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White Rock's flared gas cryptomine facility launches in Texas

Cryptomining firm White Rock Management has announced it is the latest company to decide to use flared gas to fuel its mining operations, launching its first US bitcoin mining operation in Texas' Brazos Valley region. This bitcoin mining facility will be powered using the oil well's excess nat...

July 04, 2022

Texas

Nautilus and DFFN Sign Agreement to Develop Data Center in the Philippines

Nautilus Data Technologies and Philippine-based IT firm DFNN Inc. are forming a partnership to develop a data center in the Philippines. The companies signed an MoU to partner up to develop the facility in the Freeport Area of Bataan. None of the companies shared the data center specificati...

July 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Philippines

Land in Fayetteville, Georgia Annexed & Rezoned For Data Center Development

Despite protests from residents of Fayette County, Georgia, county officials have voted to annex and rezone over 400 acres of land for the development of a data center office park. The council voted 5-0 to see the land located on Tyrone Road rezoned for data center development. The rezoning wi...

July 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Georgia

Residents voice concern around Fayetteville data center site annexation

Residents in Fayette County have voiced concerns about the consideration of approval for the annexation of 412 acres in the center of the county, enabling the development of a data center. According to the city report: "If annexed, the properties would be zoned BP Business Park and designated ...

June 30, 2022

North Carolina

HPE accelerates climate goals

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that it has accelerated climate goals, bringing them down from 2050 to 2040, following its most recent Living Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2021, which it released this week. The tech giant said that it will facilitate this change by establishin...

June 30, 2022

California

Another Hurdle For The Development of Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

The Netherland's Hollands Kroon municipal is looking to prevent the development of more data centers in the area. The plan comes even after being one of the only two regions the country's government exempted from the ban on hyperscale data centers. The new coalition of Independent Hollands Kro...

June 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

Edge Centres' Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Edge Facility To Come online in July

Edge Centres has started working on its Edge data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Australian Edge data center company announced that it would be expanding into Asia. The first facility called EC31 is being developed in Malaysia. Edge Centres scheduled the site to be completed in July. Th...

June 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kuala Lumpur

Many Companies Line Up To Buy Time Dotcom's Data Center Business

According to Bloomberg, many companies including BDx, DigitalBridge, STT GDC, Digital Edge, and STT GDC are exploring options of acquiring Time Dotcom’s data center assets. The long line of suitors are currently performing due diligence on the data center assets. Offer for the assets could be ...

June 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Malaysia

Aspen Creek Digital commences operations despite challenging market

Aspen Creek Digital Corp, a new company in the bitcoin space, has announced that it has opened a six-megawatt solar-powered facility in the western part of Colorado. This announcement comes despite the current crypto meltdown. The company has outlined that its mission is to "catalyze the deca...

June 29, 2022

Colorado (CO)

The Camro Data Park To Create New Data Center after Receiving Funding

Camro Data Park has announced a refinancing deal with Topland Group. The property investment firm agreed to a two-year financing deal worth £9.25 million ($11.3m) with Camro Data Park. The new data center site is located within the Elean Business Park in Cambridgeshire. Camro already has pe...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

A $1.5 Billion Data Center in Niagara Falls is Being Planned

Urbacon and Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) have announced plans for a $1.5 billion data center park on land in Niagara Falls, New York City. Urbacon is an Ontario-based construction company with an excellent track record of developing massive data center campuses in Richmond Hill, Montre...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

Four Data Center Parks Coming To Uttar Pradesh, India

The government of Uttar Pradesh, India, has approved the plan for four data center parks in the state. The government granted permission to Adani Enterprises Limited Project-1 and Adani Enterprises Limited Project-2, NIDP Developers Private Limited (an affiliate of Hiranandani Group), and NTT ...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

India / Bhārata

Warrenton, Virginia To See Data Center Development Skyrocket

Virginia’s Warrenton town could see the development of data centers skyrocket due to the change of zoning laws. Amazon Web Services has plans to develop a large data center in the town due to the zoning law change. The company filed to develop a 20,400 square meter (220,000 square feet) single...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Plans For Facebook's Zeewolde Data Center Finally Comes To an End

Facebook has finally announced that it has canceled its plans for the Zeewolde data center. This move comes after it first announced a pause to the project in March. The data center was poised to be largest data center in the Netherlands. Facebook’s plan was to develop a 200MW data center acro...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

Prologis Takes Over NTT's 2300 W. Plano Parkway Site

According to Dallas Morning News, Prologis is looking to develop an industrial warehouse park on a site at 2300 W. Plano Parkway occupied by NTT for an office complex and data center. The company plans to develop a 64-acre, eight-building warehouse which will span 92,900 square meters (1 mi...

June 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT 2300 W Plano

Renewable energy credits (RECs) and greenwashing

New research shows that while an increasing number of companies are making ambitious and climate promises and claiming they’re powered by renewable energy, many of their pledges are often exaggerated as a result of an over-reliance on Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). RECs are received by ...

June 27, 2022

Canada

Groton Town Places Moratorium on Large Data Centers

Groton Town in Connecticut has placed a one-year moratorium on the development of large data centers pending when it enacts its data center industry regulation. According to CT Examiner, the Groton Planning and Zoning Commission voted to place a moratorium on large data centers. The new rule w...

June 26, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Connecticut

VP of Ghana Opens Tier IV Onix Data Center in Accra

The Vice President of Ghana, Mahamudu Bawumia, has opened a 12MW data center in Accra, Ghana. The data center was developed to Tier IV standards. The data center was constructed by Onix. Onix is also claiming that the facility is the only African-based carrier-neutral co-location data center n...

June 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Accra

H5 Acquires 505 Marquette

H5 Data Centers has acquired 505 Marquette in downtown Albuquerque. The building is a carrier hotel from which H5 DC currently operates a data center. The 225,000-square-feet building is a critical interconnection point for New Mexico. This is because it has 20 on-site communications carrie...

June 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

H5 Albuquerque

FMC GlobalSat Closes Acquisition of Santander Teleport in Spain

FMC Globalsat has acquired Santander Teleport, located in Spain. The Santander Teleport was formed as a joint venture between MTN Satellite Communications and Erzia in 2010. It spans over 9,290 square meters (100,000 square feet) and operates up to 30 antennas. These antennas range from 3 t...

June 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

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