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Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

September 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Microsoft signs rooftop solar PPA in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project. EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

September 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India

Microsoft this week announced the signing of a green attribute sale contract of 437.6MW with Indian renewable energy firm ReNew in a deal said to be amongst India's largest corporate renewable agreements. As part of the agreement, ReNew will direct approximately $15 million of revenue from t...

August 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake

Residents in Mekagunda, a village near Indian tech hotspot Hyderabad have filed a petition against Microsoft, and 35 other companies and government bodies in Telangana's High Court, alleging that Microsoft has illegally occupied land beyond its property, and is dumping industrial waste into a...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility. Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-fo...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Microsoft partners with Palantir on AI for US defense and intelligence Community

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...

August 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs carbon removal deal in California with 3Degrees

Microsoft has signed a new cabon capture deal with climate solutions provider 3Degrees to purchase more than 80,000 metric tons of carbon removals from Western Rivers Conservancy's (WRC) Blue Creek Improved Forest Management Project, located in Northern California. "Microsoft's investment in...

August 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

CFS signs multi-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud and AI

Australian wealth management fund Colonial First State (CFS) has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services which will see CFS continue to use Azure as its preferred cloud provider and deploy generative AI use cases in collaboratio...

August 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of 'muddying' UK CMA investigation

Microsoft has claimed that its rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are 'muddying the waters' of the antitrust investigation currently underway by the UK Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA). Google reiterated the criticism of Microsoft in its six-page response. which said; "We be...

July 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to deploy Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric to Azure

Microsoft has announced plans to deploy Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric (PCF) to improve its data center network infrastructure. Lumen will also migrate its workloads to Microsoft Azure and work with the company to deliver “telecom industry-specific solutions.” Erin Chapple, corporate vi...

July 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Quantinuum signs MoU in Singapore for city-state’s quantum sector

Quantinuum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several Singaporean institutions to provide the city-state with access to it's H-Series and Helios quantum computers and collaborate on quantum computing use cases. Other signatories of the MoU include Singapore’s National Quantum Offic...

July 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Microsoft invests in rare earth materials startup

Microsoft has made an equity investment in a rare earth materials startup focused on recycling hard drives, Canada’s Cyclic Materials, a metals recycling company that has developed a patent-pending technology, CC360.“Microsoft is working to achieve zero waste across our direct operations, p...

July 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Armada secures equity funding from Microsoft

Edge computing firm Armada has closed $40 million in funding led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. As part of the deal, Armada’s offerings will be made available on the Azure Marketplace.“This investment propels our total funding to over $100m and marks a significant milestone in our journey t...

July 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft partners with CCL for New Zealand cloud region

Microsoft has announced that CCL, a provider of IT and hybrid cloud services within local telco Spark's Business Group, will be its first at-scale cloud launch partner for the upcoming New Zealand cloud region.“We’ve seen huge interest from customers in leading end-to-end cloud services, hyper...

July 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs 420MW worth of PPAs

Microsoft has signed a number of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Sweden and Denmark from European Energy. It will procure the output of six wind and solar sites in Spain from Repsol.“We are excited that Microsoft has committed itself to driving forward the green...

June 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans new data center in Northwest Indiana

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 communi...

June 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft allegedly nears multi-million-euro agreement with CISPE for antitrust complaint

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 Reu...

June 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to purchase one million tons of carbon energy credits

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...

May 24, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly

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 ...

May 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center

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...

May 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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