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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

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Microsoft To Invest $1 Billion on Four Data Centers in North Carolina

Microsoft has promised to invest a minimum of $1 billion in developing four data centers in North Carolina’s Catawba County. The company plans to spread the investment over the next 10 years. According to county officials, Microsoft will invest in the data centers in Maiden, Hickory, and Conov...

November 13, 2022

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T5 begins work on the last phase of its Chicago facility

T5 Data Centers has announced that it’s expanding its facility in Chicago, Illinois, in the final 20MW phase of its T5 Chicago facility at 200 Innovation Drive in Elk Grove. Acquired by T5 in 2016, the company first broke ground on an expansion back in 2017; its current expansion offers 140,0...

November 10, 2022

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Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate

Microsoft has entered into a 15-year power-purchase agreement with Potentia Renewables Inc. (Potentia) and Greengate Power Corporation's (Greengate) Paintearth Wind Project LP. As per the PPA, Microsoft will procure wind energy from the 198MW Paintearth Wind Project in Paintearth County, Albe...

November 10, 2022

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Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals

Tech giants like Apple have made big pledges when it comes to going green and introducing net-zero and water-positive targets. However, when it comes to their wider supply chains, it turns out they're not so green. According to a recent report from Greenpeace, on average, 77% of technology man...

November 09, 2022

Apple

Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are proje...

November 07, 2022

Google

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

Meta announces further data center expansion plans despite share crash

Since Facebook became Meta, the company has tanked, losing $650 billion. In the wake of this huge loss, on Thursday, the giant's shares crashed 24% to $97.94, which is reportedly the lowest in nearly four years. This follows its historic loss in market value back in February, which saw $200bil...

October 31, 2022

Meta

AWS Buys 50+ acres in Thane, India For Possible Data Center Development

Amazon Web services has acquired a parcel of land in India. The company bought over 50 acres of land in Thane district, Mumbai for Rs 1,800 crore ($218 million). It is expected that AWS will build a data center on the site. The site was acquired from Ananta Landmarks, a subsidiary of real e...

October 28, 2022

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Microsoft files for another Virginia campus

Microsoft has reportedly filed to build another data center campus in Clarksville, Virginia, with the US Army Corps Of Engineers’ Norfolk District. As per the application, the company is looking to develop on a 259.1-acre parcel of land at the Lakeside Commerce Park, at Commerce Drive in Sout...

October 28, 2022

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AWS To Launch Cloud Region in Bangkok, Thailand

Amazon Web Services has announced its plan to open a new cloud region in Bangkok, Thailand. The new region will have three Availability Zones, which are custom with most AWS regions. The region is also part of AWS' plan to invest over $5 billion in Thailand in the next 15 years. AWS did not re...

October 27, 2022

Amazon AWS

Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development

Search engine and cloud Giant Google has acquired a 36-hectare plot outside Brussels, Belgium. According to a report, the land will likely be used for data center development. The terms of the acquisition were not revealed. The land is located in the Feluy Industrial Estate, 40KM south of Brus...

October 27, 2022

Google

AWS Files to Develop Three Data Centers in Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services plans to develop three more data centers in Northern Virginia's Stone Ridge. BizJournal was the first to report the development. AWS is looking to develop the data centers on its 90-acre land at 42139 Reeds Farm Lane, southwest of Dulles International Airport in Loudoun Cou...

October 26, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Buys 25-acre Plot in Pune, India

According to The Economic Times, Microsoft has acquired a plot of land for data center development in Pune, India. The company bought 25 acres of land in the Pimpri-Waghere area of Pune. Per reports, Microsoft made the deal by getting Finolex Industries to transfer its long-term lease on the l...

October 25, 2022

Microsoft Azure

AWS partners with concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centers

AWS has announced a new collaboration project with American Rock Products (ARP), a concrete company, to develop a concrete mix for data centers that is more sustainable. Labeled the most destructive material on earth, concrete is fundamentally unsustainable and a significant contributor to cl...

October 14, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon's data center emissions rise with Oregon expansion

According to a report by The Oregonian, Amazon’s data center expansion in Eastern Oregon has caused carbon emissions to soar in recent years. Oregon’s Morrow and Umatilla counties are the locations targeted by Amazon, in part due to local tax breaks, which have seen Amazon rake up tax breaks w...

October 14, 2022

Amazon AWS

Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India

Per information privy to CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm, Google has leased a 43,100 square meter (464,000 square feet) data center in Noida, India from Adani. The lease is to run for ten years and it will start with an annual rate of Rs130.98 crore ($16m). The agreement has alre...

October 13, 2022

Google

Google to open its first data center in Japan

Google is opening its first data center in Japan, it has announced. To be located in Inzai City, Chiba, the facility is part of the company's $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024 and is set to open by 2023. Google The data center, the company...

October 10, 2022

Google

Meta continues its expansion in Eagle Mountain, Utah

Social media giant Meta has announced that it is expanding its footprint in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the expansion of its data center campus. The company made this announcement of the new additions on Facebook, where it said the campus grow by 2 million square feet. Meta's Eagl...

October 04, 2022

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