Microsoft today made its case to the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a legal dispute between the company and the U.S. government, in which Microsoft is challenging a U.S.… Read More
Reports surfaced last month that Amazon.com planned to spend $1.1 billion on a new data center in Dublin, Ohio — just outside of Columbus. Now, it sounds like Amazon is… Read More
Seattle-based Amazon.com is considering a big expansion in the Buckeye State, revealing plans to spend us much as $1.1 billion on a new data center in Dublin, Ohio — just… Read More
The biodomes Amazon is planning for its new Seattle campus aren’t the only green aspects to the company’s expansion in the area. Amazon is moving ahead with a unique plan to… Read More
In its continuing quest to improve the efficiency of its data centers, Google has found a new solution: machine learning. Jim Gao, an engineer on the company’s data center team,… Read More
Igneous Systems has been operating in stealth mode since the company was formed with a $3 million seed round last fall. And not much is going to change now that… Read More
Microsoft is the company behind a $1.13 billion data center known as “Project Alluvion,” taking shape in West Des Moines, Iowa. The Quad City Times and The Des Moines Register report that… Read More
AdHost, one of Seattle’s better known data center operators, has been acquired in a deal of undisclosed size by TierPoint Seattle Holdings, a subsidiary of Cequel Data Centers. Cequel operates… Read More
The Pacific Northwest data center boom continues, with The Oregonian’s Mike Rogoway reporting last week that Apple has struck a deal to invest $250 million and employ at least 35… Read More
Digital Fortress plans to open a new 25,000 square foot data center just north of downtown Seattle this July, adding to a facility that the newly-formed company operates at the… Read More
Craig Kelly and Bob Cartwright have worked in the data center business for years, with Kelly spending more than a decade at Amazon.com and Cartwright holding industrial and systems engineering positions… Read More
Apple is considering building a massive new data center in Prineville, Oregon, next door to where Facebook opened its own facility earlier this year. Mike Rogoway at The Oregonian has… Read More
Data centers produce massive amounts of heat, so much so that companies like Facebook have gone to extreme lengths to develop innovative cooling systems to make sure that servers don’t… Read More
Hines Global REIT Inc. is paying $160 million to buy Fisher Plaza, a purchase that includes the headquarters building and data center operation of Fisher Communications. In a press release,… Read More
Facebook today announced that its Prineville data center in Oregon has received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, with the company noting that the facility (which recaptures 100… Read More
I’ve been spending the afternoon at the SC11 supercomputer conference, taking place this week in Seattle, where one of the more unexpected companies on the show floor is Facebook. Actually,… Read More
Citing Seattle as a communications hub and an important portal to Asia, Redwood City, California-based Equinix announced today that it plans to build a new $60 million data center in… Read More
The city of Quincy, Wash., will lease a water treatment plant from Microsoft on the site of the company’s data center in the city for a nominal $10 a year,… Read More
Quincy, Washington — an agricultural town near the Columbia River in central Washington — continues to attract technology companies in search of cheap power for massive data centers. The latest… Read More
After getting gobbled up by CenturyLink, data center giant Savvis is expanding its operations in the Seattle area. The company is opening a new 27,150 feet data center in Tukwila,… Read More
This is not what the state needed. After much criticism about the construction of the state’s new data center in Olympia, word comes that a power surge at the existing… Read More
The tiny town of Quincy, Washington continues to transform from agriculture to data centers. And two large facilities, housing the computer servers that power much of the Internet economy, continue… Read More
For the longest time, I assumed that Facebook chose Prineville, Oregon for its new data center because of hydroelectric power. After all, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Intuit and others established massive… Read More
Massive data centers — many of which dot the Columbia River basin in Washington and Oregon — have historically been described as electricity-sucking power hogs. But a new report from… Read More
Yesterday, we told you about Facebook’s desires to find more office space in downtown Seattle. But that’s not the social networking giant’s only expansion effort in the Pacific Northwest. The… Read More
The general manager in charge of Microsoft’s data center operations, Kevin Timmons, has left the company for a job at Apple, according to reports by Data Center Knowledge and the… Read More
Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make its data center in Prineville, Ore., dramatically more power-efficient and… Read More
Cheap hydroelectric power continues to entice big technology companies to the Columbia River towns of the Pacific Northwest. Amazon.com — operating through its Vadata data center unit — is reportedly… Read More
Microsoft is dropping more than a few jaws with the news that it’s spending $7.5 million to acquire 666,624 IP addresses, the behind-the-scenes routing numbers associated with specific devices connected… Read More
Fisher Communications says has retained a financial adviser to “explore alternatives for maximizing the value of Fisher Plaza in Seattle,” home to one of the region’s largest technology data centers,… Read More