March 16, 2024 Amazon AWS
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....
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March 13, 2024 Microsoft Azure
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. In a...
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March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
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...
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March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has acquired Talen Energy’s 960MW Cumulusdata center campus at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. According to the investor presentation, Talen sold the site and assets of Cumulus Data for $650 million. The deal comprises $350 million at close and $300m escrowed,...
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February 29, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Platform.sh, a platform for building, running and scaling web applications, is offering customers a three percent 'greener region discount' when using a data center that consumes electricity that is less than 100gCO₂e/kWh. Customers have a choice of six data center regions across five...
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February 27, 2024 Amazon AWS
NTT Docomo has chosen Amazon Web Services to support the commercial deployment of its 5G Open RAN network in Japan. The company will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere), a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN. “Our philosophy at NTT...
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February 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure
A fatal incident has been reported at an electrical substation being built to supply power to a new Microsoft data center in London. Reports have it that a worker was trapped after an incident involving an aerial work platform at the Park Royal, site in Ealing last week, and died of his injuries...
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February 22, 2024 Amazon AWS
Public cloud data backup and recovery provider Clumio has raised $75m in a Series D round of funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Existing investors Index Ventures and Altimeter Capital, as well as new investor NewView Capital also participated in this round of funding. “Few markets are as big as...
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February 21, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently revealed a planned investment of $2.1 billion in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Spain over the next two years. This was revealed via a post on X by Microsoft Brad Smith following a meeting with the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez....
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February 16, 2024 Amazon AWS
Fuel cell provider Bloom Energy has added the ability to follow loads to its fuel towers to enable better adjustment to variable demand and supply in microgrids and utilities.This new offering can be used by data center providers and others on microgrids, and also by the utility, who may use fuel...
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February 15, 2024 AT&T
US operator AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) have announced a ten-year, $8 billion investment to expand and upgrade the nationwide public safety network. FirstNet will invest $6.3 billion through its network contract with AT&T and "anticipates an additional...
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February 13, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon has signed a new power purchase agreement to procure the output of a wind farm from Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. “We are proud to have signed this agreement with Amazon, a company that shares our commitment to accelerating the...
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February 10, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, this week revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. “Still in the early phases of development, Microsoft aims to build out its cloud infrastructure in new areas of South Africa to meet growing demand from public sector and private organizations for...
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January 16, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Vodafone has signed a 10-year agreement with Microsoft for generative AI, cloud computing, and IoT services. As part of this agreement, Vodafone will invest $1.5bn in the cloud giant and will be using Microsoft Azure's OpenAI and Copilot technologies for its customer experience, exit...
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January 15, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have partnered to find the best materials for batteries. Using Microsoft's Azure Quantum Elements, they have reduced the possibilities of materials from millions to only a few options, with one...
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January 09, 2024 Microsoft Azure
South Korean solar panel producer Qcells this week announced an eight-year strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to extend the companies’ existing solar panel supply deal. This extension comes as Microsoft looks to procure a large amount of solar panels produced in the US for its renewable...
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January 08, 2024 AT&T
The outage from AT&T which was blamed on copper thefts in the area have now impacted residents in South Dallas, Texas. Thiis outage which led to services going down since Christmas day have reportedly caused losses of revenue for businesses in the area. AT&T said in an announcement,...
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January 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
In a recent development, Virginia's King George County Board of Supervisors voted to renegotiate the performance agreement with Amazon. This agreement is for the facility's first phase at the old Birchwood power plant on State Route 3 near Sealston. Following the existing agreement,...
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December 23, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has provided a few more details about Blue Origin's plans to put compute in space, which was first announced in October. Bezos explained on the Lex Fridman podcast that the 'Blue Ring' project, aims to provide multiple services to space customers. He said,...
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December 21, 2023 Marathon Digital: Garden City TX
Applied Digital has recently signed a long-term retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power for its 200MW data center in Garden City, Texas. Following this agreement, Applied Digital will use wind power produced in Texas by TerraForm Power. Wes Cummins, Applied Digital chairman and CEO said,...
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