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CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois

CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development i...

August 29, 2022

CloudHQ

AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of devel...

August 29, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft has filed to develop a data center in San Antonio, Texas. The company is looking to develop the SAT15 facility at 3555 Westover Link in Bexar County, San Antonio. The new data center will span 245,000 square feet. Microsoft will also invest up to $215.9m in developing the facility. C...

August 24, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center

Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $5...

August 23, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

AWS granted permission for two data center buildings in Dublin despite controversy

AWS has reportedly been granted permission to build two data centers in Dublin on the site of a former Ricoh building, which was once earmarked for T5’s first European facility. This approval has gone ahead despite mounting concerns around energy availability in Dublin, environmental concerns...

August 19, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Announces Launch of Qatar Azure Cloud Region

Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Azure cloud region in Doha, Qatar. The company said, “We are launching our newest data center region in Qatar. The new data center region includes Azure Availability Zones, which offer you additional resiliency for your applications by designing ...

August 19, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Figures around Microsoft's Holland data center water consumption cause concern

Microsoft's data center in the province of North Holland has been exposed for its extreme water usage. It appears that the facility consumes significantly more water than original estimates, right as the country is faced with record temperatures. According to a report by local media company N...

August 18, 2022

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne: Approval granted for Science-Based Carbon Target from SBTi

CyrusOne has announced that it has received approval of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), reaffirming its commitment to the target of reducing absolute Scope 1 (fuels) and Scope 2 (electricity) GHG emissions by 38% by 2030 from ...

August 18, 2022

CyrusOne

Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

August 15, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft embroiled in gold mine controversy

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...

August 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon's emissions increase

Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired ...

August 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft's hydrogen fuel test successful

Microsoft has announced that its hydrogen fuel cell tests have been successful. The giant recently trialed the energy source for its backup generators to support its data center, in what has been called a “moon landing” moment for the data center industry. Microsoft director of data center re...

August 10, 2022

Microsoft Azure

NTT announces sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

NTT has announced plans for a sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, which according to Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, is being built to accommodate its “expanding business in the region. Siong said in a Facebook post, “It’s also very encouraging to note that the pla...

August 04, 2022

NTT

365 Data Centers To Acquire Major Stake in Sungard US for $52.5m

365 Data Centers is looking to acquire the major stake in Sungard's US networking and colocation business. Earlier in the year, Sungard US, Canadian, and UK operations filed for bankruptcy. The company also sold most of its UK operations to MSP Redcentric and UK telecommunication company Daisy...

August 04, 2022

365 Data Centers

Amazon Leases 5.5 Acres in Mumbai for 21 Years

Amazon Data Services is leasing 5.5 acres of land from Larsen & Toubro Ltd outside Mumbai. The lease is to run for 21 years and 6 months. According to Propstack, the property documents show that Amazon is looking to develop a data center on the leased land. Amazon will be paying $451,532 p...

August 04, 2022

Amazon AWS

Hilliard's Planning Commission Approves AWS' Proposal For Data Center Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

The Hilliard planning and zoning commission has approved Amazon Web Services’ proposal to develop a third data center campus in the city. The commission voted 4-3 to approve the proposal. The Board of Zoning Appeals also approved AWS’ request to increase the maximum building height to 63 feet ...

August 01, 2022

Amazon AWS

Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was deve...

July 29, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile

AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center i...

July 28, 2022

Amazon AWS

Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center

Vantage Data Centers has announced the ground-breaking of its first facility on its 80MW Johannesburg campus, a project which launched in 2021. The two-story facility called JHB11 reportedly offers 16MW of capacity of 130,000sqft square feet (12,000 square meters). According to the company, t...

July 28, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

QTS releases annual ESG report renewing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility

QTS recently published its annual ESG report, in which it highlighted its sustainability achievements and the different projects and initiatives it's pursuing in order to expand its commitment to social and environmental responsibility. This follows the company being named as one of America's ...

July 26, 2022

QTS Data Centers

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