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Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomput...

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational operations.R...

July 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is o...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway...

June 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits ...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in Australia

Amazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia. The investment will see Amazon developing additional data centers and expanding its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said of the company's inve...

June 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

Microsoft this week launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country, located in the Santiago metropolitan region. This region is comprised of three independent physical locations - each with one or more data centers - is now operational.Tito Arciniega, president o...

June 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System

The US' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an AI-driven troubleshooting and reliability system at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF). While AI is already used to manage the data generated by those experiences and to improve predi...

June 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

Amazon this week announced it will expand its use of water recycling to more than 120 locations in states and counties where the cloud giant has data center operations by 2030.“By scaling our use of recycled water—water that has been previously used and treated—we expect to preserve over 530 m...

June 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK

Campaigners are opposing a hyperscale data center campus planned for Bedfordshire, UK, over concerns about its impact on the water supply. The facility is likely to host servers for Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, with Amazon Data Services named in several council documents. However, advocacy gr...

June 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS

Iberia Airlines has decommissioned its data centers and has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, and in a multi-year transformation project, has successfully migrated to the cloud. The airline is now using AWS services, including Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Dyn...

June 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS Establishes European Sovereign Cloud as Separate Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established a new company for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in light of increasing anxiety expressed by European customers. AWS European Sovereign Cloud will now have an independent European governance structure and its own dedicated Security Operations Center,...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon to Invest $10bn in North Carolina

Amazon has revealed plans to invest $10 billion for the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, and is expected to bring 500 full time jobs to the region.“Artificial intelligence is changing the way we wor...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint

Microsoft has revealed that it will be expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland with a $400 million investment which will "further strengthen Switzerland's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, including the provision of cutting-edge graphics processing units (GPUs)."Microso...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Launches Cloud Region in Malaysia

Microsoft has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three availability zones. The region is described by Microsoft as "AI-ready" and will provide Malaysian organisations with Microsoft cloud services offering in-country data residency.YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister ...

May 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons

Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transp...

May 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to Purchase Carbon Removal Credits from Exomad Green

Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase 1.24 million tons of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green, in the largest biochar removal agreement to date. The ten-year deal will see the tech giant purchase removal credits generated from Exomad's biochar operations in Concepción and Riberalta, B...

May 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Confirms Provision of AI and Cloud Services to Israeli Military

Microsoft has confirmed that it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the ongoing war in Gaza, though it denies its technology was used to harm people. The cloud company released a statement on May 15 in response to "concerns from our employees and the public" abo...

May 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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