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IGM Financial Migrates Services to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

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...

June 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

Microsoft this week launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country, located in the Santiago metropolitan region. This region is comprised of three independent physical locations - each with one or more data centers - is now operational.Tito Arciniega, president o...

June 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System

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 predi...

June 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Vantage Explores Data Center Development on Cloverleaf site

Vantage has been named as at least one of the companies set to develop data centers in Port Washington, Wisconsin, on up to 1,900 acres north of the Ozaukee County town, west of I-43, and east of the Ozaukee Interurban Trail between Lake Drive and Dixie Road.The company is “in the early stages...

June 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

CyrusOne Plans 90MW Facility in Buckinghamshire, UK

US operator CyrusOne this week announced its sixth campus in the UK, LON6. Located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, the new site is set to deliver 90MW of IT capacity across 30,000 square meters (322,917 sq ft) of technical space. The campus will feature four two-story and two single-story data...

June 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CyrusOne

Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

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 m...

June 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK

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 gr...

June 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Iberia Airlines Migrates to 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 Dyn...

June 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS Establishes European Sovereign Cloud as Separate Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established a new company for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in light of increasing anxiety expressed by European customers. AWS European Sovereign Cloud will now have an independent European governance structure and its own dedicated Security Operations Center,...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon to Invest $10bn in North Carolina

Amazon has revealed plans to invest $10 billion for the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, and is expected to bring 500 full time jobs to the region.“Artificial intelligence is changing the way we wor...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Vantage Secures $5 Billion in Green Loans

Vantage Data Centers has secured $5 billion in incremental green loan financings to meet data center demand in the US which includes a $2.25 billion financing to fully fund construction of the company’s campus in New Albany, Ohio, as well as a $2.75 billion upsizing of an existing $3 billion 2...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Google to Invest $7bn in Iowa Expansion

Google announced over the weekend that it is "investing an additional $7 billion in Iowa within the next two years in cloud and AI infrastructure, as well as in expanded workforce development programs, meaningfully increasing the pace of investments the company has made in the state since 2007...

June 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

CyrusOne, E.ON Partner on 61MW Onsite Power System

CyrusOne has partnered with European energy company E.ON to develop an on-site gas-fired power system at Cyrus’ FRA7 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. This agreement will see E.ON construct the IQ Energy Center, which is expected to have a capacity of 61MW at full buildout. According to Matt ...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CyrusOne

Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina

Google has expanded a partnership with Arable to support water sustainability efforts across North and South Carolina which will see the deployment of Arable's in-field irrigation technology to hundreds of fields across the two states.As part of the agreement, Google will provide funding for t...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint

Microsoft has revealed that it will be expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland with a $400 million investment which will "further strengthen Switzerland's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, including the provision of cutting-edge graphics processing units (GPUs)."Microso...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud

Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud to use the latter's computing and AI solutions. Under the MoU, use the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Air Gapped offering. The MoU will see HTX and Google work together on...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Microsoft Launches Cloud Region in Malaysia

Microsoft has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three availability zones. The region is described by Microsoft as "AI-ready" and will provide Malaysian organisations with Microsoft cloud services offering in-country data residency.YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister ...

May 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons

Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transp...

May 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to Purchase Carbon Removal Credits from Exomad Green

Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase 1.24 million tons of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green, in the largest biochar removal agreement to date. The ten-year deal will see the tech giant purchase removal credits generated from Exomad's biochar operations in Concepción and Riberalta, B...

May 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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