German auto-maker revealed as the customer behind expansion at hydro-powered data center site

Beating competitors Google and AWS to be the first to open a Middle East data center

As well as building a 3.2 million square foot data center development site

In the second phase of a planned four stage expansion

The company's fourth in Germany

Taking the company's stake in the state to $3 billion

The company has called its Portland expansion its 'largest to date'

Output of 5.5MW to 10MW, and a fast response makes it suitable for on-site generation or backup

Marking the company's fourth data center in Japan

And might expand into a hyperscale campus

As the coal-burning plants cannot hit strict carbon dioxide targets

Once the houses are demolished the site will be sold for just $1

With the aim of consolidating the Nordic data center region

A new spending plan will bring in a sales tax exemption on computer equipment as well as a 20 percent income tax break for data center operators

An agreement for five million gallons of water to be pumped every day could help provide Google's Goose Creek data center with server cooling

Bringing investment in the Saint-Ghislain campus to €1.6 billion ($1.79bn)

The company is the sole investor in the project and will share the farm's energy output with Shell Energy

The facility is expected to start generating electricity in 2020

As part of a collection of hyperscale greenfield sites in the country

But hybrid infrastructure and distributed applications are happening, and we need to iron out the risks, says Uptime Institute survey

The project could hold four data centers and generate 150MW of solar power

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With renewable energy supplied by Vattenfall

The facility will be five times the size of the state-run data center in Belgrade, Serbia