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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April 25, 2024 AtlasEdge
European Edge firm AtlasEdge announced this week that it is planning to develop data centers in Portugal and has ebtered the market with the acquisition of two adjacent sites in Lisbon that will deliver more than 20MW of IT load. “Our entry into the Portuguese market provides us with a key...
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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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April 15, 2024 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice,...
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April 15, 2024 Virgin Media Business
Virgin Media O2 said in anew announcement that it will use Starlink satellites to provide network connectivity in remote rural areas of the UK to accelerate its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout. The company has already deployed its Starlink mobile backhaul to some of its most remote sites in...
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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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March 23, 2024 AtlasEdge
European data center firm AtlasEdge has relaunched a data center in Leeds, UK, after acquiring and renovating the facility. AtlasEdge has since invested more than £13 million to upgrade the site, known as LBA001, which is the first Tier III standard data center in the city. "We are delighted to...
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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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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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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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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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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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February 17, 2024 Virgin Media Business
UK telco Virgin Media O2 has achieved a new milestone after delivering its 100th site as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) program via helicopter to the Isle of Skye. The Shared rural Network is aimed at supporting some of the UK's most remote areas and is supported by the mobile industry...
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February 16, 2024 Virgin Media Business
Virgin Media O2, along with major shareholders, Liberty Global and Telefónica, has revealed plans to create a national fixed network company that can challenge BT's Openreach in the UK. The telco signaled its intention to go toe-to-toe with Openreach and noted that NetCo will "underpin full fiber...
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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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January 16, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Vodafone has signed a 10-year agreement with Microsoft for generative AI, cloud computing, and IoT services. As part of this agreement, Vodafone will invest $1.5bn in the cloud giant and will be using Microsoft Azure's OpenAI and Copilot technologies for its customer experience, exit "multiple"...
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January 15, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have partnered to find the best materials for batteries. Using Microsoft's Azure Quantum Elements, they have reduced the possibilities of materials from millions to only a few options, with one...
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January 09, 2024 Microsoft Azure
South Korean solar panel producer Qcells this week announced an eight-year strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to extend the companies’ existing solar panel supply deal. This extension comes as Microsoft looks to procure a large amount of solar panels produced in the US for its renewable...
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December 20, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has recently signed a large deal to pay for biochar production in Bolivia to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Following this deal, Exomad Green, the world’s largest biochar producer, will create the inert carbon residue at its facility in Concepción, Bolivia. Microsoft will pay for...
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December 13, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to use renewable natural gas (RNG) made from food waste to help power a microgrid that provides resilience at its San Jose data center. Fuel cell provider Enchanted Rock is in charge of this project and announced in 2022 that the microgrid would use biogas...
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