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Nebraska Seeks to Win Massive $1.2 Billion Data Center Contract

Published on February 6, 2012 By transcom

February 6, 2012 — Nebraska data center development officials are making a move to pass economic incentives to win a massive data center build contract dubbed “Project Edge”, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. The company looking to build the $1.2 billion data center campus hopes to break ground in May, with an [...]

Facebook IPO Filing Details Data Center Spending

Published on February 2, 2012 By transcom

February 2, 2012 — With 845 million users, and more than half of users logging in everyday, Facebook has provided some insight into how much it costs to run its infrastructure through the release of its IPO filing on Wednesday. Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in its infrastructure, comprised of its own data [...]

Cooling Vendor Eaton Corporation Opens Two Data Centers in Kentucky

Published on July 7, 2011 By transcom

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Power and cooling technology provider Eaton Corporation (www.eaton.com) recently opened two new data centers in Louisville and Simpsonville, Kentucky, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. The new data centers feature improved energy efficiency and result in a significant upgrade of Eaton’s global data center infrastructure and $23 million [...]

Web Host Go Daddy Says Outage Due to Software Upgrade

Published on June 15, 2011 By transcom

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider and domain registrar Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) experienced an outage on its website Monday after a software update went wrong, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge on Tuesday. This downtime comes a week after Go Daddy announced it now protects more than 500,000 websites with its [...]

Googles Strategy for 111 8th Avenue Space Could Leave Web Hosts Looking Elsewhere

Published on June 7, 2011 By transcom

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Just a few months after Google (www.google.com) acquired Manhattan’s 111 8th Avenue data center carrier building, it appears as though the company is looking to significantly expand on its office space within the building, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. In December, the company acquired the massive Internet [...]

No Deadline Extension for Washington State Data Center Tax Breaks

Published on June 2, 2011 By transcom

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Washington State Senate bill that proposed a deadline extension for sales tax breaks on data center construction is now officially dead, despite Senate members voting unanimously in favor of the bill, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. Last month, the Senate voted 41-1 in favor of the [...]

Washington State Senate Advances Data Center Tax Incentive Bill

Published on May 20, 2011 By transcom

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Washington State Senate has passed a bill that proposes to extend the deadline for sales tax breaks regarding data center construction, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. Members of the Senate unanimously voted in favor of the bill this week in a 41 to 1 count. The [...]

Apple Leases Space in DuPont Fabros Santa Clara Data Center

Published on May 20, 2011 By transcom

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Apple (www.apple.com) will expand its infrastructure into a Santa Clara, California data center, according to a report Wednesday by Data Center Knowledge. This announcement comes a month after Apple hired Microsoft’s data center general manager Kevin Timmons. According to the report, Apple signed a seven-year lease for 2.28 megawatts of [...]

Federal US Government Shutting Down 137 Data Centers in 2011

Published on April 29, 2011 By transcom

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced on Thursday that the US Federal government has already shut down 39 data centers just four months of 2011, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. If the government manages to succeed, it will shut down a total of 137 data centers in the [...]