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Dell'Oro: AI growth will drive data center capex to $500bn by 2027

The analyst firm Dell'Oro Group forecasts that data center capital expenditures will surpass $500 billion by 2027 due to AI infrastructure expenditures. As the market undergoes digestion, the group predicts that cloud and enterprise expenditure growth will decelerate in the near future.Despite...

Accelevation Holdings establishes a business unit focused on data centers

Accelevation Holdings has established a new business entity focused on data centers. Conatech and Instor Solutions, two recently acquired subsidiaries, will be combined to form the Accelevation Data Center Business Unit.Accelevation will integrate the white space installation and project manag...

Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS

Amazon AWS

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vodafone Business has implemented Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) in Spain. After launching the service in Germany and the United Kingdom two years prior, introducing the pilot service in Spain expanded its European footprint. Spain is the mos...

CommScope will invest $60.3 million to expand its fiber manufacturing facility

Over the next four years, CommScope intends to invest $60,3 million to expand its manufacturing facilities in North Carolina. The telecommunications equipment supplier stated that the increased production will generate at least 250 new employment.The investment comes at a crucial moment for th...

AirTrunk has submitted plans for a 320MW facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk

AirTrunk has filed for its Sydney, Australia, SYD3 data center campus. After purchasing the land in 2021, the company has submitted plans to the New South Wales Department of Planning for a 320MW data center spanning 1.3 million square feet across seven stories.The property in question cost $7...

The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G

United Kingdom

The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing, tra...

Greenpixie awarded £50,000 grant to track data center emissions

Greenpixie, a London-based startup that calculates emissions data for companies that use cloud computing in data centers has been awarded a £50,000 ($64k) grant to track data center emissions. The UK Government grant is provided through Innovate UK, the UK's national innovation agency. The com...

WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022

Amazon AWS

WeTransfer has said it cut its server emissions by 78 per cent in 2022. This comes following the company's 2020 pledge to reduce its emissions by 30 percent by 2025, and its migration to AWS in 2011. The company reportedly achieved "carbon-neutral certification," after using AWS' Customer Carb...

Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn

Digital Realty Trust

TPG Real Estate now owns 80% of three Digital Realty data centers in the US state of Virginia's Northern Virginia. Digital will continue to oversee the daily operations of the joint venture's facilities. The data center business aims to utilize the $1.3 billion in proceeds from the transaction...

ABB touts big winn data centers as sector sales hit $1.3 billion

In its most recent quarterly earnings report, Swedish-Swiss multinational ABB highlighted the expansion of its data center sales. In addition to developing data center power and cooling solutions, the company sells to various industrial sectors. Timo Ihamuotila, the company's CFO, stated on an...

Proximus considering €300m data center purchase

The Belgian telecommunications company Proximus is contemplating the sale of its data center unit for approximately €300 million ($329 million). According to Reuters, the company has hired bankers to start working on a sale, which could be used to finance the rollout of 5G and fiber networks. ...

Since 2019, GoDaddy has left 29 data centers

GoDaddy has closed 29 enterprise data centers since 2019 to streamline its data center footprint. The company said it consolidated its presence to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions. GoDaddy pledged to cut Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2022 from a 2019 baseline. Data centers drove GoDaddy'...

Google data center initiatives postponed, but increases in AI compute expenditure made

Google

Alphabet reported quarterly sales of $74.6 billion, an increase of 7% from the same period last year.  Profits increased by 15% to $18.4 billion. While advertising sales drove the majority of the company's development, cloud sales increased by 28 % to $8 billion. Google Cloud reported its seco...

Microsoft increases data center and AI compute capex

Microsoft Azure

This past quarter, Microsoft's capital expenditures increased to $10.7 billion as the company reported spending significantly on data centers, computing, and networking. The company announced that spending would increase each quarter throughout fiscal 2024, already higher than the $7.8bn capit...

Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

Meta

In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center restruct...

Microsoft intends to invest $230 million in an additional data center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft intends to construct another data center in the San Antonio, Texas, region. The corporation stated in applications with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, initially reported by the San Antonio Business Journal, that the project would cost $230 million.The company inten...

KPMG will invest $2 billion with Microsoft in AI and cloud services

Microsoft Azure

KPMG plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in partnership with Microsoft. The global expansion of the 'Big Four' accounting firm's relationship with Microsoft is anticipated to generate up to $12 billion in revenue over the next ...

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

London

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability

Japan

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and FNT Software have announced the signing of an MoU to construct sustainable data centres to support decarbonization efforts. Through the MoU, MHI’s analysis and energy management solutions will be integrated into FNT’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM)...

Four-way MoU signed in Saudi Arabia to explore development of digital infrastructure hub

Integrated Telecom Co. Ltd., Khazzan Information Technology Co.,  Cinturion Corp Ltd and Emaar, The Economic City (EEC) have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement to explore the development of a digital infrastructure hub. This will reportedly comprise data centers, an...