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Read Tape Ark migrates tape-based sports broadcast to Google Cloud
Tape Ark migrates tape-based sports broadcast to Google Cloud

Tape Ark migrates tape-based sports broadcast to Google Cloud

April 08, 2024 Google

Tape Ark has moved a significant collection of tape-based sports video footage to Google Cloud. The cloud ingest of the collection measures over 40 petabytes of video footage. By moving it to the cloud, the broadcaster will be able save time and money on the maintenance of the collection...

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Read Google procures over 1.5GW of cleanenergy in 12 months
Google procures over 1.5GW of cleanenergy in 12 months

Google procures over 1.5GW of cleanenergy in 12 months

April 04, 2024 Google

Google has signed more than 1.5GW worth of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the last 12 months. The company bought this amoung of clean energy through a new PPA procurement process developed in partnership with LevelTen Energy, which has now been released via the energy broker. “LEAP is...

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Read Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas
Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

April 02, 2024 Microsoft Azure

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...

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Read Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility
Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

March 29, 2024 atNorth

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...

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Read Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico
Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico

Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico

March 23, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a six-year carbon capture agreement with The Next 150 and its General Biochar Systems (GBS) business unit, which runs the biochar plant near the city of Guanajuato.. This agreement will see Microsoft purchase 95,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from a biochar plant...

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Read Google to invest in carbon capture projects
Google to invest in carbon capture projects

Google to invest in carbon capture projects

March 18, 2024 Google

Google has revealed its plans to invest $35 million into carbon capture projects, matching the US government's aim to purchase 35 million in carbon removal credits through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase program. Google announced this week, “We’re proud to be the...

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Read Ardian completes Verne acquisition
Ardian completes Verne acquisition

Ardian completes Verne acquisition

March 16, 2024 Verne Global

Investment firm Ardian this week said it had completed the acquisition of European data center firm Verne from UK infrastructure firm Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9). The company will support the expansion of Verne with up to $1.2bn committed investment through equity and debt to “deliver an...

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Read Google signs new energy contract in Mesa, Arizona
Google signs new energy contract in Mesa, Arizona

Google signs new energy contract in Mesa, Arizona

March 16, 2024 Google

Google has signed a new renewable energy agreement to power its operations in Mesa, Arizona. The company mentioned that this new agreement includes a mix of dedicated wind power, solar energy, and battery storage from three facilities operated by NextEra Energy Resources on SRP’s power grid in...

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Read Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters
Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

March 13, 2024 Microsoft Azure

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. In a...

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Read Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business
Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

March 04, 2024 Finland

Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of Cellnex's private network business for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition includes Edzcom, Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary that specializes in private networks for industrial environments.“By bringing Cellnex's private networks business unit under...

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Read Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers
Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers

Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers

February 29, 2024 Microsoft Azure

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 countries...

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Read Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center
Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center

Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center

February 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure

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 injuries...

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Read Microsoft to invest in cloud and AI infrastructure in Spain
Microsoft to invest in cloud and AI infrastructure in Spain

Microsoft to invest in cloud and AI infrastructure in Spain

February 21, 2024 Microsoft Azure

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. "I’m...

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Read Google confirms expansion in South Carolina
Google confirms expansion in South Carolina

Google confirms expansion in South Carolina

February 17, 2024 Google

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...

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Read Google unveils first data center campus in Norway
Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

February 12, 2024 Google

Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway, with the project scheduled to be fully live by 2026. “Now we are building a data center in Norway!,” Tine Austvoll Jensen, country director for Google Norway, announced on LinkedIn this week. “Today we have finally announced that...

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Read Microsoft plans new data center in South Africa
Microsoft plans new data center in South Africa

Microsoft plans new data center in South Africa

February 10, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, this week revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. “Still in the early phases of development, Microsoft aims to build out its cloud infrastructure in new areas of South Africa to meet growing demand from public sector and private organizations for...

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Read Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs
Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

February 09, 2024 Google

Kyndryl and Google Cloud, which have been working together since 2021, has agreed to an extended partnership which will see the digital infrastructure services provider offer its clients access to Google’s AI tools, including its Gemini large language models. Following this partnership, the...

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Read Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform
Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

January 19, 2024 Google

Global payment services company Worldline has agreed to migrate its operations to Google Cloud Platform as a part of its “Move to Cloud” program. Following this partnership, the payment service company will use Google’s Could Infrastructure and Google's data analytics and AI offerings to develop...

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Read Google to expand data center footprint in London
Google to expand data center footprint in London

Google to expand data center footprint in London

January 17, 2024 Google

Google this week announced it has commenced plans to expand its data center footprint in the UK with a new campus outside London in Hertfordshire. The company has started building a new facility on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, north of London. And plans to invest $1 billion in the project....

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Read Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team
Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

January 16, 2024 Google

Google Cloud recently announced that former Okta executive Oliver Parker has now been recruited by the company to lead a newly formed go-to-market (GTM) organization. Parker will now become the VP of AI to report directly to Google Cloud’s president of GTM, Adaire Fox-Martin. Parker wrote on...

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