VA1

Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment

Chandler City Council has given the green light to adopt a zoning code amendment for the location and operation of data centers in the city. This unanimous vote follows the tabling of an ordinance by Cameron Carter, an attorney with Rose Law Group and representative of Aligned Data Centers, wh...

December 12, 2022

Arizona

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