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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

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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

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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

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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

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CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco

Formula One team Aston Martin Aramco has signed a multi-year agreement with AI cloud provider CoreWeave. As part of the partnership, CoreWeave will help Aston Martin Aramco to move its on-premises computing infrastructure to a cloud computing environment, which Aston Martin hopes will "elimina...

May 24, 2025

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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

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Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU

Google has announced a series of additional security and sovereignty elements for its sovereign cloud in response to EU groups' concerns about trade tensions and the reliance on US tech companies.The move comes as European groups are raising concerns about the potential for the Trump administr...

May 23, 2025

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Microsoft Confirms Provision of AI and Cloud Services to Israeli Military

Microsoft has confirmed that it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the ongoing war in Gaza, though it denies its technology was used to harm people. The cloud company released a statement on May 15 in response to "concerns from our employees and the public" abo...

May 22, 2025

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Digital Realty to Purchase 5.1MW of Solar Energy from Summit Ridge Energy

Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a comb...

May 22, 2025

Digital Realty Trust

Google Signs 600MW Solar Energy Deal in South Carolina

Google has signed an energy deal to procure renewable energy credits (RECs) in South Carolina that allows Google to invest in and purchase RECs from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by EnergyRe in South Carolina."Strengthening the gri...

May 21, 2025

Google

AWS Retires Private 5G Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an update published on May 20, revealed that its 5G service had reached the end of its support date and could no longer be accessed. The Private 5G offering integrated small cell radio units, Outposts servers, a 5G core, and radio access network (RAN) software runn...

May 21, 2025

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Merlin Edged Launches Barcelona Data Center

Merlin Edged has launched a data center in Barcelona, inaugurated today by the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, and Albert Tort, Secretary of Telecommunications and Digital Transformation of the Government at Generalitat de Catalunya. This facility will be used by neocloud Coreweave. "We'll...

May 16, 2025

CoreWeave

Insurer Marsh McLennan Selects AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider

Insurance giant Marsh McLennan has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider across its four global businesses - Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. The company will migrate the majority of its global on-premises infrastructure to AWS, significantly reducing the company's physic...

May 16, 2025

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Equinix Launches First Indonesian Data Center in Jakarta

Equinix this week inaugurated its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Jakarta via a joint venture with PT Astra International Tbk. JK1 is an eight-story facility offering 550 cabinets in the first phase. At full build-out, the facility will offer a total capacity of 1,60...

May 15, 2025

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Microsoft to Purchase 1.5 Million Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in India

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.5 million tons of carbon removal credits over the next 30 years from a large-scale afforestation project in India. The agreement was signed with Climate Impact Partners, a provider of carbon markets solutions, and Terra Natural Capital, a firm that offers cli...

March 14, 2025

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Riot Platforms plans expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is considering an expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads and has appointed three new directors to its board to evaluate whether spare capacity can be repurposed.Riot, which develops some of the largest mining facilities in t...

February 12, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft acquires land in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for data center development

Microsoft has purchased another 240 acres of land in Wisconsin for data center projects. The land in question is nearby to Microsoft's existing Mount Pleasant project, construction on which was "paused" at the start of this year. At the time, Microsoft said: “We have paused early construction ...

January 30, 2025

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Verizon Launches AI-centric Network ffering

Verizon has launched a new AI-centric network offering called Verizon AI Connect, an integrated suite of solutions and products designed to “enable businesses to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) workloads at scale.” The telco s looking to make its underutilized data center assets available ...

January 27, 2025

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Canadian gov't urges Amazon to reconsider shutting down the distribution centers in Quebec

Amazon announced this week that it would be closing seven warehouses in Quebec over the next two months, cutting more than 1,700 workers as a result. Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry - François-Philippe Champagne - has written to Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy, requesting the co...

January 25, 2025

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AWS to invest in cloud infrastructure in Maharashta, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to invest $8.3 billion in developing cloud infrastructure for its AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region in Maharashtra, India. The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on January 22, 2025, during the World Economic Forum 2025 to formalize the pl...

January 24, 2025

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