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Meta continues sustainability efforts with new PPA in Arkansas

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that it has signed another PPA with D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a renewable energy producer in the US. The PPA is a long-term renewable energy off-take agreement through which Meta will procure solar energy from the upcoming Long Lake Projec...

December 05, 2022

Meta

Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

Digital Realty has announced that it is offering a $350 million note to the public. In addition, its Digital Core Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed in Singapore, will buy a stake in a Digital Realty-owned data center in Germany. The company noted that it is priced an underwritten ...

December 02, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable' environ...

December 01, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

December 01, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants, Go...

November 30, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

AWS has announced that it has signed a PPA with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to procure solar power for its operations in Indonesia. The state-owned electric utility will buy electricity from 210 MW of solar projects (four solar projects located in Bali and Java Island.)PLN stated that the ...

November 28, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County

AWS’s Warrenton data center proposals have been ‘indefinitely postponed’ by Virginia’s Fauquier County officials following a unanimous vote. The original proposal outlined plans for a 220,000-square-foot (20,400 sqm), single-story data center in Warrenton at the intersection of Blackwell Road...

November 24, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon Buys Two Data Centers in Massachusetts For $26.7m

According to the Worcester Business Journal, Amazon has acquired two data centers in Massachusetts. The company bought the two properties in Westborough and Grafton in Worcester County for $26.7m from State Street Corp. Amazon bought 600 and 800 Friberg Parkway in Westborough for $11.6 mill...

November 24, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services Opens New Cloud Region in Hyderabad, India

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Hyderabad, India. The company’s statement reads: “Today we are announcing the general availability of the 30th AWS Region, Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, with three Availability Zones and the ap-south-2 API name. The new Hyderabad Regi...

November 23, 2022

Amazon AWS

New timing protocol implemented at Meta data centers

Meta has announced that it is deploying a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which will keep each server in its data centers on the same time. Servers must be coordinated, otherwise, users can experience delays, errors, and outages.In contrast to Network Time Protocol...

November 22, 2022

Meta

Prime DC Breaks Ground on its 175MW Facility in Chicago

Prime Data Centers has announced that it has started work on a large campus in Chicago, Illinois. The data center company held a groundbreaking ceremony for its $1 billion facility at 1600 East Higgins Road in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. This will be the company's first data center in Illi...

November 21, 2022

Prime Data Centers

Amazon Web Services Launches New Zurich Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Zurich, Switzerland. The principal developer advocate for Amazon Web Services, Sebastien Stormacq, said: “I am pleased to announce today the opening of our 28th AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), also known by its API name: ...

November 18, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS Launches Spanish Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services has launched a new region in Spain. With this launch, the company has opened its eight regions in the continent. Like AWS’ other regions, the Spanish region also launched with three availability zones. AWS had announced in the past that it would invest up to €2.5 billion ($...

November 17, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon follows tech industry with new round of layoffs

Amazon is the latest tech company to make big layoffs. The giant is making around 10,000 cuts to employees in corporate and technology roles, in what the New York Times has determined represents about 3% of its corporate staff. More broadly, the cuts represent less than 1% of the global workf...

November 16, 2022

Amazon AWS

Meta makes big cuts sacking 13% of its workforce

Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has announced the biggest job cuts in the giant's history, with 13% of its workforce set to lose their jobs in a move that follows big redundancies at Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the job cuts are "the mo...

November 15, 2022

Meta

Adani, EdgeConneX JV AdaniConneX begin operations at hyperscale data center in Chennai

AdaniConneX, the joint venture between EdgeConneX and Adani Enterprises, has launched its first data center in Chennai, Chennai 1 Data Center. Its first phase will reportedly offer 17MW and 33MW of IT load at full build-out.“The wait is over! We proudly announce that our state-of-the-art Chenn...

November 09, 2022

EdgeConneX

In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that in an effort reduce its water consumption to become water-positive, it has increased its server rooms' temperature by five degrees to 90°F (32.2°C). This was first announced at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference, and first implemented at one data cen...

November 07, 2022

Meta

Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

November 07, 2022

Lumen Technologies

Colovore To Develop a 9MW Liquid-Cooled Data center in Santa Clara

Colovore has announced its plans to build a new data center in Santa Clara, California. The US data center company revealed that it would be developing its second facility in the city at 3060 Raymond Street. The data center is located adjacent to its existing facility at 1101 Space Park Dri...

November 04, 2022

Colovore

CyrusOne proposes data center outside of London

CyrusOne is reportedly proposing a new facility located just outside of London in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, UK. The company filed its application in October with Buckinghamshire council, which outlined its plans for the 'Iver Heath Data Park,' a proposal to redevelop the Shannon Group head...

November 01, 2022

CyrusOne

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