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Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

Google has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Columbus, Ohio. The company noted that the new cloud region (us-east5) would provide users with the availability and speed needed to serve local customers, innovate quicker, and develop high-performing applications. Google first ann...

May 25, 2022

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New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created by...

May 24, 2022

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Digital Edge announces it has opted for Nortek’s StatePoint for new data center

Digital Edge has announced it will be using Nortek's StatePoint liquid cooling technology in its new data center, the NARRA1, which is set to be the largest carrier-neutral facility in an operational capacity in the Philippines. The company said it has chosen this technology as part of its go...

May 19, 2022

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AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

BizJournal reports that Amazon Web Services is looking to develop a third data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. Hilliard’s economic development director, David Meadows, told BizJournal, that AWS will start developing a 151-acre site located at 4120 Scioto Darby Road, near I-270. The planne...

May 19, 2022

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Global Switch Set For Sale

According to Bloomberg, the owners of Global Switch are preparing to sell off the data center firm. The report shows that Global Switch Holdings Ltd. Is prepared to sell off the company to other firms due to multiple interests from investment funds and other companies in the data center indust...

May 18, 2022

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New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those fa...

May 16, 2022

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Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB...

May 13, 2022

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Alibaba Launches First Data Center in Bangkok Thailand

Alibaba Cloud opened its first data center in Bangkok, Thailand. The company first announced the facility in October 2021. It, however, had an opening ceremony for the new data center this week. Alibaba Cloud Intelligence’s country manager for Thailand, Tyler Qiu, said data protection and secu...

May 13, 2022

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NextDC makes progress on S3 data center

Progress has been made on NEXTDC's S3 data center, it has been announced. Multiplex, the company working on the development, has outlined that it has begun 'topping out' the structure in the Artarmon on Sydney's lower North Shore. The facility spans 26,770 square meters of data halls and ancil...

May 12, 2022

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DigitalBridge and IFM Taking Switch Private For $11 billion

DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors have entered an agreement with Switch to take it private. The deal to take the US data center company private is worth $11 billion. The CEO and Founder of Switch, Rob Roy, said the development is a crucial moment in the company’s vision for its evolution a...

May 12, 2022

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Culpeper County sued by neighbors over rezoning

According to reports, residents in Culpeper County, Virginia, are suing the county board after it approved the rezoning of a 230-acre property for an AWS data center. The giant is seeking to build two six-story data centers, a 12-acre power station and new power lines, however, six landowners ...

May 10, 2022

Amazon AWS

Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

Luxemburg has instructed Google to decide on its planned data center in the country. The search engine giant bought land in 2017 to develop the facility, but development has been delayed due to local court cases and protests. Earlier in 2017, Google wanted to start the €1 billion ($1.1bn) p...

May 05, 2022

Google

NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Navi Mumbai, India. It also opened another data center in Mumbai recently without fanfare. The Navi Mumbai facility is called NAV1A, located in the Mahape area. The eight-story data center spans 400,000 square feet, and it has 45MW in po...

May 05, 2022

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AWS Expanding Presence in Oregon with Four More Data Centers in Morrow County

Amazon Web Service (AWS) has plans to develop up to four data centers in Boardman, Oregon. The company filed with Oregon’s Marrow County to develop a data center campus on a 127-acre site. The site is located on the west side of Bombing Range Road, a mile away from Interstate 84 Interchange an...

May 05, 2022

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Amazon To Develop New Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon is going to develop another data center in Chantilly, Virginia. The news was first broken by BizJournal. However, it has now been confirmed with local county records that the company has been granted permission to develop the data center at 3980 Virginia Mallory Drive. The filing did...

May 03, 2022

Amazon AWS

Planned AWS data center in Dublin to go ahead despite challenge

After a prolonged battle by charity An Taisce to defeat Amazon's Co Meath 48 megawatt (MW) data center proposal at the IDA Business & Technology Park, it has been announced that the giant's plans have been given the green light. The charity had opposed the facility based on environmental c...

April 29, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS Given Green Light To Purchase Land For New Zealand Cloud Region cloud region

It is good news for Amazon Web Services as it has been granted permission to acquire land for its planned data center development in New Zealand. In September last year, the company revealed plans to launch its new Cloud Region in the country in 2024. Consistent with Microsoft’s previous regio...

April 29, 2022

Amazon AWS

Google Launches First Spanish Region in Madrid

Google has announced that it has opened its first cloud region in Madrid, Spain. The company noted that the just opened cloud region is designed to meet the technological needs of businesses in Spain. In addition, it added that the region helps provide low latency cloud services with high data...

April 29, 2022

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Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center

Google has announced that it is replacing some of its diesel backup capacity at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center, with a 2.75MW battery system from Fluence. This announcement aligns with Google's public pledge to use entirely carbon-free energy by 2030 by reducing its emissions. The batt...

April 25, 2022

Google

SK ecoplant and Digital Edge Partner To Develop 150MW Facility in South Korea

Digital Edge and SK Ecoplant have formed a joint venture to develop a data center in Incheon, South Korea. The facility will be named Bupyeong data center. Per the agreement, the two firms will jointly develop and promote the 120MW hyperscale data center project. The facility will be locate...

April 25, 2022

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