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CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne is required to construct a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Last week, the company unveiled plans for its seventh data center facility in Frankfurt, designated FRA7 and situated on a 678,125-square-foot plot in the Frankfurt Westside business park. The development will include t...

September 08, 2023

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Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

Google will construct a second campus in Texas in the Red Oak neighborhood of Dallas. This week, the company announced intentions to invest $600 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas to build its second data center. The search, advertising, and cloud company stated that it would inv...

September 01, 2023

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Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 18...

August 31, 2023

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CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

CyrusOne has announced the launch of an AI-specific built-to-suit data center design, which it says has been developed specifically to address the “rapidly growing needs of AI applications and services.”The company notes that the Intelliscale data center is built on an ultra-high-density found...

August 30, 2023

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Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...

August 29, 2023

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Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

Google has verified its involvement in the Lincoln, Nebraska, data center proposal. This week, the company announced it was constructing a third data center in Papillion and a data center in Lincoln. The search and cloud firm will invest $1.2 billion in the project.Long suspected to be Google,...

August 24, 2023

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CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

CyrusOne has applied to the South Dublin County Council for permission to construct a new data center in the Grange Castle Business Park in the Irish capital. The application, submitted on July 14, calls for the demolition of a one-story home called "Erganagh" and the erection of a three-story...

August 23, 2023

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Google will invest $350 million to expand data center in Iowa

The Council Bluffs data center, located on the Nebraska/Iowa border, will be expanded by Google for $350 million. Plans for a data center in Council Bluffs were first made public in 2007. Google announced expansion plans in 2012 and 2015 and has since spent approximately $5 billion on the faci...

August 09, 2023

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Google data center initiatives postponed, but increases in AI compute expenditure made

Alphabet reported quarterly sales of $74.6 billion, an increase of 7% from the same period last year. Profits increased by 15% to $18.4 billion. While advertising sales drove the majority of the company's development, cloud sales increased by 28 % to $8 billion. Google Cloud reported its seco...

July 28, 2023

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Google’s Water Consumption in Data Centers Soars by 20%

The 2023 Google environmental report shows a considerable increase in data center water consumption. The company consumed an astounding 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, of which 5.2 billion were used solely for data centers. Compared to the previous year, this is 20% higher. Large data ce...

July 27, 2023

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Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis

Uruguay is currently battling a water crisis, facing its worst drought in more than 70 years. The country has now experienced years of low rainfall, something which is likely to only continue as climate change exacerbates the issue. However, it's not just the result of climate change, accordin...

July 21, 2023

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Google breaks ground on Mesa data center campus

Google has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in the Mesa area of Phoenix, Arizona. A $1 billion project, the facility will span 750,000 square feet (70,000 sqm) once fully built out.Previously known as "Redhawk," the project's first 288,530 sq ft (26,805 sqm) phase is due ...

July 14, 2023

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Google submits plans for a three-building data center facility in Belgium

Initially announced by the mayor of Farciennes, Hugues Bayet, the search and cloud company intends to construct three facilities in the Ecopôle business park in Wallonia. The campus will encompass 570,500 square feet. The project will begin construction by the end of the year and be completed ...

July 10, 2023

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CyrusOne announces plans for new Frankfurt data center

CyrusOne has announced its plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA6, the facility is located in Germany’s “Digital City” and will offer a total IT capacity of 72 MW delivered over four floors, with each level offering 18 MW. The company shared that the acquired Eu...

July 07, 2023

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French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction

To obtain planning approvals for a data center in Paris, France, CyrusOne had to fight a legal battle. The Versailles Administrative Court overturned the local mayor's orders to prevent the issuance of two building permits. The company intends to convert a former logistics facility in the Vill...

July 04, 2023

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PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October.A...

May 23, 2023

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CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the nex...

May 23, 2023

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Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

May 08, 2023

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Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total i...

May 05, 2023

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Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak

The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the f...

April 28, 2023

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