December 12, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval in...
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December 04, 2024 Sweden
Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop has appointed Helena Fagraeus Lundström as its new CEO. Lundström was most recently at solar developer Solkompaniet, where she was chief strategy office and then business unit director for land development. Prior to that, she had held roles at Swedish boat...
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November 28, 2024 Sweden
Telenor Sweden CEO Bjørn Ivar Moen has announced he will step down as CEO at the end of this year, and the hunt for a successor has already begun, as confirmed by the company in a statement. "All good things eventually come to an end," said Moen on LinkedIn this week. "Today, we announced that I...
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November 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program. The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg, two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district."The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is an...
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November 26, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Aussie retailer Coles Group has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Coles will be using Microsoft's cloud, AI, and Edge computing offerings to develop an AI-as-a-Service platform and to modernize its IT estate. The agreement is hoped...
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November 21, 2024 Dublin
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performance...
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November 20, 2024 Singapore
Keppel DC REIT this week announced the proposed acquisition of two hyperscale data centers at the Keppel Data Centre Campus in Singapore from a joint venture owned by its parent company. Keppel will continue to operate and manage the two facilities post-acquisition. The deal would be for S$1.03...
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November 15, 2024 Sweden
Swedish marine and industrial engine manufacturer Volvo Penta has announced a follow-up investment in UtilityInnovation Group (UIG), an US and Irish company specializing in utility systems and decentralized energy solutions. Following the investment, UIG aims to combine Volvo’s battery energy...
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November 15, 2024 Finland
Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine...
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November 14, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in SQL...
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November 07, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was "at...
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November 05, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...
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October 19, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Professional services firm TMF Group which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stack...
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October 18, 2024 Finland
Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three...
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October 15, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Ansys and TSMC have teamed up with Microsoft to enhance the simulation and analysis of silicon photonic components. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology is a type of optical communication that speeds up data transfer speeds and is used in data centers and IoT applications.“The...
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October 10, 2024 Sydney
Engineering and architecture consulting firm Woolpert has acquired Greenbox Architecture. The Sydney-based architectural firm has specialized in data center, commercial, and residential architecture in the APAC region since 2009.“By joining a tech-driven company like Woolpert, we will be able to...
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October 09, 2024 Finland
European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the...
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October 07, 2024 Sweden
Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop l ast week announced it had entered into an agreement with real estate development firm Atrium Ljungberg for operational management of the Palmfelt Datacenter in the Slaughterhouse area of the capital. "We see great potential in the data center, which is...
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October 05, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also...
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October 03, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also...
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