Virginia Data Centers
Resources
Overview
- AWS using reclaimed wastewater for data center cooling at 20 locations (2023, November 23)Written by Dan Swinhoe in Data Center Dynamics
- Amazon files for 1.7 million sq ft data center campus in Louisa County, Virginia (2023, September 26)Written by Dan Swinhoe in Data Center Dynamics
- AWS experiment with Lambda in cloudless configuration fails to impress (2023, June 14)Written by Simon Sharwood in The Register
- AWS went down for millions of customers, taking a host of top sites with it (2023, June 14)Written by Craig Hale in Tech Radar
- "Plus ça change"? - Why did AWS Support fail with US-EAST-1 again? (2023, June 14)Published in The Stack
- AWS US-East-1 Lamda outage causes issues globally (2023, June 13)Written by Sebastian Moss in Data Center Dynamics
- Amazon, despite climate pledge, fought to kill emissions bill in Oregon (2023, April 4)Written by Caroline O'Donovan in The Washington Post
- Local activists file lawsuit to stop Amazon data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia (2023, March 31)Written by Sebastian Moss in Data Center Dynamics
- “I see myself everywhere!” How AWS is outdoing its peers when it comes to Black representation (2023, February 23)Written by Madeline Bennett in Diginomica
- Amazon to use green concrete from Holcim in Northern Virginia (2023, January 25)Written by Peter Judge in Data Center Dynamics
- AWS expands footprint at site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region (2023, January 23)Written by Laura Dobberstein in The Register
- Understand AWS Regions vs. Availability Zones (2022, May 6)Written by Chris Tozzi in Tech Target
Amazon HQ2
- Amazon’s HQ2 Is at a Crossroads (2023, October 6)Written by Matt Day in Bloomberg
- Amazon HQ2 is not matching the original hype. The economy is partly to blame (2023, June 20)Written by Scott Cohn in CNBC
- Why Amazon built a second headquarters and how the pandemic reshaped HQ2 (2023, June 19)Written by Annie Palmer in CNBC
- Amazon's HQ2 in Virginia finally opens — does it still make sense? (2023, June 16)Written by Alexandra Garfinkle in Yahoo Finance
- Amazon’s HQ2 Set To Open This Year in Northern Virginia Even As Tech Giants Scale Back (2023, February 5)Written by Katherine Hamilton in CoStar
- Was Amazon’s Headquarters Contest a Bait-and-Switch? Critics Say Yes (2018, November 6)Written by David Streitfeld in The New York Times
- Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies (2023, January 24)Press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice
- How Google plans to use 100% carbon-free energy in its data centers by 2030 (2022, April 13)Written by Catherine Clifford in CNBC
- Female founders change lives in the data center capital (2022, March 9)Written by Laurel Brown in Google blog site The Keyword
- Google to power Virginia data centers with 24/7 clean energy from AES (2021, May 4)Written by Iulia Gheorghiu in Utility Dive
- Google and AES innovate the next frontier in clean energy with first-of-its-kind 24/7 carbon-free energy solution (2021)Report published by AES Corporation (accessible as a PDF)
- Data Center AlleyMain page, published by Google, for their two data centers located in Loudoun County, VA
- EfficiencyPublished by Google staff in Google Data Centers
- The CloudPublished by Amazon AWS staff
- Microsoft begins work on data center site in Manassas, Virginia (2024, January 15)Written by Dan Swinhoe in Data Center Dynamics
- Carbon Streaming To Provide Microsoft With Carbon Removal Credits From Virginia Biochar Project (2023, September 26)Written by Erin Voegele in Biomass Magazine
- Microsoft Azure: Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time (2022, May 2)Written by Madeline Dunn in Baxtel
Additional Resources
Google - Data Center PUE Performance
Chart showing the PUE of Google's data centers, broken down by location and year. Click on the image or title to access the full chart, or follow this link: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/#:~:text=Google%20Data%20Center%20PUE%20performance
Amazon - Renewable Energy Map
Map from Amazon showing locations of renewable energy projects across the world, divided by solar and wind farms. Click on the image or title to see the full map, or follow this link: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/products-services/the-cloud?energyType=true#:~:text=CEO%2C%20AWS-,Renewable%20Energy,-We%E2%80%99re%20on%20a
Microsoft - Reducing Data Center Emissions
Inforgraphic from Microsoft detailing their efforts at reducing data center emissions. Clicking on the infographic or title links to an article discussing those emission reduction efforts in Australia and New Zealand. You can also access it by following this link: https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/features/microsoft-takes-another-key-step-to-reduce-data-centre-emissions-in-anz/
Meta - Sustainability Impact Map
Sustainability map from Meta that shows locations of their data centers and renewable energy projects (solar, wind, and water restoration). Click on the image or title to see the full map, or follow this link: https://sustainability.fb.com/data-centers/#:~:text=Sustainability%20impact%20map