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30-meter 4G telecom tower destroyed in Mullumbimby, Australia

Australia

A  30-meter 4G telecom tower in Mullumbimby, Australia owned by telco Optus, was destroyed on May 18. The  New South Wales Police estimating that this destruction most likely caused by vandals occurred “sometime between 12am and 8pm."Tweed-Byron Police District Inspector Matt Woods said they r...

SwarmOne unveils new instance-less platform for AI training

Swarm computing company SwarmOne has unveiled its instance-less platform for artificial intelligence (AI) training after completing over 340,000 hours of AI training with a selection of first customers. The company notes that this will make users "free of the cloud" and they would not have to ...

CtrlS Datacenter launches new Hyderabad facility

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

CtrlS Datacenters has now launched its DC3 facility, located in the Gachibowli district of Telangana state, offers 13MW of IT load across 130,000 square feet. The company noted that it invested over  Rs 500 crore ($60m) into the construction of this new facility , which has a capacity of appro...

Ada Infrastructure launches second Tokyo campus

Ada Infrastructure

GLP Capital Partners' data center firm Ada Infrastructure this week announced it has started working on the second building at the 31MW Tokyo West 1 (TKW1) campus. The new four-story building will offer 10MW to accommodate the increased demand from enterprise and hyperscale customers.“We are p...

Bridge Datacenters plans new Malaysian facility

Bridge Data Centres

Bridge Data Centres is planning a new Malaysian data center campus with Malaysian developer Mah Sing Group Berhad. The developer revealed that it has armarked 150 acres of land at Southville City for further expansion into a data center hub with planned capacity of up to 500MW.Eric Fan, presid...

OVHcloud to launch Local Zone Edge location in Rabat, Morocco

OVH Group

European cloud provider OVHcloud is launching a Local Zone Edge location suitable for workloads with latency-sensitive services such as real-time analytics, e-commerce websites, content delivery networks (CDN) for replay and streaming videos, and cloud gaming in Rabat, Morocco.  The cloud prov...

FWD signs new cloud agreement with AWS

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.Sandee...

New startup launched by ex-Google staff targets European data centers

Google

A new startup by former Google staff, offering land and power for industrial campuses is now targeting European data centers. “I am very pleased to announce the launch of Sepia Infrastructure,” Sepia CEO Fabien Vieau announced on LinkedIn this week. “Sepia Infrastructure delivers next-generati...

Vodafone begins 5G trials in Ukraine

Vodafone

Vodafone Ukraine has begun its 5G trials, pairing up with Finnish vendor Nokia to carry out the trials during the Action Forum 2024. The company held its first trails this month which  was confirmed by Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov."The significance of our tria...

Google to invest in Malaysian cloud region

Google

Google has revealed its plans to invest $2 billion in developing its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia and has already selected a site for the development, which will be in Sime Darby Property's Elmina Business Park in Greater Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president, chief investment o...

AWS to launch Wavelength Zone Edge locations in Africa

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 announceme...

Vodafone plans 5G Standalone for Northern Ireland

Vodafone

Vodafone has revealed its plans to deliver 5G Standalone (5G SA) to Northern Ireland which will support many industries across rural Northern Ireland, including healthcare, education, and agriculture if its merger with Three is approved. “We know how vital access to connectivity is for everyon...

US Gov't outlines governmental guidelines for carbon offsets.

United States

The United States government in a May 28 document has outlined "voluntary principles" that US participants should "embrace" when it comes to carbon offsets.The document notes that: "Widespread confidence in the integrity of credited emissions reductions and removals is critical for voluntary c...

OVHcloud launches Local Zone Edge location in Zurich, Switzerland.

OVH Group

European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a Local Zone Edge location in Zurich, Switzerland, suitable for workloads with latency-sensitive services such as real-time analytics, e-commerce websites, content delivery networks (CDN) for replay and streaming videos, and cloud gaming. Services ...

Raxio Data Centres opens new facility in Mozambique

Raxio Group

Pan-African operator Raxio Data Centres this week announced the opening of a facility in Maputo, Mozambique; Raxio Mozambique (Raxio MZ1), offering 3MW across 2,000 sqm, with capacity for up to 400 racks.“We are proud to be opening Mozambique’s first Tier III, hyper-scale ready data center and...

Equinix breaks ground in Malaysia with two new data centers

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 t...

Switch Datacenters unveils Amsterdam data center

Switch Datacenters Amsterdam BV

Dutch colo provider Switch Datacenters has launched its fourth Amsterdam data center; the AMS4 facility with an IT capacity of between 15 and 18MW across a total white space area of 4,400 square meters. “Our new data center sets a new standard for sustainability in the industry by redeveloping...

Digital Edge develops new storage system to replace lithium-ion batteries

Digital Edge DC

APAC data center operator Digital Edge has partnered with South Korean energy storage firm Donghwa ES to develop what it calls a Hybrid Super Capacitor (HSC) as a new type of power supply for its UPS systems  to replace lithium-ion batteries at its data centers.Jay Park, chief construction and...

NcodiN closes a €3.5 million funding round

France

NcodiN, a French optical interposer startup, has closed a €3.5 million ($3.8m) funding round, with Elaia, Earlybird, and OVNI Capita amongst the investors as the company looks to improve chiplet-to-chiplet communications with optical interposer technology.The company said the technology will e...

Amazon to invest billions into renewable energy projects in Spain

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...