PROJECT FOCUS
EUROPE
The Boden Type Data Center One was
officially inaugurated in Boden, Sweden. Funded by
the European Comission’s Horizon 2020 programme,
the Europe-wide consortium representing four nations and
five entities officially opened the first installation of the concept
– a pilot site, called Boden Type DC One (BTDC). The BTDC will
demonstrate a range of highly innovative key engineering principles
used to construct the most cost and energy efficient data centres
with minimal environmental impact. The consortium consists of
data centre engineering specialist H1 Systems, cooling manufacturer
EcoCooling, research institute Fraunhofer IOSB, research institute
RISE SICS North and infrastructure developers Boden Business
Agency, who have joined forces aiming to design and validate
a future proof concept.Senior representatives from the
participating consortium discussed their role in the project
and gave an outlook of what results can be expected
in the future during the inauguration ceremony.
NORTH
AMERICA
Google announced it would be investing
more than US$13 billion in investments
throughout 2019 in data centres and offices across
the US. This will include major expansions in 14 states,
with the new investments set to provide the capacity
to hire tens of thousands of employees and enable the
creation of more than 10,000 new construction jobs in
Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina
and Virginia. The announcement was made by Google
CEO Sundar Pichai who said the growth will allow the
company to invest in the communities where it
operates, while also improving the products and
services that help billions of people and
businesses globally.
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