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Swindon Borough Council approves Amazon data center on former Hewlett-Packard (HP) data center site

According to authentic published documents, the Swindon Borough Council has approved Amazon Web Services’ application to build a data center on a site that Hewlett-Packard (HP) used to occupy. The application was lodged in April 2021. It shows that a new 27MW four-hall facility will be buil...

August 27, 2021

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Sophos brings Sydney data center online

Sophos has announced that its Australian data center, hosted by AWS, has gone online, the first of two openings in the Asia Pacific region in 2021. The second is scheduled for opening in Japan in September. This data center will provide local capacity to meet the growing demand for Sophos Cent...

August 23, 2021

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Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis

Art Data Centres is facing backlash from climate protests over its plans to expand facility proposals in Clare, Ireland. The Ennis data center was first proposed back in 2019, at which point it was estimated to be a €450 million project. This has now jumped massively to €1.2 billion, encompass...

August 13, 2021

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Galway County Council approves five-year planning extension for Apple Athenry data center

Ireland’s Galway County Council has granted Apple a five-year planning permission extension for its Athenry data center. The facility had been canceled since 2019, but Apple applied to extend the site’s planning permission till November 2026. Apple first purchased the site in 2014 for $15 m...

August 12, 2021

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Amazon signs deal with TotalEnergies for renewable energy

Amazon, like many other big tech companies, is making big sustainability pledges. Some of these pledges include becoming net-zero carbon by 2040 and powering all of its operations with renewable energy by 2025. These targets are needed, too, considering the scale of the tech giant. Speaking t...

July 29, 2021

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Apple and Google rally against Ireland's proposed moratorium on new data centers

Last month, the People Before Profit party in Ireland proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development act, to place a moratorium on new data centers being built. This proposal follows Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), launching a consultation on data center grid con...

July 28, 2021

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AWS launches Local Zone in Denver

AWS just announced the availability of local zones in Denver, Colorado. With the new local zones in Denver, customers can now deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to on-premises installations and end-users in Denver. Amazon Web Services said it is happy to anno...

July 28, 2021

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A carbon-neutral future: Which companies are committing and delivering?

In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power.Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...

July 21, 2021

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Amazon in negotiations to build data center in Ceará, Brazil

Amazon has announced that it is in negotiations with officials in Ceará, Brazil, to build a data center and a logistics warehouse in Maracanaú, in the region of Fortaleza. According to Diario do Nordeste, it is expected that an agreement with the state government will be closed in the sec...

July 20, 2021

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TikTok's Irish data center campus to be at Echelon Clondalkin

According to The Sunday Business Post, TikTok plans to lease space at the Echelon data center campus in Clondalkin for its new Irish data center. According to the different sources of the Sunday Business Post, TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, will use the Clondalkin campus as its m...

July 13, 2021

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AWS Planning 3 new data centers in San Antonio

Planning documents recently revealed that Amazon is developing three data centers in Texas. The documents disclosed the project’s name as “Rockfish” and unveiled a plan to build a $56 million, 109,600 sqft (10,100 sq m) data center located on 11625 Old Corpus Christi Highway.This is not the on...

July 13, 2021

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AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas

Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastr...

July 08, 2021

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Amazon's second Drogheda data center jeopardizes environmental targets

An Taisce, the Irish National Trust, have rallied against Amazon building its second data center on its Drogheda site in County Meath. Although the facility was given the go-ahead in June, the Irish planning board is now awaiting an appeal by the environmental group. It says that the authoriti...

July 07, 2021

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Officials voted to rezone lands in Naas, Ireland for data centers

The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, w...

July 06, 2021

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Apple seeks planning permission extension for Athenry data center

Apple has applied to Galway County Council to extend its planning permission on its site in Athenry, Ireland. Apple plans to build a 363,800 square feet data center on the site by the end of the extension period. The data center will be a single-story building with a maintenance building, a lo...

June 25, 2021

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Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada.Wi...

June 23, 2021

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AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

June 17, 2021

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Amazon's second data center in Drogheda, Ireland approved

Amazon’s second data center in Drogheda, Ireland is going ahead after County Meath Council approved the two-story, 28,566 sqm (307,400 sq ft) facility to be built. Based at the Drogheda IDA Business & Technology Park, the facility will reportedly receive an investment of €350 million ($424...

June 14, 2021

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Regulators raise questions over the future of 30 proposed Irish data centers

In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies.As a result, Eirgrid has vo...

June 10, 2021

Republic of Ireland

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

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