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Equinix breaks ground on Singapore data center

Equinix this week announced its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) facility in Singapore, to be named SG6. With an initial investment of $260 million, the facility will provide liquid cooling capabilities to support high-density workloads. Yee May Leong, managing director, Singapore,...

November 26, 2024

Equinix

AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing Fayette County, southern Ohio, as a site for a data center development and is considering a location about 25 miles east of Xenia, 40 miles east of Dayton.“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This i...

November 25, 2024

Amazon AWS

Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic

Amazon plans to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, following a previous $4bn investment in the generative artificial intelligence startup. The companies said that the startups "will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models," however Anthropic will lik...

November 22, 2024

Amazon AWS

Google DeepMind refutes criticism of AI chip design platform AlphaChip

Google DeepMind has published a research paper hitting back at criticism of its AI chip design system AlphaChip. That paper claimed that AlphaChip was able to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation of Google TPU AI accelerator, and was already being used by the company...

November 18, 2024

Google

Saudi dairy company Almarai moves to Google Cloud

Saudi Arabia-based dairy company Almarai is moving its critical systems to Google Cloud and hopes that this will improve its scalability and flexibility while remaining cost-effective. The data will be hosted in Google Cloud's Saudi Arabia region, enabling the company to meet digital sovereign...

November 08, 2024

Google

Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

Equinix this week officially opened Salalah in partnership with local telco Omantel with a facility known as SN1. This facility is to be commercially and operationally managed in full by Equinix as a carrier-neutral and open-access Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.Kame...

November 08, 2024

Equinix

Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 s...

November 02, 2024

Equinix

Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data centre campus located 70 acres outside Columbus in New Albany. OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, wi...

October 31, 2024

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix to invest in two data centers in Bangkok, Thailand

Equinix this week announced an intention to invest approximately $500 million in Thailand in phases over the next ten years, including the recent acquisition of land in Bangkok for approximately $34m. The newly acquired land in the Bangna area of Bangkok will be used to establish two Equinix I...

October 30, 2024

Equinix

Citigroup signs multi-year contract with Google Cloud

American investment banking and financial services firm Citi has signed a multi-year contract with Google Cloud to use its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. The agreement will see Citi migrate several workloads and applications to Google Cloud, and use Google Cloud's ...

October 29, 2024

Google

OVHcloud names Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO

European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has appointed Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO, breaking the news during its FY 2024 results this week, saying Michel Paulin resigned from his positions as director and CEO during a 23 October meeting. Revcolevschi joined OVH in May 2024 as deputy chief...

October 28, 2024

OVH Group

VP and head of platform Amit Zavery to leave Google

The vice president, general manager, and head of platform at Google Cloud is set to depart after spending the last five and a half years at Google, joining from Oracle Cloud along with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. "The decision to leave Google is one of the toughest I’ve ever made," Zavery ...

October 25, 2024

Google

AWS and e& sign $1bn cloud agreement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated in...

October 19, 2024

Amazon AWS

Google Quantum AI invests in QuEra

Google Quantum AI has invested an undisclosed sum in quantum startup QuEra. In a statement, the neutral-atom quantum computing company said the investment will help it “accelerate technology advancements” such as developing scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Commenting on the inves...

October 14, 2024

Google

Google Distributed Cloud expands partnership to add NetApp offerings

NetApp and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, integrating NetApp's unified data storage and intelligent services into its Distributed Cloud architecture. The companies aim to help public sectors and regulated industries access artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while meetin...

October 03, 2024

Google

Alva to use Google Cloud as primary cloud provider

Indonesian electric motorcycle company Alva has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud service provider and plans to use Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) optimized infrastructure for innovation across R&D, customer service, productivity, and marketing. Alva will also look i...

October 01, 2024

Google

DNeX and Google Cloud to develop sovereign cloud in Malaysia

Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) and Google Cloud have signed a deal to deliver sovereign cloud services to Malaysia and will operate the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) offering as a managed GDC provider, bringing a sovereign cloud offering to the country. Karan Bajwa, vice president for Asia P...

September 30, 2024

Google

Google launches first data center in Malaysia.

Google this week held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia located at the Elmina Business Park outside Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, said: "Today, Google reaffirms its support for advancing ...

September 30, 2024

Google

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded a colocation contract to Equinix.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Equinix a contract for colocation services for its Homeland Security Enterprise Network.Published on SAM.gov on September 17, the tender called for "power, connectivity and related operations and maintenance," adding that the services wi...

September 25, 2024

Equinix

Google signs solar deal in Nebraska

Google revealed this week that it has worked with Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) on a procurement framework that enables Google to supply carbon-free energy to OPPD. The search giant signed a deal with NextEra Energy to offtake from the Pierce County Energy Center a 420MW solar system and ...

September 19, 2024

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