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Read Microsoft to purchase one million tons of carbon energy credits
Microsoft to purchase one million tons of carbon energy credits

Microsoft to purchase one million tons of carbon energy credits

May 24, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is buying one million tons of carbon removal credits from a renewable energy company in Denmark, following its aim to invest in carbon capture technology. The tech giant will purchase the credits from Avedøre power station in Copenhagen, which is operated by energy company Ørsted, in a...

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Read STT GDC expands into Vietnam
STT GDC expands into Vietnam

STT GDC expands into Vietnam

May 18, 2024 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is expanding into Vietnam and has announced a joint venture partnership with Vietnamese technology company VNG Corporation for the “development, construction, and operation of data center projects in Ho Chi Minh City.” “We are thrilled to partner with...

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Read Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly
Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly

Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly

May 18, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich recently claimed that Microsoft will be deploying the equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers every single month. That would represent the equivalent of 72,000 H100 GPUs every month, spread out across the company's growing data center footprint, and a...

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Read Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center
Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center

Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center

May 14, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft recently announced that it will be investing $3.3 billion in the AI data center it is building in Wisconsin to “expand its national cloud and AI infrastructure capacity.” The company will also be co-funding a new solar energy project which will generate 250MW of power. Microsoft noted...

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Read Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region
Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region

Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region

May 11, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Te Tumu Paeroa, the office of the Maori Trustee, has signed an agreement to become the anchor tenant of Microsoft's upcoming New Zealand cloud region. The agreement with Microsoft and associated cloud migration is hoped to help landowners recover from major weather events more quickly, support...

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Read Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil
Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil

Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil

May 10, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft this week has finalized its carbon removal project with Re green in a deal which will fund the restoration of more than 16,000 hectares of degraded pastureland across Brazil (over half of which is already acquired with restoration activities underway), including in the States of...

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Read Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland
Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland

Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland

May 07, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft revealed this week that it has entered into a long-term deal to offtake the output of the newly commissioned Lenalea Wind Farm near Letterkenny, County Donegal. "At Microsoft, we are committed to playing our part in supporting the decarbonization of energy grids in markets in which we...

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Read Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden
Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden

Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden

May 06, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed the world’s largest carbon capture deal with Stockholm Exergi to remove carbon from an upcoming biomass plant in Sweden. The deal will cover 3.33 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm. “We are...

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Read Microsoft signs renewable energy framework deal with Brookfield
Microsoft signs renewable energy framework deal with Brookfield

Microsoft signs renewable energy framework deal with Brookfield

May 01, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has entered an agreement to invest an estimated $10 billion in renewable electricity projects to be developed by Brookfield Asset Management. The “global framework agreement” signed by the cloud company is a commitment to bring 10.5 gigawatts of generating capacity online. “Microsoft...

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Read Microsoft plans Azure cloud region in Thailand
Microsoft plans Azure cloud region in Thailand

Microsoft plans Azure cloud region in Thailand

May 01, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed plans to build cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand, including a data center region as part of its digital infrastructure commitment to expand the availability of the company's hyperscale cloud services. At the Microsoft Build AI Day in Bangkok, Microsoft CEO Satya...

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Read Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore
Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore

Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore

April 29, 2024 Equinix

Colocation firm Equinix has signed long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Singapore fromSembcorp Industries. Following the agreements, Sembcorp Power will supply a maximum capacity of 75MWp from its solar assets and 30MW from its gas-power generation portfolio...

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Read Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion
Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

April 26, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, during its quarterly earnings call revealed that its cloud unit surpassed $31.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, up by 24 percent YoY. This led to a 4% increase in the company’s stock market, bridging the value to $128 billion. "We have the most comprehensive cloud footprint with...

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Read Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola
Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

April 24, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion investment to use Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of a five-year agreement that will see Microsoft support Coca-Cola's core technology strategy systemwide. “This new agreement builds on the success of Coca-Cola’s partnership...

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Read Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers
Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers

Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers

April 18, 2024 Edge Centres

Italian fiber firm Open Fiber (formerly Enel Open Fiber) is planning to move into Edge data centers. Andrea Lazzaroli, operational marketing business market manager at Open Fiber, said the company will be deploying Edge data centers along its network. “With the introduction of Edge data centers,...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing
EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

April 12, 2024 EdgeConneX

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robust...

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Read Edge Centres purchases QuadraNet
Edge Centres purchases QuadraNet

Edge Centres purchases QuadraNet

April 08, 2024 Edge Centres

Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US colocation and bare metal provider QuadraNet, sucessfully adding 10 facilities to its US footprint. QuadraNet says it has more than 1,000 active customers and facilities located in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Jersey, Reston,...

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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 Stack Infrastructure breaks ground on 60MW data center expansion in California
 Stack Infrastructure breaks ground on 60MW data center expansion in California

Stack Infrastructure breaks ground on 60MW data center expansion in California

March 29, 2024 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

IPI-owned company Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. The company plans to build two data centers to add 60MW of capacity, an advanced manufacturing facility, and a parking structure, spanning 19 acres....

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Read PDG completes first phase of Tokyo data center
PDG completes first phase of Tokyo data center

PDG completes first phase of Tokyo data center

March 27, 2024 Princeton Digital Group

Data center operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has completed the first phase of its 96MW data center campus, TY1, in Tokyo, Japan which included the core and shell construction of a six-story facility, expected to supply 48MW of IT capacity. The TY1 data center located in Saitama City, 30km...

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Read Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations
Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

March 23, 2024 Equinix

Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at least...

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