April 27, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that it has opened its first data center region in Poland, which consists of three independent physical locations around Warsaw. The giant shared that this expansion is in response to the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and fast and reliable access to...
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April 26, 2023 Telia Company
The Swedish telecommunications company Telia Company has agreed to transfer its Danish operations to the energy and telecommunications corporation Norlys for $919.85 million. Telia explains that its strategy is to concentrate on markets where it can obtain and defend a market-leading position....
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April 26, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack has applied for approval to expand its San Jose, California data center campus. This week, the San Jose City planning commission will consider Stack's request to construct two data centers at 2400 Ringwood Avenue and 1880 Fortune Drive in Santa Clara County, as first reported by SF Yimby....
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April 25, 2023 Microsoft Azure
After what has been a long road, potted with controversy and setbacks, Microsoft has obtained construction permission for its data center in the Hollands Kroon area in the north of the Netherlands, after a protracted permitting process. While permission has now been granted, back in 2021, the...
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April 19, 2023 Microsoft Azure
In Racine County, Microsoft's $1 billion data center campus in Wisconsin has been given the go-ahead by The Racine County Board of Supervisors after initially receiving Village Board approval. As per the deal, the tech giant will begin the first phase of construction by July 2026, with the second...
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April 18, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Following news that Microsoft has acquired over 30 more acres of land in Chicago, Illinois, it is believed that the giant will be expanding its data center presence in the region. The land, purchased for $41.5 million, is reportedly set to house two 207,000-square-foot (19,230 sqm) data centers....
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April 14, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's new cloud data center region in Saudi Arabia has faced criticism since the tech giant announced its plans in early February. Now, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for Microsoft to suspend its investment in the country until it can "clearly demonstrate" how it plans to mitigate the...
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April 14, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin...
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April 14, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Authomize, a leading cloud security and authorization platform, has announced that its services are now available in Microsoft data centers in Australia. This expansion brings Authomize's innovative platform closer to Australian businesses seeking advanced security solutions. According to the...
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April 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A,...
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April 12, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has filed plans to construct a new data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. This week, the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers got a joint license application for Federal and State clearances from the corporation. According to the application – labeled LYH03 Bailey –...
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April 11, 2023 Microsoft Azure
As AI continues its rapid evolution, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is sounding the alarm, arguing that AI should not only be paused, as recommended by the Future of Life Institute, but stopped entirely. Yudkowsky has been a vocal critic of AI for over two decades, and says that...
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April 04, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, and...
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March 31, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is set...
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March 29, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The...
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March 28, 2023 atNorth
BNP Paribas, a long-time client of atNorth, a prominent pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance processing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has revealed that it is still moving some of its workloads to the Nordic area. This will allow the top financial institution to keep up with...
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March 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there is...
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March 23, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site in...
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March 21, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle, and...
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March 17, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has signed up for the Swiss Winter Reserve Plan, through which it will provide its supplemental power capacity to the Swiss energy reserve, in line with the Federal Council's ordinance. The ordinance includes measures to prevent winter power shortages and will run until April...
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