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Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

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...

April 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic

Amazon has invested an additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic in a deal which marks the second round of funding provided by the cloud and eCommerce giant under a previously agreed plan to invest up to $4bn in the startup. Amazon made an initial investment of $1.25bn for a minority st...

April 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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

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 acre...

March 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Danske Bank signs new cloud agreement with Amazon

Denmark's Danske Bank has signed a multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This will include systems for business, institutional and personal customers, and will see more than 16,000 physical and virtual servers, and 1,000 applications being migrated. Danske Bank said it will...

March 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

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 leas...

March 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico

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 pla...

March 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Amazon signs new wind PPA in the UK

Amazon this week announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Iberdrola to to procure the output of an offshore wind farm in the UK. The deal is to offtake 159MW from the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm – equivalent to 700GWh of energy annually. Sergio Hernández de...

March 22, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project

Electronics giant Philips and AWS have partnered for a medical technology project to make digitalized pathology slides available at scale in the cloud. This is an expansion of the existing relationship with both companies, with Philips having selected AWS as its cloud partner seven years ago. ...

March 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 20...

March 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

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. I...

March 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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

Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers

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 countrie...

February 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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

Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center

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 injur...

February 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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

Microsoft to invest in cloud and AI infrastructure in Spain

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. "...

February 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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

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