May 09, 2023 Washington
In Washington, House Bill 1416, a Bill set on regulating carbon emissions tied to crypto mining and data centers has been signed into law. Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on May 3, the legislation closed a loophole in the previously passed Clean Energy Transformation Act, which enabled crypto mining...
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May 09, 2023 Middle East
Although there are a number of innovative research programs targeting AI's vast resource consumption, for the time being, advanced AI-powered language learning models (LLM) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 require huge amounts of water to cool down. This is a serious issue in drought-prone areas with high...
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May 08, 2023 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Pressure Sensitive Systems India, through its subsidiary Global Markets Insights IT Services LLC, has recently opened a new data center, Pressure 2.0 Cloud, in Dubai, UAE. The facility reportedly has a capacity of 20MW of IT capacity, spanning 194,000 square feet (18,000 square meters) and will...
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May 05, 2023 London: Slough
After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and a...
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May 05, 2023 North Holland
The Province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) has launched an objection against the development of a new data center project in De Kwakel, Uithoorn. This is the latest intergovernmental dispute over a data center in the Netherlands, where the climate is growing increasingly hostile to data center...
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May 05, 2023 Norway
DE-CIX has announced that its new DE-CIX IXs are now available in Bulk data centers in Oslo (OS-IX) and Kristiansand (Campus N01). Its InterconnectionFLEX service will be available via the partnership with Bulk Infrastructure Group, through which customers will be provided with an interconnection...
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May 05, 2023 Virginia
Harbor Peak, a joint venture specializing in carrier-neutral dark fiber, interconnect, and network planning services, has begun construction in Ashburn, Virginia, on a new middle-mile network infrastructure that will facilitate connectivity between numerous private and public data centers. In...
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May 05, 2023 Tennessee
The US real estate development company Oppidan has filed plans to construct a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The company has filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for permission to build a data center at 3900 S. Mendenhall Road. The permit encompasses...
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May 04, 2023 Nigeria
Per a report by TechCabal, the power backup system at Zenith Bank in Nigeria was damaged by fire, which resulted in a blackout at the data center. The outage began at seven in the morning, affecting customers, and majority of the bank's services were down. According to TechCabal, the bank did not...
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May 03, 2023 India / Bhārata
Adani Group has announced that it is developing two data centers in Andhra Pradesh, located in Madhurawada and Kapuluppada.The projects will see an investment of INR 21,844 crore, with the first, in Madhurawada. Vizag Tech Park Private Limited, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, will be...
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May 03, 2023 Sydney
Macquarie Data Centers has announced that it has partnered with Console Connect to add a new Point of Presence in Sydney. Through the partnership, Console Connect’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform will be available at the Macquarie Data Centres campus in Macquarie Park, Sydney. The two have...
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May 03, 2023 Alabama
The Alabama city of Auburn City will soon get a new data center. The 65,700 square foot Mill Creek Data Center will be located on 52 acres of newly developed land in the city's Auburn Technology Park at 406 West Veterans Boulevard. The data center was granted approval by the City Council this...
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May 03, 2023 Africa
GPX Global Systems Inc., the leading provider of carrier-neutral data center offerings in Africa, and Redcon Group have announced a new investment of approximately $90 million to expand the Cairo 2 data center in Cairo, Egypt. The development will add an extra 12 MW of power and 9,000 M2 of...
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May 02, 2023 Israel
Vultr has announced that it is expanding its global footprint with a new data center location in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company shared that this is part of a wider expansion plan to democratize access to cloud infrastructure. This addition means that the company now offers full-stack...
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May 02, 2023 Montreal
Wiz has announced the launch of its new cloud data center in Montreal, Canada. The facility is to provide local and multinational organizations with faster, and more secure cloud security infrastructure and is also pegged to provide greater data sovereignty, while maintaining privacy...
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May 02, 2023 atNorth Stockholm SWE01
BNP Paribas, a long-time client of atNorth, is still shifting some of its operations to the Nordic region. By doing so, BNP Paribas will be able to meet the increasing need for high-performance, data-intensive IT workloads. BNP Paribas' drive to update and expand its high-performance computing...
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May 01, 2023 France
French startup Denv-R has released an update on its prototype floating data center in Nantes. The company is reportedly on the precipice of deploying its river-based facilities. The prototypes will utilize river water to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and are equipped with solar...
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May 01, 2023 United Kingdom
In an effort to move its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud, the British Ministry of Defense has awarded Deloitte $2.5 million. The MOD intends to close its data center and migrate to Oracle Cloud, but the transition has been difficult. First reported by The Stack, the...
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May 01, 2023 Virginia
The University of Virginia experienced disruption due to the impact of fallen trees on the data center's grid line. The facility was supposed to transition to a backup generator immediately, but the backup switch failed. UVA employees manually shifted power to the data center at 11:30 a.m. on...
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April 30, 2023 Poland
According to Samsung Electronics Poland, the company has begun selling data center SSDs in the nation. Both the PM893 solid state drive, which is based on SATA technology, and the PM9A3 SSD, which uses MVMe, are now accessible to consumers. Both TD Synnex and AB are carrying out their activities...
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