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Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

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 i...

August 29, 2025

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EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced the acquisition of its second data center site in the Greater Osaka and Yawata areas of Japan. The new site will provide an additional 150MW upon completion, bringing EdgeConneX's total data center capacity in Japan to 350MW of utility power at f...

August 28, 2025

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Digital Realty Launches 2MW Data Center in Nigeria

Colocation giant Digital Realty this week announced the opening of its latest data center in Lagos, in the Lekki area of the city, adding nearly 2MW of IT capacity across nearly 1,205 sqm (13,000 sq ft) of data hall space. The facility will be interconnected with Digital Realty’s existing LKK1...

August 26, 2025

Digital Realty Trust

BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with 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’...

August 21, 2025

Amazon AWS

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good ne...

August 20, 2025

QTS Data Centers

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

August 18, 2025

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of t...

August 14, 2025

Equinix

DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center

US data center firm DC Blox this week announced it has closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing for the construction of a data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia. The funds will support the development of a 120MW data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80MW,...

August 13, 2025

DC BLOX

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good ne...

August 13, 2025

QTS Data Centers

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri Kha...

August 12, 2025

Microsoft Azure

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

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 ...

August 09, 2025

Amazon AWS

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

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-ac...

August 08, 2025

Amazon AWS

Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa

Data center firm Edged this week said it had topped out its facility in Ankeny, just north of Des Moines, marking the completion of the building’s structural frame. The facility will offer 13MW of capacity across 105,000 sq ft (9,755 sqm) and utilize a waterless cooling system from sister comp...

August 08, 2025

Edged Energy

AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

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 imp...

August 07, 2025

Amazon AWS

Apollo to Acquire Stream Data Centers

US data center firm Stream will be acquired by Apollo Global Management following announcement that Apollo-managed funds have agreed to acquire a majority interest in Stream Data Centers (SDC) from Stream Realty Partners, a commercial real estate firm.Apollo said it is set to potentially deplo...

August 07, 2025

Stream Data Centers

Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania

Bitfarms, a cryptomining company pivoting to AI and HPC data centers, this week announced its partnership with T5 Data Centers to “advance HPC/AI development” at its Panther Creek campus in the state.The partnership will focus on pre-construction, design, planning, and development approval pro...

August 06, 2025

T5 Data Centers

AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

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 300,00...

August 06, 2025

Amazon AWS

Google, I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers

Google has signed agreements with utilities Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to enable demand response capabilities at its data centers doing machine learning (ML) workloads. The agreements are part of a broader strategy by Google to bring flexible demand c...

August 04, 2025

Google

AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

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 $29...

August 02, 2025

Amazon AWS

AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

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,...

July 31, 2025

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