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Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project

Electronics giant Philips and AWS have partnered for a medical technology project to make digitalized pathology slides available at scale in the cloud. This is an expansion of the existing relationship with both companies, with Philips having selected AWS as its cloud partner seven years ago. ...

March 16, 2024

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Vast Data unveils AI architecture developed with Nvidia

AI data platform Vast Data has unveiled an AI architecture for data centers,built in partnership with Nvidia. The data platform claims that the new system will deliver improved performance and quality of service, as well as enhanced zero-trust security. Jeff Denworth, co-founder at Vast Data, ...

March 15, 2024

VAZATA

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 20...

March 14, 2024

Equinix

Edgecore completes $440 million debt financing deal

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has completely secured a $440 million debt financing deal for its Silicon Valley data center buildout. This deal along with a $1.9 billion deal secured in January, were both structured as Green Loans, with ING Capital LLC as the sole Green Loan Structuring Agent...

March 14, 2024

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Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

Meta has shared the details of the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that make up its two new 24,000-GPU data center scale training clusters. These clusters based on Meta’s AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) are being usedto train its Llama 3 large language AI model. I...

March 13, 2024

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Wex Inc. completes primary cloud migration

Global payment processing company Wex Inc. has completed its primary could migration with the full migration of the benefits segment in its annual report. The report did not disclse the cloud provider it moved to. However, the company in 2021 announced that it was entering into a multiyear mi...

March 06, 2024

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Amazon acquires Talen’s data center campus in Pennysylvania

Amazon Web Services has acquired Talen Energy’s 960MW Cumulusdata center campus at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. According to the investor presentation, Talen sold the site and assets of Cumulus Data for $650 million. The deal comprises $350 million at close and $300m escrowed, rel...

March 06, 2024

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Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and ...

March 01, 2024

Equinix

Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers

Platform.sh, a platform for building, running and scaling web applications, is offering customers a three percent 'greener region discount' when using a data center that consumes electricity that is less than 100gCO₂e/kWh. Customers have a choice of six data center regions across five countrie...

February 29, 2024

Microsoft Azure

NTT Docomo selects AWS for Japan Open RAN deployment

NTT Docomo has chosen Amazon Web Services to support the commercial deployment of its 5G Open RAN network in Japan. The company will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere), a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN. “Our philosophy at NTT D...

February 27, 2024

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Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center

A fatal incident has been reported at an electrical substation being built to supply power to a new Microsoft data center in London. Reports have it that a worker was trapped after an incident involving an aerial work platform at the Park Royal, site in Ealing last week, and died of his injur...

February 27, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Clumio raises $75m in new funding round

Public cloud data backup and recovery provider Clumio has raised $75m in a Series D round of funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Existing investors Index Ventures and Altimeter Capital, as well as new investor NewView Capital also participated in this round of funding. “Few markets are as bi...

February 22, 2024

Amazon AWS

Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of in...

February 21, 2024

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Microsoft to invest in cloud and AI infrastructure in Spain

Microsoft recently revealed a planned investment of $2.1 billion in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Spain over the next two years. This was revealed via a post on X by Microsoft Brad Smith following a meeting with the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez. "...

February 21, 2024

Microsoft Azure

NTT to build new data center campus outside Paris, France

NTT this week announced its NTT GDC unit will be developing its first data center campus outside Paris, France on a 35.5-acre site located 50km south of Paris in the municipalities of Le Coudray-Montceaux and Corbeil-Essonnes. This campus will total 84MW across three buildings. Doug Adams, CE...

February 17, 2024

NTT

Google confirms expansion in South Carolina

Global search and cloud company Google has confirmed it is behind a data center development project called the Project Dawson in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Details about this project including the campus specifications or project timelines have not been shared. “The Dorchester County Economic...

February 17, 2024

Google

Bloom Energy adds load ability to fuel cells

Fuel cell provider Bloom Energy has added the ability to follow loads to its fuel towers to enable better adjustment to variable demand and supply in microgrids and utilities.This new offering can be used by data center providers and others on microgrids, and also by the utility, who may use f...

February 16, 2024

Amazon AWS

FirstNet and AT&T announces $8 billion investment

US operator AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) have announced a ten-year, $8 billion investment to expand and upgrade the nationwide public safety network. FirstNet will invest $6.3 billion through its network contract with AT&T and "anticipates an additional $2...

February 15, 2024

AT&T

Yondr breaks ground on second building at Virignia campus

Yondr this week announced it has broken ground on a second building at its 48MW building data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, in partnership with local real estate firm JK Land Holdings. "We're thrilled to be part of this phase two groundbreaking project that not only enhances globa...

February 13, 2024

Yondr Group

Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon

Amazon has signed a new power purchase agreement to procure the output of a wind farm from Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. “We are proud to have signed this agreement with Amazon, a company that shares our commitment to accelerating the...

February 13, 2024

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