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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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Virtus reveals plans for new campus in Buckinghamshire, UK

UK data center company Virtus, owned by STT GDC and Macquarie Asset Management, announced plans for a new campus in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, as it revealed the acquisition of a 50-acre plot in the village, located near High Wycombe and north of existing data center hub Slough. Virtus CEO N...

February 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

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 ...

February 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

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 co...

February 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far fro...

February 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

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 devel...

January 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offic...

January 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Google to expand data center footprint in London

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....

January 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

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 L...

January 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

Google revealed in a recent announcement that it will be joining a consortium to deploy the first subsea cable between Chile and Australia. The company said, “Today, we’re joining Desarrollo País of Chile and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to announce Humboldt...

January 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their dat...

January 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

GlobalFoundries signs multi-year PPA with Keppel

GlobalFoundries has signed a multi-year 150MW Power Purchase Agreement with Keppel to procure renewable energy for the chip manufacturer’s Singapore site. Following this agreement, Keppel will provide GlobalFoundries with between 150 and 180MW of energy from May 2024. The companies said in a j...

January 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Keppel Data Center REIT

ST Telemedia GDC raises $338 million in SLP securities

Singapore's ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) announced this week that it has raised $338.14 million in sustainability-linked perpetual securities. This loan falls under the company's $1.13bn multicurrency debt issuance program will be used for "general corporate purposes" such as th...

January 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

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