January 10, 2025 Compass Datacenters
Compass Datacenters is to develop a new $10 billion data center campus in Mississippi. The $10 billion figure was the total investment value of the campus, including IT equipment by customers, rather than the company's individual investment figure. “We are looking forward to building our next...
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January 09, 2025 Amazon AWS
Snack and confectionary company Mondelēz International has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider and will move its entire ERP landscape to SAP RISE powered by AWS among others. The company hopes that the move will improve the security, agility, and reliability of its...
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January 09, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is planning to expand its cloud computing services in Luxembourg through its Microsoft Belux (Belgium-Luxembourg) department. This will give Luxembourg-based customers access to Microsoft's cloud computing offerings while maintaining data sovereignty and reducing latency.In a report by...
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January 09, 2025 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest around $11 billion in data centers in Georgia which will be used to support growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and is expected to create at least 550 new jobs. "We are delighted to expand our infrastructure...
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January 07, 2025 Kyndryl
IBM and GlobalFoundries (GF) have reached a settlement in their long-running legal dispute which saw both companies claim breach of contract and misuse of trade secrets and intellectual property. The two companies said the undisclosed settlement resolves “all litigation matters” and would allow...
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December 16, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft this week that it will make a "significant extension of its global data center footprint to Western Australia (WA) to help meet the growing demand for cloud and AI services across the state and support economic growth." The expansion will see Microsoft deploy an Azure Extended Zone to...
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December 14, 2024 Amazon AWS
The Co-operative Bank is migrating its applications from on-premise environments to Amazon Web Services, selecting IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl to aid with the migration and hopes that the move to AWS will reduce ongoing costs and improve service delivery for both employees and...
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December 13, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval in...
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December 12, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval in...
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December 12, 2024 Google
Google has announced its latest quantum computing chip, 'Willow,' claiming that the processor performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes, which would otherwise take 1025 years on a conventional supercomputer. Google said that the new chip has 105 qubits, which can retain an...
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December 11, 2024 Google
Google has launched its self-developed Trillium AI accelerators which are designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Trillium is Google's sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), described as being Google's "most advanced TPU," capable of achieving a 4.7x increase in peak compute...
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December 06, 2024 QTS Data Centers
Avangrid and Portland General Electric (PGE) have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with QTS and Meta for energy from a 120MW solar energy project under construction in Morrow County, Oregon. This project will deliver energy to the PGE grid through the Green Future Impact (GFI) program, a...
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December 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
Veon's Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar has this week announced the launch of a generative AI lab in partnership with Amazon Web Services. According to the company, the purpose of the launch is to support Ukrainian enterprises in introducing AI technologies, as part of an effort to boost the...
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December 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage offering is now available via AWS Dedicated Local Zones, one of its on-premise cloud offerings. At the company's Re:Invent 2024 conference, AWS also revealed new S3 solutions: S3 Tables and S3 Metadata. The storage classes are designed to store data within a...
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December 04, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching EC2 instances featuring the latest Nvidia GPUs and Trainium chips. At this week's Re:Invent event in Las Vegas, the cloud giant revealed plans for its Trainium3 chip after unveiling the EC2 during a keynote speech by CEO Matt Garman. Garman revealed three...
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November 30, 2024 Amazon AWS
The UK's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is undergoing a cloud migration as it revealed plans to move its IT systems including finance, HR, and procurement to RISE with SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The BBC hopes that moving its IT systems to the cloud will be more cost-effective than...
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November 29, 2024 Amazon AWS
Health technology company Royal Philips has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. Philips' integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud will be expanded including radiology, digital pathology, cardiology, and AI-advanced visualized solutions.“The collaboration between Philips and...
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November 27, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed with SSAB to pilot the use of green steel in one of its three new data centers in Sweden. The green steel will be used to construct the roof and wall structures at the AWS Västerås data center. SSAB subsidiary Ruukki Construction will supply the steel for the...
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November 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program. The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg, two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district."The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is an...
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November 26, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Aussie retailer Coles Group has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Coles will be using Microsoft's cloud, AI, and Edge computing offerings to develop an AI-as-a-Service platform and to modernize its IT estate. The agreement is hoped...
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