June 08, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed its plans to build a 245,000-square-foot data center on 489 acres at the Radius Industrial Park in La Porte with a $1 billion investment.“Indiana is committed to being a central hub in the global economy of the future, and this latest announcement ensures Hoosier...
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June 07, 2024 Amazon AWS
Singapore-based insurer Singlife has completed its cloud migration to Amazon Web Services. The move was multi-phased and involved migrating more than 39 mission-critical applications to the cloud and exiting Singlife's data centers within 18 months.Romil Sharma, group head of technology and...
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June 05, 2024 Equinix
Equinix this week announced plans for LS2, a new International Business Exchange (IBX) facility to be located adjacent to Equinix's existing LS1 site. This €50 million project due to open in the first quarter of 2025 will offer 2,050 square meters of colocation space.Carlos Paulino, managing...
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June 05, 2024 Amazon AWS
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCLH) has migrated its shoreside technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services in a process which took 15 months to complete and involved moving more than 100 applications, thousands of virtual and physical servers, data center environments, and peripheral...
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June 03, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is reportedly nearing a multi-million-euro agreement with cloud lobby CISPE- also known as Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe to put an end to its antitrust complaint according to news first reported by Politico. However, a CISPE representative denied the claims to...
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June 01, 2024 Amazon AWS
Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for renewable energy development in North and South Carolina.This new MoU called "Accelerating Clean Energy" (ACE) tariffs, would help the companies to support carbon-free energy generation...
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May 30, 2024 Amazon AWS
Insurance provider FWD Group has signed a five-year cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see AWS continue to host the company's core business applications including finance, customer, and insurance agent interfaces, as part of the company's ongoing cloud migration.Sandeep...
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May 29, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) in partnership with Orange has revealed plans to launch a Wavelength Zone Edge locations in Africa, one of which will be in Morocco, where Oracle has confirmed plans for two new cloud regions. Jérôme Hénique, CEO at Orange Middle East and Africa, said: “The announcement...
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May 28, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has now broken ground in Malaysia with two International Business Exchange data centers in Johor (JH1) and Kuala Lumpur (KL1) now serving the company’s customers in Malaysia and across. Jeremy Deutsch, president for Asia-Pacific at Equinix, said: “Malaysia is a cornerstone market and top...
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May 24, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced the signing of several power purchase agreements (PPA) to power its European operations in France and Spain. The company signed a package solar deal comprising three separate 12-year agreements in Spain and two 15-year deals for wind energy in France. Together,...
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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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May 24, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services this week announced plans to invest €15.7 billion in Spain into its AWS Europe (Spain) Region. “We are committed to supporting Spain across multiple areas," said Suzana Curic, AWS country manager, Spain and Portugal. "Beyond direct investments and jobs supported, we plan to...
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May 20, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest €7.8 billion ($8.47bn) in its sovereign cloud infrastructure in Germany through 2040. The Sovereign Cloud region will be AWS' first and located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is expected to launch by the end of 2025. “This investment reinforces our...
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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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May 17, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced the launch of a direct liquid cooling (DLC) offering, available in 170 Digital Realty data centers globally. The company noted that the offering includes a range of mechanical solutions, such as rear door heat exchangers (RDHx) and DLC, offering power densities...
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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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May 13, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been selected to host O2 Telefónica Germany's 5G Standalone (5G SA) network as the telco confirmed that it has launched its 5G Cloud Core, built entirely in the cloud, using technology from vendors Nokia and AWS. “We are building our network of the future. With the...
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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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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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May 10, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has broken ground on a new data center outside Tokyo, Japan, marking its third data center at the NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba prefecture. This new 31MW facility, known as NRT14, will be configurable to support private AI deployments at densities up to 70kW per rack via air-assisted...
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