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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

Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility

Aligned recently announced the completion of its second data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area, West Jordan, UT. The 48 MW (expandable to 60MW), 240,000 square-foot facility will feature Aligned’s patented cooling technology, which consumes 80% less energy and 85% less water than traditional ...

March 10, 2021

Aligned Salt Lake City

DataBank opens SLC5

DataBank announced it has opened SLC5 in Salt Lake City. The facility is on the Granite Point campus in Bluffdale, UT. The large campus has room for one additional building, SLC6 which is currently in the design phase. DataBank's Press Release on July 22nd 2020: DataBank Announces Opening of ...

July 22, 2020

DataBank SLC5

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The co...

April 15, 2020

Google

Facebook will expand Eagle Mountain campus by 500k SqFt

Facebook has announced it will expand the size of a data center under construction in Eagle Mountain from 1 million square feet to 1.5 million square feet, according to a Wednesday news release from the data center.Facebook first broke ground on the campus in May 2018. To date, Facebook has...

December 12, 2019

Meta: Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

Aligned Breaks Ground on Second Salt Lake Metro Data Center (PR)

WEST JORDAN, UT (October 30, 2019) – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the expansion of its Salt Lake Metro data center campus, breaking...

October 30, 2019

Aligned Salt Lake City

First Solar, Rocky Mountain Power to Build 122 MW Solar Facility to Support Facebook's Utah Data Center

The 122-MW Cove Mountain 2 solar plant will support the Facebook data center through a PPA with Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp and part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The facility will be built near the town of Enterprise in Iron County, Utah, and is scheduled to begin operation...

May 30, 2019

Meta: Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5

Databank is expanding their Granit Point Campus with SLC 5. Adding 10 MWs, 90,000 gross sqft, and 50,000 sqft of raised floor. Databank Press Release: Dallas, TX – April 30, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services and cloud solution...

May 01, 2019

DataBank Bluffdale Granite Point Campus

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

February 07, 2019

Google

Cirrus Data Services plans 160MW campus in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cirrus Data Services believes the Salt Lake City region can support hyperscale and wholesale data center colocation offerings and this week publicly announced the View 78 data center campus in Midvale; a suburb of Salt Lake City. The first phase includes a 32MW wholesal...

July 16, 2018

Cirrus DS View 78

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