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QTS Realty Trust launches new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions

QTS Realty Trust has announced its new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions. The Smart Family solution is built on advanced tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and preemptive understanding into customers’ colocation environment.QTS Smart family solutio...

June 01, 2021

QTS Data Centers

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

May 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besi...

May 26, 2021

Northern Virginia

Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas

Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éann...

May 20, 2021

Yondr Group

Digital Realty Completes Acquisition Of Ascenty (Press Release)

SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...

May 20, 2021

Ascenty

NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT to launch data center in space

Is space the new edge? NTT is planning to develop a data center in space. NTT will be working with SKY Perfect Holdings, a Japanese satellite company, to develop the project. Plans are in place for trials to start in 2022, launch in 2025, and for operations to begin in 2026. The orbiting data ...

May 20, 2021

NTT

STACK to run on 100 percent renewable energy by end of 2021

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it would be running 100% on renewable energy by the end of 2021. The Company made the promise of running all its current and future data centers with 100% green energy while launching its new social responsibility program. The Chief strategy officer at S...

May 19, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Data Center Review conducted in Prince William County

Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted.Established back in ...

May 19, 2021

Northern Virginia

Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029

Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c...

May 19, 2021

Google

Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

May 18, 2021

Google

Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

May 15, 2021

Google

Questions raised over Loudoun County data center proposal

BlackChamber Group’s application to build a 530,000 sq ft (49,000 sq m) data center in Loudoun County has split the county’s board of supervisors. According to a report published in Washington Business Journal, the group’s proposal to build two facilities on the 23-acre plot could be rejected ...

May 14, 2021

Northern Virginia

Stack Infrastructure Acquires More Land To Expand Its Data Campus In Manassas, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has purchased additional 25 acres of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land is next to its Prince William county campus, which is still under development. The plan is to use the new land to build additional two 36MW facilities. The CEO of Stack Infrastructure commented that ...

May 12, 2021

STACK Northern Virginia

Equinix is Exiting Eight Leased Data Centers In The US

Equinix has announced that it would not be renewing the leases for eight of its data centers in the US. The data centers are situated in New York, Georgia, and some in California and Atlanta. Equinix commented that the reason for the development is that some of the facilities don’t meet the fu...

May 10, 2021

Equinix

Vantage provides more Renewable Energy options to Customers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is now providing its customers access to renewable energy at each of its North American and European campuses. This development will help its customers reduce their carbon emissions. Currently, four of the campuses are now being powered by 99% renewab...

May 06, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix prices $2.6 billion "Green" Bond Sale

Equinix has announced that it priced $2.6 billion principal amount of notes, including $1.0 billion of green bonds in its third green bond offering. The green bonds will be used to help advance the company's longstanding commitment to sustainability leadership and reducing its environmental im...

May 04, 2021

Equinix

AES to provide Google with 500 MW of Green Power in Northern Virginia

An agreement has been reached between AES and Google for AES to supply Google’s Northern Virginia data centers with renewable energy. The deal will see AES construct 500 MW of renewable energy and storage projects with a mix of wind, solar, hydro, and battery storage for Google’s data centers ...

May 04, 2021

Google Dulles Arcola Center

TA Realty planning $1.8 billion, 300MW data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia

TA Realty has announced that it will be developing a new $1.8 billion secure data center in Loudoun County, VA. The initial buildings of the data center are expected to be ready by late 2021. Upon completion, the fully built-out campus will be over 1.5 million square feet. It will also have 30...

May 04, 2021

Northern Virginia

Verizon sells media group including Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion

Apollo will be acquiring Verizon Media, which includes Yahoo and AOL, for $5 billion. Also, the deal will see Verizon Media receive $4.25 billion in cash, $750 million preferred interests, and retain a 10% stake in Verizon Media which will be known as Yahoo. The two companies expect to finaliz...

May 03, 2021

Yahoo

Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud pro...

April 28, 2021

Vantage Ashburn Campus

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