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Data Center News Roundup: Meta Signs Geothermal Deal, Google Denied Dublin Facility
In this week’s top data center news, green initiatives are signed across the Americas, and the organizers of Data Center World have issued a call for speakers.
James Walker
August 30, 2024
5 Min Read
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Sustainability Deals
Green initiatives dominated data center industry headlines this week, led by Meta’s announcement that it had signed an agreement with geothermal energy company Sage Geosystems to power its data center growth and expand the tech company’s renewable energy use.
The deal will provide Meta’s operations with up to 150 MW of new geothermal power. Although the location has not yet been confirmed, the first phase of the project is expected to be operational and online in 2027.
The news came as Scala Data Centers partnered with energy firm Serena in what’s claimed to be the largest renewable energy supply agreement in Latin America.
Under the terms of the partnership, Serena will supply renewable energy generated by two wind farms in Brazil to power Scala’s data centers in Latin America.
Elsewhere, Google has been refused permission to build a data center just outside Dublin for failing to meet some of Ireland’s sustainability requirements.
The tech giant’s plan to develop a 780,000 sq ft data storage facility was rejected by South Dublin County Council.
More recent data center sustainability news:
Call for Speakers: Data Center World 2025
Following another successful Data Center World conference and exhibition in April, AFCOM has issued a call for speakers for next year’s event.
Data Center World 2025 will take place in Washington, DC, on April 14-17, offering panel discussions and case studies focused on emerging IT and data center technologies, the latest construction, colocation and cloud trends, and power sourcing and sustainability.
“Our conference program is focused on rapidly advancing data center technologies,” said Tara Gibb, senior director of Data Center World.
“The mission of our program is to help tech professionals plan, manage, and optimize a data center. We are looking for speakers that can deliver engaging topics or case studies related to data center IT infrastructure and mission-critical facilities.”
Interested industry professionals can submit a speaking proposal via the Data Center World website through September 20.
In the meantime, here’s a selection of articles from this year’s event:
Laying the Foundations
The final week of August saw a raft of new data center announcements in the US. In Arizona, Tract has acquired a 2,069-acre parcel of land in Buckeye that will house “one of the largest data center parks in the US” with up to 20 million sq ft of space across 40 facilities.
The operator is currently working with the local utility on plans for long term growth with new power infrastructure which could support up to 1.8 GW.
Meanwhile, Novva Data Centers is developing a 300 MW data center facility on 160 acres of land in southeast Mesa. The $3 billion investment will have 96 MW of critical IT load and a target launch date of 2026.
Located just east of Phoenix, Mesa is already home to Meta’s sprawling data center campus.
Skanska has signed a contract with an as-yet-unnamed customer to build a new data center in Arizona. The $153 million contract will see the development of a single-story data center totaling approximately 250,000 sq ft.
T5 Data Centers has unveiled plans to expand its Atlanta footprint with the development of a new data center campus in South Fulton County, Georgia. Already zoned for data center use, the facility is scalable to support up to 300 MW of power capacity.
In Asia, ESR Group has completed the core and shell of its flagship data center project, ESR Cosmosquare OS1 Data Centre (OS1), in Osaka, Japan. The facility is the first hyperscale data center asset within ESR’s 130 MW campus.
Zettabyte, an AI data center software and systems technology provider, has partnered with Wistron Corporation to build what’s claimed to be Taiwan's first hyperscale AI data center.
“By combining our expertise and IaaS software, we aim to create a world-class AI computing facility that will drive innovation and growth in the AI sector, not just in Taiwan but across the entire Asia Pacific region and the Middle East," said Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai, chairman of Zettabyte.
And while Google was sent back to the drawing board over its plans for a new data center in Dublin, the tech firm is reportedly pushing ahead with new facilities in Vietnam, Uruguay, and Nevada.
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