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2Africa cable now live between South Africa and Kenya

Airtel Africa announced on LinkedIn that a large portion of the 2Africa cable, connecting Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, is now operational. It currently is the world’s largest subsea cable and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The cable is e...

June 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

Du to unveil cloud and sovereign AI services for UAE

Du, an Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC)-owned company is set to deploy Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to the government and public sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company will focus its offering on Dubai and the Northern Emirates and wi...

June 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

DPA Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa

Digital Parks Africa (DPA) has revealed plans to extend its Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa by 4.5MW, adding 810 sqm and 570 racks as it currently offers more than 1,620 sqm of dedicated whitespace with the potential to expand to more than 9,000 sqm and 24MW.“The...

June 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...

June 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amsterdam

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sign new cloud offering agreement

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement for the football club to deploy HPE GreenLake and Aruba Networks at its new facilities. Following this agreement, HPE will be the new Espai Barça Official Edge-to-Cloud Partner for the next four seasons, until 30 June ...

June 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Barcelona

Andra cuts energy use by switching to Pure Storage

France's nuclear waste agency, Andra, has cut down its energy usage and cooling costs by as much as 20 percent through the switch by moving from old HPE equipment to Pure Storage hardware.According to Olivier Tardy, head of infrastructure operations in the department of the CIO at Andra, the a...

June 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

BlackRock acquires majority stake in Mainova WebHouse.

German energy firm the Mainova Group this week announced it had sold 50.1 percent of its shares in Mainova WebHouse GmbH to a fund managed by BlackRock's Diversified Infrastructure Team in a deal that would open up new growth potential for data centers in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region.“M...

June 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

BGO invests €350 million into Norway's Bulk

Real estate investment management firm BentallGreenOak has invested another €350 million ($380m) into Nordic data center operator Bulk which will be used to ‘accelerate Bulk’s growth plans.’“The latest investment by BGO will fuel our ambitions to shift the gravity for global and European large...

June 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Norway

Ooredoo Group names Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub

Qatari telco Ooredoo Group has named Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub, its newly established carrier-neutral data center branch, set up to provide colocation services to hyperscalers in the Middle East region.“Sunita’s appointment marks an exciting milestone in our journey to trans...

June 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Qatar

Eaton invests in European data center power module firm

Power management company Eaton announced it has completed a “significant strategic investment” in NordicEPOD AS, which designs and assembles standardized power modules for data centers in the Nordic region.“We are delighted to be partnering with Eaton. Their global reach and commitment to Nord...

June 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Iron Mountain signs solar energy deal with InRange in UK

Iron Mountain has signed a new energy deal to procure solar power from rooftop solar sites in the UK which InRange which will supply 5MW annually to offset Iron Mountain’s LON-1 facility, aggregated from locally generated rooftop solar power from commercial and industrial buildings.“In our pur...

June 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby calls for telecoms infrastructure improvement

BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby this week called for the UK to improve its existing telecoms infrastructure. Kirkby, who joined the company earlier this year from Swedish telco Telia, also said that the Nordics is "way ahead" of the UK in telecoms infrastructure."What I would say is Scandinavia is...

June 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

Manx Telecom unveils dedicated data center division

Isle of Man telecom’s group Manx Telecom has launched a dedicated data center division with the aim to meet "the increasing demand from businesses across the UK offering secure and reliable data storage solutions within the UK Customs Zone.”Stephen Kane, director of commercial strategy at Man...

June 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

French telco group Iliad to invest in OpCore data center unit

French telco group Iliad has revealed plans to invest billions of Euros into its OpCore data center unit as it aims to expand that business unit over the next decade. The company plans to invest €2.5 billion in organic developments, supported by Iliad and a future financial partner and has al...

June 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

NcodiN closes a €3.5 million funding round

NcodiN, a French optical interposer startup, has closed a €3.5 million ($3.8m) funding round, with Elaia, Earlybird, and OVNI Capita amongst the investors as the company looks to improve chiplet-to-chiplet communications with optical interposer technology.The company said the technology will e...

May 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Sparkle lands BlueMed Subsea cable in Crete

Sparkle, part of the Telecom Italia Group, has landed its BlueMed subsea cable which connects Italy with France, Greece, and several countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, before ending in Jordan in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete. The system is part of the Blue & Raman cable bui...

May 22, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Italian government approves Swisscom's acquisition of Vodafone Italy

Swisscom revealed that the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers "unconditionally approved the acquisition pursuant to the golden power legislation." Swisscom noted that it was informed that its acquisition of Vodafone would not threaten competition within the Italian telecoms market....

May 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha team up for sovereign AI solutions

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha have entered an agreement to develop sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, first focusing on creating generative AI models that are trained to a high degree of accuracy. This will be done alongside BWI GmBH, the German public IT services provider ow...

May 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

UK joins European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

The United Kingdom has become a part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), allowing British researchers and scientists to apply for Horizon Europe-funded research and innovation calls relating to supercomputing. Following this agreement. he UK will also hav...

May 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities

Zayo Group has announced plans to split its business into two independent entities, with one unit focusing on the company's European business and the other focusing on Zayo's business outside of its core European and North American markets.“The transition of our European business into an indep...

May 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

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