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Carbon Sense launched by Google

Google Cloud has launched Carbon Sense, an updated version of its tool for reporting and reducing carbon emissions. This new suite features Carbon Footprint (launched last year), a tool that measures the carbon emissions of Google customers' cloud usage, and an expanded version of Active Assi...

February 22, 2022

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Big tech greenwashing: A failure to deliver on sustainability pledges

Nearly every day, it seems another tech company has made another big green pledge; however, according to the nonprofit NewClimate Institute, big tech's promises to deliver on sustainability are not leading to action. Lacking real substance, according to the report, even the companies that are ...

February 11, 2022

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Google Has Still Not Acquired Land For Data Center in Sherburne County

Google has still not started work on its proposed $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota. The search engine giant announced plans for the data center in 2019, yet, the two companies involved said they hadn’t abandoned the project. At the time of the announcement, Google said it was mull...

February 10, 2022

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Hut 8 Announces Closing of the Acquisition of TeraGo's Data Center Business

TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of North America's largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers, supporting open and decentralized systems since 2018, is pleased to announce the closing of its defini...

January 31, 2022

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Google's Council Bluffs data center complete

Google's Council Bluffs data center is complete, it has announced. This means the giant's investment in the city has now reached $5 billion.Speaking about the company's investment in the area, Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh said in a press release: "Google's $5 billion of capital investment...

January 25, 2022

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USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

January 21, 2022

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BBT Has Selected MCFI's Genius Data Center Solution

Mission Critical Facilities International (MCFI) has announced that it has deployed its GENIUS Modular Data Center in Midland, Texas. Midland is in the epicenter of the most productive oil and gas production locality in the whole of North America. BBT selected MCFI’s GENIUS Modular Data Center...

January 18, 2022

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Skybox Datacenters finishes construction on Illinois data center

Construction on Skybox Datacenters's 189,000 sq ft (17,600 sq m) facility Elk Grove Village facility is complete, the company has announced. The project, first announced in March 2021, is the company's first outside of Texas and has a capacity of 30MW.Rob Morris, CEO of Skybox Datacenters, sai...

January 17, 2022

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Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City

Google has completed the acquisition of hundreds of acres of lands in Kansas City’s Northland. The search engine giant plans to develop data centers at the site. According to Kansas City Business Journal, property records show that Google bought 236.4 acres of land to the north of Hunt Midwest...

December 27, 2021

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Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

December 15, 2021

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Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor, Digital Bridge Group, have announced the acquisition of PCCW Ltd.’s data center business. The acquisition sees Vantage DC’s portfolio to include 100MW of existing and expansion capacity across many facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Besides, t...

December 06, 2021

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Google Cloud to develop its Saudi Arabian data center in Dammam

Google has revealed that it is developing its first cloud region in Saudi Arabia in Dammam. In addition, Google will be operating the data center in partnership with the world’s largest oil producer Saudi Aramco. The search engine giant will also open an office in Riyadh to support the facilit...

December 03, 2021

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Google opens cloud region in Chile

Google has opened its new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. The company first announced plans for the region in December 2020. The region is now Google’s second cloud region in South America as it opened one in São Paulo in 2017. Just like all Google’s regions, the Chile region has three availa...

December 02, 2021

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Google joins Ørsted's offshore wind project

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PAA) with Ørsted, a Danish offshore wind developer. According to reports, Google will have access to 50 MW of Ørsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 Offshore Wind Farm.This PPA is in line with Google’s goal to powe...

December 01, 2021

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Google to expand in Israel amid calls for the tech giant to 'boycott' Israel

Google has announced that it will be expanding its data center footprint in Israel, building its fourth facility in the Sharon region near Moshav Beit Yehoshua. This development has come about following the tech giant winning the government's Nimbus cloud tender. Google already has leases for ...

November 15, 2021

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Google's Oregon plans given the green light despite water concerns

On Monday, The Dalles council unanimously approved a $28.5 million deal for Google to build two new data centers in the area. This approval has gone ahead despite water concerns; due to the area currently being drought-stricken and the proposed facilities potentially guzzling millions of gallo...

November 12, 2021

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Google buys 53 hectares of land in Wallonia, Belgium For Data Center Development

According to L’Echo and La Nouvelle Gazette, Google has acquired over 50 hectares of land in Belgium. The search giant acquired the land in the Wallonia region of Belgium for developing data centers and office buildings. The Saint Ghislain data center in Belgium was Google’s first expansion in...

November 11, 2021

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Crusoe's technology cuts data center CO2 emissions

In an effort to push forward the climate agenda as reliance on data and data centers increases, Crusoe energy has launched its new sustainable Data Center Services. According to the company, through utilizing its Digital Flare Mitigation technology, methane emissions can be reduced by 98%, and...

November 05, 2021

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Vantage Data Centers secures $530 million in financing

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has raised $530 million in securitized notes. The funds it raised would be used to refinance Vantage DC’s Variable Funding Note (VFN) facility. VFN was used to facilitate the purchase of CA22. Vantage Stabilized Data Centers, a joint venture Vantag...

November 05, 2021

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Tackling the water scarcity issue: Controversy and secrecy

Water scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue globally, and data centers, which typically guzzle around 3-5 million gallons of water per day, the equivalent of the water usage by 30,000-50,000 people, are adding to the problem. As the climate issue worsens and big tech companies continue to...

November 04, 2021

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