Already known for its data center cluster, Oregon last week welcomed a
major investment from Intel focused on making those data centers better.
The company calls this $700 million, 200,000-sq.-ft. facility an R&D
“mega lab focused on innovative data center technologies and addressing
areas such as heating, cooling and water usage.” Construction on the lab
will begin this year at the Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, with opening
expected in late 2023. Intel also introduced what it called “the
technology industry’s first open intellectual property (open IP)
immersion liquid cooling solution and reference design.” Sandra L.
Rivera, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the
Datacenter and AI Group, said “The future of the data center and data
center design is based on innovative and sustainable technologies and
practices, and I’m proud of the work we’re doing every day to help make
a sustainable future a reality.” In addition to Site Selection’s annual
Sustainability Rankings, the July 2022 issue will feature an exclusive
contribution from the experts at Uptime Institute, known as the global
standard bearer for digital infrastructure performance.
Last week Medacta, the Swiss company specializing in the design,
production, and distribution of innovative orthopedic products, as well
as the development of accompanying surgical techniques, opened the doors
to its new offices in Rancate, within the canton of Ticino. “With an
expansion of 2,100 square meters supporting the creation of more than
150 new jobs, the new building complements and works in complete synergy
with the Castel San Pietro headquarters,” the company said. Medacta was
founded in Ticino in 1999, and there’s more to come. “To support this
growth, we have also initiated a new project here in Ticino, with a plan
to invest in the upcoming years around CHF 40 million [US$41.4 million]
potentially leading to the creation of more than 300 new jobs,” said
Alessandro Siccardi, supply chain director of Medacta. In total, Medacta
plants in Ticino are foreseen to cover more than 36,800 sq. m. or
396,124 sq. ft.
Site Selection for 68 years has documented company facility investments. But
what do you know about total companies in existence? BoldData last week said
the world has now surpassed 300 million companies
for the first time ever: 304,495,506, to be exact. China, with more than
71.8 million companies, outpaces the U.S. with more than 60.7 million. Next
come India (nearly 22.4 million), Brazil (nearly 21.6 million) and France
(more than 12.3 million). Why the big number? For one thing, says BoldData,
the number of freelancers/self-employed has doubled over the past six years,
and now stands at nearly 104 million. The data company says more than half
of all companies (166.38 million) are small and medium-sized with between
two and 100 employees. The number of large companies with more than 100
employees is 1.96 million.
PHOTO OF THE
DAY
Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum/Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
This photo shows Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman, World
Economic Forum, standing beside a live broadcast of Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
President of Ukraine, as he addressed the World
Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters,
Switzerland, earlier today. In addition to expressing regret that the
world did not act sooner in a “preventative” way, Zelenskyy “called on
countries to help reconstruct the country after the war, via ‘United 24’ — a fund
set up to rebuild the country,” said a WEF account of the speech. He
cited more than “half a trillion dollars of losses” with “the urgent
need to rebuild entire cities and industries,” said the WEF account.
Today’s proceedings also include a discussion with Ukrainian former boxers, civic and
now resistance leaders Vitaliy and Wladimir Klitschko, to share
how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected them, Kyiv and their
country.
