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Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microso...

May 03, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for impr...

May 02, 2022

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Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

Microsoft is set to buy over 100 acres in Malaga, Washington. According to the county's officials, the company will be using the land to develop data centers. Commissioners of the Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority signed a sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft for 102.5 acres of l...

April 28, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Iron Mountain constructs first-ever BREEAM certified data center

Iron Mountain Data Centers has added another layer to its sustainability efforts, after it secured BREEAM design certification for its Phoenix, AZ (AZP-2) data center. This makes the data center company the first in North America to receive "top tier certification" for sustainable constructio...

April 27, 2022

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Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place...

April 27, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the 4...

April 27, 2022

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CyrusOne collaborates with Gexa Energy for wind and solar energy

CyrusOne, a signatory and founding member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is collaborating with Gexa Energy following the signing of a new power purchase agreement (PPA). Through this agreement, the data center company will be provided with wind and solar power ...

April 22, 2022

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Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR

Meta has partnered up with EDP Renewables, it has announced. The energy company will supply solar energy in Texas via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The social media giant, will gain access to 156MW, procured from the 240MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County, which EDP Renewables North Am...

April 21, 2022

Meta

Aligned Finishes Work at ORD-01 Data Center, Breaks Ground on ORD-2

Aligned has announced the completion of work on the first data center at its campus in Chicagoland. In addition, the company has also broken ground on a new data center at the campus. Aligned completed the first phase of its ORD-01 data center, which is located in Northlake, Illinois. The d...

April 20, 2022

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DataBank Is Expanding its SNA2 Facility

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SNA2 data center in Irvine, California. The expansion will see the company add 4MW of critical power and 24,000 square feet (2,200 square meters) of raised floor space. The facility currently offers 4MW of critical power and 3,100 square meter...

April 20, 2022

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Evoque Starts Offering Build-to-Suit Data Center Services

Evoque has announced that it is moving beyond a colocation provider to offering build-to-suit data center services. The company's senior director of communications, Kevin Fleming, revealed that it is pioneering a new development with its build-to-suit solutions for government, hyperscale, a...

April 19, 2022

Csquare

Stack Infrastructure To Develop an 84MW Campus in Prince William County

Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop an 84MW mega data center campus in Prince William County, North Virginia. The facility will be housed on a 34-acre site. It will also feature a minimum of two data center buildings spanning 602,000 square feet. Stack plans to deliver t...

April 15, 2022

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Aligned Data Centers announces adoption of material tracing system

Aligned Data Centers has announced the launch of a material tracing system called the OriginMark system. According to the company, this tracing system has been introduced to enhance and accelerate supply chain decarbonization. This will be achieved through the use of a unique identifier, simi...

April 14, 2022

Aligned

Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acr...

April 08, 2022

Meta

Equinix's $1.2 billion in green bonds will enhance its data center sustainability

In its latest sustainability effort, Equinix has announced $1.2 billion of "green bonds," the fourth green bond the company has issued. Now the company's total green bonds stand at $4.9 billion. According to the company, the company will use these funds to push forward its sustainability initi...

April 07, 2022

Equinix

Macquarie Partnering With NTT To Further NTT's European & North American Expansion

NTT and Macquarie Asset Management are partnering up to invest in data centers. These firms announced that they had entered a strategic real estate partnership that covers NTT’s wholesale facilities across North America and Europe. The agreement will see Macquarie invest real estate capital...

April 05, 2022

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Equinix joins CyrusOne in orchard initiative

Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population...

April 04, 2022

Equinix

Equinix moves into Salalah, Oman

Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership wi...

April 04, 2022

Equinix

KKR & GIC Make History By Closing CyrusOne's Acquisition for $15bn

KKR & Global Infrastructure Partners have announced that they have completed and closed the acquisition of CyrusOne. The acquisition sees the public company become private. The acquisition fee is $15 billion, making it the largest Merger and Acquisition deal in the data center industry ...

April 04, 2022

CyrusOne

Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas

Meta is going to develop a data center in Temple, Texas. The social media giant plans to develop the new facility on a 393-acre site located off Industrial Blvd. and NW H K Dodgen Loop. When completed, the new data center will have up to 83,600 square meters (900,000 square feet) of space. ...

April 01, 2022

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