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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

Equinix Announces Expansion in The UK

Equinix has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint in the UK in London and Manchester. The data center firm revealed that it had launched a new data center in Manchester called MA5. It is also expanding its LD7 and LD8 facilities in London. The Managing Director of Equi...

November 24, 2022

Equinix

Equinix Announces TY15 in Tokyo

Equinix has announced that it is developing a new data center in Tokyo called TY15. The company first announced the facility earlier in the month. Equinix revealed that the data center is scheduled to be in operation in H1 2024. The facility will also have a capacity of around 1,200 cabinet...

November 24, 2022

Equinix

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

Former Large Turkey Farm in Loudoun County Seeks Rezoning for Potential Data Center

The owners of a former turkey farm in Leesburg, Northern Virginia, have plans to rezone part of the land for data center development. According to BizJournal, Orme Farm LLC, owners of up to 376 acres of land in Leesburg, Loudoun County, is working with an affiliate of real estate company Van M...

November 23, 2022

Northern Virginia

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

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

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

Microsoft Azure

Partners Group Acquires EdgeCore Digital For $1.2 Billion

Partners Group has acquired edgeCore Digital Infrastructure. The equity company revealed that it would fund the $1.2 billion acquisition. The fund will help EdCore develop its existing and future data center facilities. EdgeCore was established in 2018. The data center company is backed by mor...

November 11, 2022

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

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

Microsoft Azure

Stack to develop new data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona

Stack has announced that it’s developing a new 230 MW data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring five buildings on a 50-acre site. This site, which will span 1.7 million square feet (157,935 sqm), is the company’s second in the state and will run on 100% renewable energy, built with a ...

November 08, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway

After months of protests and deliberation, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change to the county's comprehensive plan to allow a controversial data center development on the Digital Gateway lands. This vote of 5-2 permits 27 million square feet of data center s...

November 07, 2022

Northern Virginia

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

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

Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties of Spain. The acquisition sees the company take over a data center in Madrid, Spain. Iron Mountain also acquired land in Phoenix, Arizona, and Mumbai, India in a separate acquisition . XData was developing the large data center be...

November 04, 2022

Iron Mountain

Prince William Board of County Supervisors to vote on controversial data center development

Today the Prince William County Board of County Supervisors is set to vote on a much-anticipated and controversial data center development, "the PW Digital Gateway", which would introduce 26.7 million square feet of data center space to 2,100 acres next to rural land of historical and cult...

November 01, 2022

Northern Virginia

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

Stonepeak Announces $570m Investment in CoreSite

Investment company Stonepeak has increased its investment in CoreSite by $570m. The data center company was acquired in 2021 by American Tower Corporation for $10 billion. After the acquisition, Stonepeak invested $2.5 billion in the data center company in the summer. Stonepeak’s new investmen...

October 31, 2022

CoreSite

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