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AtlasEdge names Tesh Durvasula as CEO

European Edge provider AtlasEdge has appointed Tesh Durvasula as CEO to succeed Giuliano Di Vitantonio, who will move into the role of chairman of the AtlasEdge board.“It has been a true privilege to lead AtlasEdge through its first chapter. Since launching in late 2021, we have built a data c...

May 22, 2024

AtlasEdge

Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich recently claimed that Microsoft will be deploying the equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers every single month. That would represent the equivalent of 72,000 H100 GPUs every month, spread out across the company's growing data center footprint, and a ...

May 18, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty launches new cooling colocation offering

Digital Realty this week announced the launch of a direct liquid cooling (DLC) offering, available in 170 Digital Realty data centers globally. The company noted that the offering includes a range of mechanical solutions, such as rear door heat exchangers (RDHx) and DLC, offering power densiti...

May 17, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center

Microsoft recently announced that it will be investing $3.3 billion in the AI data center it is building in Wisconsin to “expand its national cloud and AI infrastructure capacity.” The company will also be co-funding a new solar energy project which will generate 250MW of power.Microsoft noted...

May 14, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region

Te Tumu Paeroa, the office of the Maori Trustee, has signed an agreement to become the anchor tenant of Microsoft's upcoming New Zealand cloud region. The agreement with Microsoft and associated cloud migration is hoped to help landowners recover from major weather events more quickly, support...

May 11, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil

Microsoft this week has finalized its carbon removal project with Re green in a deal which will fund the restoration of more than 16,000 hectares of degraded pastureland across Brazil (over half of which is already acquired with restoration activities underway), including in the States of Mara...

May 10, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty launches new data center in Japan

Digital Realty has broken ground on a new data center outside Tokyo, Japan, marking its third data center at the NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba prefecture. This new 31MW facility, known as NRT14, will be configurable to support private AI deployments at densities up to 70kW per rack via air-assist...

May 10, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland

Microsoft revealed this week that it has entered into a long-term deal to offtake the output of the newly commissioned Lenalea Wind Farm near Letterkenny, County Donegal."At Microsoft, we are committed to playing our part in supporting the decarbonization of energy grids in markets in which we...

May 07, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden

Microsoft has signed the world’s largest carbon capture deal with Stockholm Exergi to remove carbon from an upcoming biomass plant in Sweden. The deal will cover 3.33 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm.“We ar...

May 06, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs renewable energy framework deal with Brookfield

Microsoft has entered an agreement to invest an estimated $10 billion in renewable electricity projects to be developed by Brookfield Asset Management. The “global framework agreement” signed by the cloud company is a commitment to bring 10.5 gigawatts of generating capacity online.“Microsoft ...

May 01, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans Azure cloud region in Thailand

Microsoft has revealed plans to build cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand, including a data center region as part of its digital infrastructure commitment to expand the availability of the company's hyperscale cloud services.At the Microsoft Build AI Day in Bangkok, Microsoft CEO Satya Nad...

May 01, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

Microsoft, during its quarterly earnings call revealed that its cloud unit surpassed $31.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, up by 24 percent YoY. This led to a 4% increase in the company’s stock market, bridging the value to $128 billion. "We have the most comprehensive cloud footprint with...

April 26, 2024

Microsoft Azure

AtlasEdge plans expansion into Portugal

European Edge firm AtlasEdge announced this week that it is planning to develop data centers in Portugal and has ebtered the market with the acquisition of two adjacent sites in Lisbon that will deliver more than 20MW of IT load.“Our entry into the Portuguese market provides us with a key foot...

April 25, 2024

AtlasEdge

Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion investment to use Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of a five-year agreement that will see Microsoft support Coca-Cola's core technology strategy systemwide.“This new agreement builds on the success of Coca-Cola’s partnership ...

April 24, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty to partner with Enel X for grid balancing UPS systems

Digital Realty has revealed that it will be partnering with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. The integrated battery banks, housed within Digital Realty’s Irish data centers, will relieve grid dependence on fossil fuel power plants during periods of frequenc...

April 24, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

April 15, 2024

Lumen Technologies

Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

Microsofr this week announced that it has entered into a two 200MW Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Energy firm Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) which will help it purchase the power generated from two 200MW LRE solar facilities currently under development in Texas: Morrow Lake Solar in Frio...

April 02, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

IT services provider Advania and colocation company atNorth have agreed to a deal that will see Advania take extra capacity at atNorth’s ICE03 site in Iceland, a 12MW data center in Akureyri that opened last year. A statement from both companies noted that “The expansion onto the ICE03 campus ...

March 29, 2024

atNorth

Stack Infrastructure breaks ground on 60MW data center expansion in California

IPI-owned company Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. The company plans to build two data centers to add 60MW of capacity, an advanced manufacturing facility, and a parking structure, spanning 19 acre...

March 29, 2024

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

AtlasEdge relaunches Leeds data center

European data center firm AtlasEdge has relaunched a data center in Leeds, UK, after acquiring and renovating the facility. AtlasEdge has since invested more than £13 million to upgrade the site, known as LBA001, which is the first Tier III standard data center in the city. "We are delighted t...

March 23, 2024

AtlasEdge

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