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NBA Selects AWS as Cloud and AI Partner

NBA Selects AWS as Cloud and AI Partner

October 07, 2025 Amazon AWS

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Under the deal, AWS will become the official cloud and AI partner of the NBA and its affiliate leagues, including WNBA, NBA G League, Basketball Africa League, and NBA Take-Two Media.The...

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Read PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan
PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan

PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan

September 29, 2025 California

California’s biggest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), has revealed a new $73 billion spending program to upgrade its grid infrastructure to meet the surging demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing.The investment is expected to support up to 10GW of new data...

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Read Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center
Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

September 10, 2025 California

US energy solutions provider Ameresco has partnered with the US Navy and data center developer CyrusOne to develop a 100MW data center at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. The facility will be colocated with a dedicated on-site energy generation facility built by Ameresco, forming a...

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Read KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky

KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky

September 09, 2025 Amazon AWS

Investment firm KKR has appointed Adam Selipsky as a senior advisor for technology and AI strategy. Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation, and governance for the firm’s $179 billion Real Assets business. Selipsky was the CEO of cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2021 to...

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Read AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand
AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

September 02, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cloud region in New Zealand dubbed the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This region consists of three availability zones. AWS has previously said it would invest around NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion) in its cloud operations and infrastructure in...

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Read Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam
Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

August 29, 2025 Amazon AWS

Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced Amazon has pledged to invest $570 million in connectivity infrastructure by 2030 to deploy Kuiper services in the country. The investment will fuel up to six ground stations in the country, and set up satellite terminal manufacturing in...

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Read BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS
BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

August 21, 2025 Amazon AWS

UK telco BT Group has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), signing a new five-year agreement with the cloud provider. The deal builds on BT's ongoing cloud migration to AWS, and aims to help BT move its legacy systems into "modern, customer-centric microservices."“This isn’t...

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Read AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

August 09, 2025 Amazon AWS

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end of...

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Read Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

August 08, 2025 Amazon AWS

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...

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Read AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access
AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

August 07, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an...

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Read AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari
AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

August 06, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately...

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Read AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate
AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

August 02, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved an annualized revenue run rate of more than $123 billion, CEO Andy Jassy revealed in the company's Q2 2025 earnings call. The cloud unit saw a revenue of $30.9bn for the quarter, up 17.5 percent year over year (YoY) and more than the previous quarter's...

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Read CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center
CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

August 01, 2025 California

US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of SV9, a new 228,000 sq ft (21,181 sqm) facility offering 34MW.“This strategic expansion in Silicon Valley reflects our commitment to delivering the scalable, high-performance infrastructure our customers need to power AI, cloud,...

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Read AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement
AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

July 31, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...

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Read Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California
Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

July 25, 2025 California

The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project propose in San Francisco, California, has been scaled down amid environmental concerns. The site is located south of San Francisco in the city of Brisbane and the company seeks to construct a 180,000 sq ft (17,000 sqm) data center and an industrial...

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Read Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in Australia
Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in Australia

Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in Australia

June 20, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia. The investment will see Amazon developing additional data centers and expanding its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said of the company's...

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Read LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System
LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System

LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System

June 13, 2025 Amazon AWS

The US' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an AI-driven troubleshooting and reliability system at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF). While AI is already used to manage the data generated by those experiences and to improve...

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Read Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120
Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

June 11, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon this week announced it will expand its use of water recycling to more than 120 locations in states and counties where the cloud giant has data center operations by 2030.“By scaling our use of recycled water—water that has been previously used and treated—we expect to preserve over 530...

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Read Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK
Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK

Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK

June 11, 2025 Amazon AWS

Campaigners are opposing a hyperscale data center campus planned for Bedfordshire, UK, over concerns about its impact on the water supply. The facility is likely to host servers for Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, with Amazon Data Services named in several council documents. However, advocacy group...

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Read Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS
Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS

Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS

June 10, 2025 Amazon AWS

Iberia Airlines has decommissioned its data centers and has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, and in a multi-year transformation project, has successfully migrated to the cloud. The airline is now using AWS services, including Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon...

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