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AWS announces plans to switch to HVO fuel across Europe

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will be transitioning away from diesel to Hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to power its backup generators in Sweden. Reports are that HVO has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90 percent through the fuel life cycle when c...

March 17, 2023

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Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

Colt has announced plans to expand in India, with a new data center campus in Navi Mumbai. The campus is pegged to include ten buildings, with a total of 40 data halls, and 40,000 sqm of data center white space spanning a 62,000 sqm site.Further, the company outlined that the campus will have...

March 16, 2023

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OneWeb and Amazon Explore Cloud-based Connection Collaboration

OneWeb, a provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a letter of intent to discuss cloud-based connection options. The two organizations want to collaborate on a totally integrated satellite constellation management service. They wa...

March 15, 2023

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Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center

Colt has launched its 45MW facility, located in the Keihanna area of Osaka, following the company first announcing the project in 2021. According to the company, already, 75% of the data center is committed.Spanning 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft), Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS, said that ...

March 14, 2023

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Southwest Airlines Transitions to Amazon Web Services

Southwest Airlines, situated in the US, has said that it is transferring its applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company claimed that the choice was made as part of its digital transformation project, which aims to enhance the passenger experience, increase operational effectiven...

March 14, 2023

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Amazon Buys a Facility in Santa Clara, California

An old insulation plant in Santa Clara, California, has been purchased by Amazon. According to documents cited by BizJournal, Amazon paid $237.8 million for the land, which is situated at 960 Central Expressway, slightly west of San Jose Mineta International Airport. It's unknown what the firm...

March 10, 2023

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Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have inked a $25 million contract. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon will provide Defra with cloud hosting, its bring-your-own-license software management solution, as well as support, manage...

March 09, 2023

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Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia

Amazon has temporarily halted the building of its massive new facility in Northern Virginia. Company officials stated that layoffs and the popularity of working from home were reasons for halting development. Metropolitan Park, a 2.1 million square foot building with two office towers, will be...

March 09, 2023

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Exa And Colt Will Update The Channel Tunnel Route's Fiber Equipment

Fiber infrastructure along the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, will be upgraded by Exa Infrastructure and Colt Technical Services. To provide clients with a cutting-edge G.652D cable route from London to Paris, the two telecom infrastructure providers will collaborate to upd...

March 09, 2023

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Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus

Colt Data Centre Services has announced that it has broken ground on its new London 4 campus, located in Hayes. The company has outlined that the site will include two five-story buildings with a combined capacity of 57 MW, containing 18 data center halls across 30,000 sqm (322,900 sq ft).The...

March 06, 2023

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Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the company ceased paying landlords, cleaning, and software providers for services done. But, according to The Information, the corporation has failed to pay its Amazon Web Services payments for months, despite using the cloud provider for crucial components o...

March 06, 2023

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AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia

AWS has launched a new AWS infrastructure Region in Malaysia, and through this, has outlined its intention to invest $6 billion (MYR 25.5 billion) in Malaysia by 2037. According to AWS, to begin with, the region will consist of three Availability Zones. Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of ...

March 05, 2023

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Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the compa...

February 28, 2023

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Hackers target data center passwords

Last week hackers gained access to two Asia-based data center firms, Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. This revelation, first published by Bloomberg, comes after endpoint security firm Resecurity found evidence they had been compromised. Cyber se...

February 27, 2023

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Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint

Singapore-based Princeton Digital has announced plans to develop more data centers in Asia, in a bid to support operations in its global headquarters. To do this, the company is injecting an investment of $1 billion. With this, the company is expanding into Batam with a 96-megawatt facility, o...

February 27, 2023

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Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light

Amazon's plans to expand its data center footprint in Northern Virginia, with a huge investment of $35 billion, is continuing to receive pushback from protestors and residents. Northern Virginia has the largest concentration of data centers in the world, being the epicenter of a data center bo...

February 24, 2023

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NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...

February 24, 2023

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MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chen...

February 23, 2023

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AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department

AWS has announced AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) availability to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), meaning that the department will be able to more easily deploy modular data centers managed by AWS in infrastructure-limited locations. Through the MDCs, DoD customers will be provided with s...

February 20, 2023

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Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas

It has been revealed that in Oregon, Amazon is planning to power at least three of its Oregon data centers with natural gas fuel cells. That said, the number could be as high as seven. Amazon proposes the fuel cell technology it will use will oxidize the fossil fuel to generate electricity. Ho...

February 20, 2023

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