Backblaze is extending its cloud storage platform to a water-based data center in California, The company will deploy 1 megawatt of capacity at the Nautilus Data Technologies facility in Stockton, California, which operates on the San Joaquin River.
NTT’s Adams: Tremendous Demand is Driving Company’s Expansion in Virginia
NTT Global Data Centers Americas (GDCA) is riding a wave of demand for digital services, “We’ve seen a tremendous uptick in our business,” said CEO Doug Adams, who discusses the company’s growth in a video discussion with Data Center Frontier.
Flexential Boosts its Hillsboro Data Center Footprint with 54 MW Expansion
Colocation and hybrid cloud provider Flexential plans to add 54 megawatts of capacity in Hillsboro, Oregon through a phased deployment with developer T5 Data Centers, expanding Flexential’s presence in a key growth market where it provides access to multiple submarine cables.
The Top 10 Data Center Stories for August 2022
Data center safety and innovation were the hot topics last month, including coverage of hydrogen power generators, data centers in earth orbit, and the intersection of data centers end electric vehicle charging. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in August 2022.
Land and Expand: CloudHQ, Scala, Involta, AWS, Google, Microsoft
In Land and Expand, we highlight new data center developments from CloudHQ (Minneapolis), Scala Data Centers (Sao Paulo), AWS (Prince William County), Involta (Cleveland), Microsoft (San Antonio), Google (Singapore), and the team of Skybox and Prologis (Austin).
DigitalBridge: Buying Switch Helps Solve the California Capacity Crunch
Power constraints in Silicon Valley data center hubs are among the reasons DigitalBridge sees opportunity in its pending $11 billion acquisition of Switch, which has plenty of capacity at its massive campuses in Reno and Las Vegas.
CloudHQ Breaks Ground on $2.5 Billion Chicago Data Center Campus
Developer CloudHQ has broken ground on a $2.5 billion data center campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois. The 1.5 million square foot campus marks CloudHQ’s entry into Suburban Chicago, which is seeing strong data center growth.
Water Restrictions in Southwest May Raise the Bar for Data Center Operators
Warning of a potential “catastrophic collapse” of the water supply in the Southwest, the U.S Interior Department is placing restrictions on Arizona’s water use from the Colorado Basin. The impact may be felt by the data center sector, whose water use is already under scrutiny in Phoenix,
Vapor IO Targets ‘Near Premises’ with More Sites, Smaller Modules
Edge computing specialist Vapor IO is refining its business model around “near-premises” applications. The company has also shifted to a smaller form factor for its micro modular data centers, and laid the groundwork for a broader network of edge colocation sites.
Data Centers in Orbit? Space-Based Edge Computing Gets a Boost
A plan to operate small data centers in space got a boost this week, as satellite colocation company OrbitsEdge has a launch partner. OrbitsEdge is working with HPE to house a small rack of servers inside a satellite in low-earth orbit (LEO).
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