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Meta’s 1.38GWh Dutch data centre put on hold by senators

Meta’s (NASDAQ: FB) hyperscale data centre plans for the small Dutch town of Zeewolde have been thrown into disarray after senators blocked the sale of the land to Facebook’s parent company. The project was approved by the municipal council last week but was dependent on Amsterdam’s greenl...

December 23

João Marques Lima

Meta to build 1.38GWh data center in the Netherlands, the country’s largest to date

Hyperscale data centre builder Meta (NASDAQ: FB), formerly known as Facebook, has gained approval from local authorities in a small Dutch town to build the Netherlands’ largest data processing facility to date. Located 50Km east of Amsterdam, the town of Zeewolde home to 20,000 people will in the coming years become home to Meta’s centre that will power Facebook, Instag...

December 20

João Marques Lima

AWS re:Invent 2021: Over 30 new cloud Local Zones announced as NASDAQ inks partnership to redesign capital markets digital infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com Inc. company (Nasdaq: AMZN), said it will expand its Local Zones portfolio with the addition of more than 30 new locations in major cities around the world in 2022. The new AWS Local Zones, announced at the company’s annual re:Invent conference, will be located in more than 21 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bel...

December 03

João Marques Lima

Meta closer to building 166-hectare data centre in the Netherlands

Meta (NASDAQ: FB), previously known as Facebook, is closer to building another hyperscale data centre in Europe, this time in the Netherlands, which could amount to a capital commitment of over US$1.4 billion. The project is set to be voted by Zeewolde Municipality’s council authorities on December 16. According to the social media giant, both the mayor and aldermen of th...

November 25

João Marques Lima