July 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomputers...
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July 04, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations to...
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July 03, 2025 Microsoft Azure
The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational...
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July 01, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is one...
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June 30, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway's...
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June 26, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits to...
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June 18, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft this week launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country, located in the Santiago metropolitan region. This region is comprised of three independent physical locations - each with one or more data centers - is now operational.Tito Arciniega, president of...
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June 12, 2025 CyrusOne
US operator CyrusOne this week announced its sixth campus in the UK, LON6. Located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, the new site is set to deliver 90MW of IT capacity across 30,000 square meters (322,917 sq ft) of technical space. The campus will feature four two-story and two single-story data...
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June 02, 2025 CyrusOne
CyrusOne has partnered with European energy company E.ON to develop an on-site gas-fired power system at Cyrus’ FRA7 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. This agreement will see E.ON construct the IQ Energy Center, which is expected to have a capacity of 61MW at full buildout. According to Matt...
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June 02, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed that it will be expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland with a $400 million investment which will "further strengthen Switzerland's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, including the provision of cutting-edge graphics processing units...
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May 29, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three availability zones. The region is described by Microsoft as "AI-ready" and will provide Malaysian organisations with Microsoft cloud services offering in-country data residency.YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister of...
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May 26, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transport...
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May 24, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase 1.24 million tons of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green, in the largest biochar removal agreement to date. The ten-year deal will see the tech giant purchase removal credits generated from Exomad's biochar operations in Concepción and Riberalta,...
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May 22, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has confirmed that it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the ongoing war in Gaza, though it denies its technology was used to harm people. The cloud company released a statement on May 15 in response to "concerns from our employees and the public" about...
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May 22, 2025 Digital Realty Trust
Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a...
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May 15, 2025 Equinix
Equinix this week inaugurated its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Jakarta via a joint venture with PT Astra International Tbk. JK1 is an eight-story facility offering 550 cabinets in the first phase. At full build-out, the facility will offer a total capacity of 1,600...
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March 14, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.5 million tons of carbon removal credits over the next 30 years from a large-scale afforestation project in India. The agreement was signed with Climate Impact Partners, a provider of carbon markets solutions, and Terra Natural Capital, a firm that offers...
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February 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is considering an expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads and has appointed three new directors to its board to evaluate whether spare capacity can be repurposed.Riot, which develops some of the largest mining facilities in the...
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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 23, 2025 Equinix
US construction contractor Clayco last week announced the launch of Clayco Compute, an integrated data center delivery business unit focused on specialized construction of advanced technology centers to cater to data center and quantum computing construction projects. The unit will encompass land...
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