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Microsoft signs renewable energy framework deal with Brookfield

Microsoft has entered an agreement to invest an estimated $10 billion in renewable electricity projects to be developed by Brookfield Asset Management. The “global framework agreement” signed by the cloud company is a commitment to bring 10.5 gigawatts of generating capacity online.“Microsoft ...

May 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans Azure cloud region in Thailand

Microsoft has revealed plans to build cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand, including a data center region as part of its digital infrastructure commitment to expand the availability of the company's hyperscale cloud services.At the Microsoft Build AI Day in Bangkok, Microsoft CEO Satya Nad...

May 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS on track for annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set for an annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion as its first quarter has seen revenue of $25 billion, representing Year-on-Year (YoY) revenue growth of 17.2 percent, up from 13.2 percent in Q4 of 2023.CEO Andy Jassy told investors during the earnings call: "...

April 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

Microsoft, during its quarterly earnings call revealed that its cloud unit surpassed $31.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, up by 24 percent YoY. This led to a 4% increase in the company’s stock market, bridging the value to $128 billion. "We have the most comprehensive cloud footprint with...

April 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS announces new campus in Indiana

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is behind a planned data center in Indiana. The state overnor Eric J. Holcomb this week announced plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center campus in north central Indiana – the largest capital investment announcement in Indiana’s history.“Indi...

April 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion investment to use Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of a five-year agreement that will see Microsoft support Coca-Cola's core technology strategy systemwide.“This new agreement builds on the success of Coca-Cola’s partnership ...

April 24, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

April 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lumen Technologies

Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas

Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas“Sustainability is at the core of our...

April 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edged Energy

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robu...

April 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

Cloudflare suffers second power outage in Oregon in six months

Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Cloudflare suffered a second data center power failure at its core facility in Portland, Oregon, within six months. As a result of the first incident which happened in November, Cloudflare introduced ‘Code Orange’; a new process where the company shifts m...

April 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CloudHQ

Amazon launches Deadline Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a cloud-based rendering service called Deadline Cloud which will enable users to deploy and scale up graphics and handle visual effects (VFX) rendering on AWS cloud infrastructure. This rendering service is aimed at customers in media and entertainment, a...

April 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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

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

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

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

Cloudflare acquires multi-cloud networking startup

Content delivery network (CDN) and Edge services provider announced this week that it has acquired multi-cloud networking startup Nefeli Networks and has launched a new multi-cloud networking service based on the acquired technology. “We believe the full potential of the cloud will only truly ...

March 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CloudHQ

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

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