June 14, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to launch a cloud region in Taipei, Taiwan and also invest "billions of dollars" in the country over the next 15 years.“Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025,” the company said in an announcement this week. “The...
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June 13, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a number of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Sweden and Denmark from European Energy. It will procure the output of six wind and solar sites in Spain from Repsol.“We are excited that Microsoft has committed itself to driving forward the green...
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June 10, 2024 CoreWeave
Quantum computing startup Atom Computing has secured a funding investment of 70 million DKK ($10.21 million) from the Danish government. State-owned EIFO, the national promotional bank and export credit agency of Denmark. Invest in Denmark, also involved in the deal, is part of the Ministry of...
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June 08, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed its plans to build a 245,000-square-foot data center on 489 acres at the Radius Industrial Park in La Porte with a $1 billion investment.“Indiana is committed to being a central hub in the global economy of the future, and this latest announcement ensures Hoosier...
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June 07, 2024 Amazon AWS
Singapore-based insurer Singlife has completed its cloud migration to Amazon Web Services. The move was multi-phased and involved migrating more than 39 mission-critical applications to the cloud and exiting Singlife's data centers within 18 months.Romil Sharma, group head of technology and...
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June 05, 2024 Equinix
Equinix this week announced plans for LS2, a new International Business Exchange (IBX) facility to be located adjacent to Equinix's existing LS1 site. This €50 million project due to open in the first quarter of 2025 will offer 2,050 square meters of colocation space.Carlos Paulino, managing...
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June 05, 2024 Amazon AWS
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCLH) has migrated its shoreside technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services in a process which took 15 months to complete and involved moving more than 100 applications, thousands of virtual and physical servers, data center environments, and peripheral...
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June 03, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is reportedly nearing a multi-million-euro agreement with cloud lobby CISPE- also known as Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe to put an end to its antitrust complaint according to news first reported by Politico. However, a CISPE representative denied the claims to...
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June 03, 2024 CoreWeave
Cryptomine and HPC hosting firm Core Scientific has rejected an acquisition offer from GPU provider CoreWeave after confirming that it received an unsolicited non-binding proposal from CoreWeave on June 3 to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the company on a fully diluted basis for $5.75...
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June 01, 2024 Google
Google has partnered with Purdue University, Indiana, on a project exploring the use of AI in designing low-carbon data centers and other industrial buildings. The project will deploy AI to explore new materials, technologies, and design strategies that can potentially reduce the carbon footprint...
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June 01, 2024 Amazon AWS
Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for renewable energy development in North and South Carolina.This new MoU called "Accelerating Clean Energy" (ACE) tariffs, would help the companies to support carbon-free energy generation...
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May 30, 2024 Amazon AWS
Insurance provider FWD Group has signed a five-year cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see AWS continue to host the company's core business applications including finance, customer, and insurance agent interfaces, as part of the company's ongoing cloud migration.Sandeep...
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May 30, 2024 Google
Google has revealed its plans to invest $2 billion in developing its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia and has already selected a site for the development, which will be in Sime Darby Property's Elmina Business Park in Greater Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president, chief investment...
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May 30, 2024 Google
A new startup by former Google staff, offering land and power for industrial campuses is now targeting European data centers. “I am very pleased to announce the launch of Sepia Infrastructure,” Sepia CEO Fabien Vieau announced on LinkedIn this week. “Sepia Infrastructure delivers next-generation...
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May 29, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) in partnership with Orange has revealed plans to launch a Wavelength Zone Edge locations in Africa, one of which will be in Morocco, where Oracle has confirmed plans for two new cloud regions. Jérôme Hénique, CEO at Orange Middle East and Africa, said: “The announcement...
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May 28, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has now broken ground in Malaysia with two International Business Exchange data centers in Johor (JH1) and Kuala Lumpur (KL1) now serving the company’s customers in Malaysia and across. Jeremy Deutsch, president for Asia-Pacific at Equinix, said: “Malaysia is a cornerstone market and top...
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May 24, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced the signing of several power purchase agreements (PPA) to power its European operations in France and Spain. The company signed a package solar deal comprising three separate 12-year agreements in Spain and two 15-year deals for wind energy in France. Together,...
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May 24, 2024 Aligned
Aligned Data Centers has revealed its plans to proceed with its previously halted data center campus in Maryland after recent regulatory changes. around backup generators, easing restrictions for data center firms. With this move, Aligned will now be moving ahead with its plans for a campus in...
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May 24, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is buying one million tons of carbon removal credits from a renewable energy company in Denmark, following its aim to invest in carbon capture technology. The tech giant will purchase the credits from Avedøre power station in Copenhagen, which is operated by energy company Ørsted, in a...
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May 24, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services this week announced plans to invest €15.7 billion in Spain into its AWS Europe (Spain) Region. “We are committed to supporting Spain across multiple areas," said Suzana Curic, AWS country manager, Spain and Portugal. "Beyond direct investments and jobs supported, we plan to...
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