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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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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August 04, 2025 Google
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...
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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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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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July 24, 2025 Google
Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage (LDES) company, Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company’s CO2 battery technology. The company has developed a 20MW/200MWh battery, which it claims has a lifetime of more...
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July 22, 2025 Equinix
Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...
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July 17, 2025 Google
Westinghouse Electric Company is teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI for the construction of nuclear reactors. Under the agreement with Google, Westinghouse will combine its existing HiVE and bertha nuclear AI solutions with Google Cloud technologies to help improve both the construction of...
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July 16, 2025 Google
Google has won a contract valued up to $200 million with the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Intelligence Office (CDAO) to provide infrastructure for AI. Under the contract with Google Public Sector, the DoD can access Google's cloud infrastructure, including its tensor...
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July 15, 2025 Google
Frontier, a carbon credit purchasing consortium that counts Google and Meta as founding members, this week announced it has facilitated $1.75 million of carbon removal purchases from Karbonetiq (United States), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada) on behalf of buyers Stripe, Shopify, and...
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July 14, 2025 Google
Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Renewable this week announced a first-of-its-kind Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) with Google to deliver up to 3,000MW of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States.Under the agreement, hydroelectric assets will be relicensed,...
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July 11, 2025 Google
Google Cloud and the UK government are teaming up to tackle the UK's reliance on legacy IT as both parties hope to save taxpayer money by replacing old technology. Google has also teamed up with the Imperial War Museum to digitize and transcribe its oral history collection, and is working with...
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June 26, 2025 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
APAC data center firm ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has launched a new data center in Tokyo, Japan.Tokyo 1 is the first of two buildings at the company’s STT Tokyo campus within the Goodman Business Park, Inzai. The campus will support up to 70MW of IT load when completed, with STT...
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June 26, 2025 Google
Google has spent $14 million to buy a plot of land for a data center development in Botetourt County, Virginia. The deal for the 312-acre site at the Botetourt Center industrial park, Greenfield, was announced on Tuesday.“We are always looking for communities that have the innovative and...
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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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June 19, 2025 Google
Canadian wealth and asset management company IGM Financial has completed a data center migration project to the public cloud and is now using Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its operations.“The successful delivery of the data center migration to the public cloud underscores...
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June 14, 2025 NEXTDC
Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced a AU$2 billion (US$1.29bn) commitment to develop M4 Melbourne — a new campus at 127 Todd Road in Port Melbourne. The company said the site will host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engineered for sovereign AI. NextDC said the factory...
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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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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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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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