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Read Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland
Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland

Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland

September 07, 2023 Maryland

The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multiple...

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Read ServerDomes plans dome-shaped data facilities across Mexican fiber line
ServerDomes plans dome-shaped data facilities across Mexican fiber line

ServerDomes plans dome-shaped data facilities across Mexican fiber line

September 07, 2023 México

US university subsidiary ServerDomes will build aluminum dome data centers along a new Mexican fiber route. ServerDomes, a 2017 geodesic design from Portland, has partnered with Mexican infrastructure provider Fermaca Infraestructura. Fermaca will have exclusive rights to create...

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Read Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India
Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India

Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India

September 07, 2023 India / Bhārata

Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order of...

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Read Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase
Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase

Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase

September 06, 2023 Australia

TPG Telecom is selling part of its Sydney, Australia, data center and office space. Interest submissions can be submitted to Colliers for 30 Ross Street in the Forest Lodge neighborhood until October 3. The building is an "infrastructure-quality asset" with a working data center and extra office...

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Read LyonTech La Doua data center construction commences in France
LyonTech La Doua data center construction commences in France

LyonTech La Doua data center construction commences in France

September 06, 2023 France

Work has begun on the LyonTech La Doua Calculation and Data Center (CCDD) project in Villeurbanne, France. The University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, collaborating with the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Lyon INSA) on the facility, has begun earthwork and structural development....

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Read Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm
Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm

Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm

September 06, 2023 Switzerland

The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of...

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Read Google signs first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland
Google signs  first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland

Google signs first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland

September 05, 2023 Republic of Ireland

Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 246...

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Read Google shares plans for $600M data center in Red Oak, Texas
Google shares plans for $600M data center in Red Oak, Texas

Google shares plans for $600M data center in Red Oak, Texas

September 05, 2023 Hyperscale Data Center

Google has shared further expansion plans, with the announcement of a new $600 million data center in Red Oak, near Dallas. The new facility will become the company’s second in the state of Texas. Back in 2020, the company purchased 165 acres of land in the area, which is believed to be the...

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Read Huawei opens cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Huawei opens cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Huawei opens cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

September 05, 2023 Saudi Arabia

Huawei has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The facility will reportedly support government services in the Kingdom, allowing for AI applications and language models in Arabic. Through the move, the Chinese tech giant will grow its online service offerings...

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Read Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint
Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint

Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint

September 05, 2023 India / Bhārata

The Indian real estate development company Anant Raj will enter the data center industry. The company announced on its social media and local publications that it will invest $1.2 billion to develop up to 300MW capacity in the county. The company has set up Anant Raj Cloud Pvt. Ltd. as a...

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Read Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction
Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction

Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction

September 04, 2023 Michigan

The former location of an ADP office and data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is up for auction. Outside of Ann Arbor, Colliers and Ten-X are selling the A2 West Technical Center in Scio Township. The auction is scheduled to begin at the midpoint of October with an opening bid of $1.6 million. On...

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Read CapMan Infra takes over the Danish colocation company Fuzion
CapMan Infra takes over the Danish colocation company Fuzion

CapMan Infra takes over the Danish colocation company Fuzion

September 04, 2023 Denmark

CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...

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Read Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire
Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

September 04, 2023 Nebraska

On Saturday, September 2, a fire at a data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, shut down 911 services in the state's southeast. According to reports, the data center in issue was a Windstream facility in Lincoln. A transformer shorted and exploded due to a fire in the data center, cutting power to the...

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Read The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island
The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island

The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island

September 01, 2023 Guam

To enhance Internet quality, the government of Guam intends to construct a solar-powered Tier IV data center on the island. In addition, it intends to construct a new government data center on the University campus. This week, the Office of the Governor revealed the Guam Five-Year Action Plan for...

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Read Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center
Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

September 01, 2023 Ohio

A data center construction is proposed for the northern Ohio region outside Toledo. The Blade reports that preparations are underway to locate a data center on hundreds of acres in Middleton Township, west of Interstate 75 and near the intersection of State Routes 582 and 25. Details regarding...

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Read Indian River State College in Florida plans a data center
Indian River State College in Florida plans a data center

Indian River State College in Florida plans a data center

September 01, 2023 Florida

The Indian River State College (IRSC) will construct a data center in Okeechobee County, Florida. The campus has been named Okee-One and will be on a 205-acre parcel containing the former Okeechobee "School for Boys." Okee-One will house multiple data centers, function as a learning laboratory...

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Read Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire
Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

September 01, 2023 Belgium

Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services. Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were...

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Read Guam University to receive new government data center
Guam University to receive new government data center

Guam University to receive new government data center

September 01, 2023 Guam

A new government data center is proposed for the campus of the University of Guam. The government intends to construct a two-story, 15,000-square-foot data center/Office of Information Technology facility. The endeavor will see an investment of $15 million. The report notes that the 1992-built...

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Read Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand
Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

August 31, 2023 New Zealand

In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's planning...

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Read GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station
GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

August 31, 2023 Guam

Guam-based telecommunications company GTA TeleGuam has been permitted to construct a new cable landing station (CLS). In May, GTA submitted plans to construct a new CLS in Inalhan, southeast of the island. The Guam Daily Post reported last week that the Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission granted...

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