January 30, 2025 Microsoft Azure
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...
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January 21, 2025 Google
International pharmaceutical group Servier has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate the research and development (R&D) of pharmaceuticals.This expanded five-year agreement will see Servier using Google Cloud's AI offerings for R&D. Google Cloud will help Servier to...
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January 15, 2025 Google
Google Cloud and Formula E have announced that they will be entering a new multi-year artificial intelligence (AI) and technology partnership. As part of the agreement, Google Cloud will serve as Formula E’s Official Cloud Technology Services Partner and Official Cloud Security Partner.Jeff...
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January 15, 2025 Google
Everseen and Google Cloud are partnering on a Vision AI offering for retail stores, combining Everseen's Vision AI platform with Google Distribute Cloud and Google's Vertex AI platform."Our goal is to provide Vision AI solutions that drive measurable results for retailers— reducing shrink,...
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January 15, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Uranium prices have hit an all-time high, with artificial intelligence data centers driving increased demand for nuclear fuel. comes as large data center operators have begun prioritizing nuclear power as a crucial energy source for their operations. According to an FT report, the price of...
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January 09, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is planning to expand its cloud computing services in Luxembourg through its Microsoft Belux (Belgium-Luxembourg) department. This will give Luxembourg-based customers access to Microsoft's cloud computing offerings while maintaining data sovereignty and reducing latency.In a report by...
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December 16, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft this week that it will make a "significant extension of its global data center footprint to Western Australia (WA) to help meet the growing demand for cloud and AI services across the state and support economic growth." The expansion will see Microsoft deploy an Azure Extended Zone to...
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December 13, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval in...
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December 12, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval in...
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December 12, 2024 Google
Google has announced its latest quantum computing chip, 'Willow,' claiming that the processor performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes, which would otherwise take 1025 years on a conventional supercomputer. Google said that the new chip has 105 qubits, which can retain an...
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December 11, 2024 Google
Google has launched its self-developed Trillium AI accelerators which are designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Trillium is Google's sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), described as being Google's "most advanced TPU," capable of achieving a 4.7x increase in peak compute...
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November 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program. The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg, two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district."The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is an...
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November 26, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Aussie retailer Coles Group has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Coles will be using Microsoft's cloud, AI, and Edge computing offerings to develop an AI-as-a-Service platform and to modernize its IT estate. The agreement is hoped...
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November 18, 2024 Google
Google DeepMind has published a research paper hitting back at criticism of its AI chip design system AlphaChip. That paper claimed that AlphaChip was able to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation of Google TPU AI accelerator, and was already being used by the company to...
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November 15, 2024 Finland
Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine...
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November 14, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in SQL...
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November 08, 2024 Google
Saudi Arabia-based dairy company Almarai is moving its critical systems to Google Cloud and hopes that this will improve its scalability and flexibility while remaining cost-effective. The data will be hosted in Google Cloud's Saudi Arabia region, enabling the company to meet digital sovereignty...
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November 07, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was "at...
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November 05, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...
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October 29, 2024 Google
American investment banking and financial services firm Citi has signed a multi-year contract with Google Cloud to use its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. The agreement will see Citi migrate several workloads and applications to Google Cloud, and use Google Cloud's...
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