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Google to Build Second LATAM Data Center in Uruguay

GOOGLE’S 14TH FACILITY The tech giant Google, has finally disclosed plans to build a new data center in Uruguay. This facility will be joining the company’s Chile data center in Latin America. Google’s new Latin America (LATAM) data center will…

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Over 1000 Google Workers Sign Open Letter on Climate Action

CLOUD CONTRACTS WITH OIL FIRMS, LOBBYIST FUNDING AND OPPRESSIVE SURVEILLANCE 1,137 Google workers and still counting, have signed an open letter which calls on Google to commit to, and release a company-wide climate plan. As announced, this is a collective…

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QTS Expands Its Atlanta Data Center Campus

ALREADY SIGNED A 12MW PRE-LEASE Colocation provider QTS Realty Trust has commenced an expansion of its Atlanta-Metro data center campus with the development of a new data center. The new data center is to be sited in the company’s 76-acre…

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AWS to Open New Cloud Region in Spain

SPAIN’S PRIME MINISTER WELCOMES AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it plans to open an infrastructure region in Spain, which will consist of three separated Availability Zones. The new infrastructure will be AWS’s seventh region in Europe, joining existing…

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Stream Opens New Hyperscale Facility in Texas

OFFICIALLY COMMISSIONED 15MW FACILITY Stream Data Centers has officially commissioned its newly constructed hyperscale data center DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) VII in Garland, Texas. As announced, this 138,000 square foot facility has positioned the company to meet ongoing demand for colocation…

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Digital Realty to Acquire Interxion in $8.4B Deal

DIGITAL REALTY BECOMES EUROPE’S SECOND LARGEST Digital Realty has just entered into a definitive agreement to acquire European data center giant Interxion in an $8.4 billion deal. The transaction which includes debts, values Interxion at $93.48 per share, a 5.4%…

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Microsoft beats Amazon to Win DoD’s $10B Contract

AZURE MAKES IT TO THE MILITARY ZONE At long last, DoD’s (US Department of Defense) controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud contract has just been awarded to Microsoft over Amazon. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud deal is expected to…

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AWS Gets 15yrs Tax Break on 7th Oregon Campus

A $200 MILLION DATA CENTER FACILITY Amazon’s cloud arm AWS, has gotten a 15-year total property tax exemption for its planned data center campus, which is to be sited in Hermiston, Oregon. Hermiston is a small city in Umatilla County,…

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AMP Capital Acquires Data Center Firm Expedient

AMP GAINS 11 DATA CENTERS U.S. data center provider Expedient, has announced that AMP Capital is set to acquire the company from its current parent, Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC. Expedient is primarily focused on providing data center services in the…

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Interxion Turns German WW2 U-Boat Base to Data Center

€140M FOR BUNKER CONVERSION Dutch colocation provider Interxion, plans to turn a long-abandoned World War II German submarine base in Marseille, into a data center. The company has set out €140 million to convert the uncompleted Southern France “Martha Base”…

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