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Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-ac...

August 08, 2025

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AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an imp...

August 07, 2025

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AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately 300,00...

August 06, 2025

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AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved an annualized revenue run rate of more than $123 billion, CEO Andy Jassy revealed in the company's Q2 2025 earnings call.The cloud unit saw a revenue of $30.9bn for the quarter, up 17.5 percent year over year (YoY) and more than the previous quarter's $29...

August 02, 2025

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AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...

July 31, 2025

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Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...

July 22, 2025

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Alibaba Cloud Launches Third Data Center in Malaysia

Alibaba Cloud is continuing its global rollout of data centers, announcing the launch of a third site in Malaysia and also revealed that it will launch a second data center in the Philippines in October this year.In addition to the new data center locations, Alibaba Cloud has launched an AI Gl...

July 05, 2025

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Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in Australia

Amazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia. The investment will see Amazon developing additional data centers and expanding its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said of the company's inve...

June 20, 2025

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Alibaba Cloud Confirms Second Data Center in South Korea

Alibaba Cloud has confirmed that a second data center will launch in South Korea by the end of this month (June 2025), noting that the expansion of its infrastructure is due to growing demand in the country for its cloud computing and AI services from local businesses."In line with the rapid a...

June 19, 2025

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LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System

The US' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an AI-driven troubleshooting and reliability system at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF). While AI is already used to manage the data generated by those experiences and to improve predi...

June 13, 2025

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GoTo Group Migrates Digital Payments Unit to Alibaba Cloud

Indonesia's GoTo Group has moved the infrastructure of GoTo Financial, the company's digital payments unit, to Alibaba Cloud's data centers in Jakarta in hopes that the migration will help streamline its operations, reduce costs, and improve service efficiency.Patrick Walujo, GoTo Group CEO, s...

June 12, 2025

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Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

Amazon this week announced it will expand its use of water recycling to more than 120 locations in states and counties where the cloud giant has data center operations by 2030.“By scaling our use of recycled water—water that has been previously used and treated—we expect to preserve over 530 m...

June 11, 2025

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Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK

Campaigners are opposing a hyperscale data center campus planned for Bedfordshire, UK, over concerns about its impact on the water supply. The facility is likely to host servers for Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, with Amazon Data Services named in several council documents. However, advocacy gr...

June 11, 2025

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Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS

Iberia Airlines has decommissioned its data centers and has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, and in a multi-year transformation project, has successfully migrated to the cloud. The airline is now using AWS services, including Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Dyn...

June 10, 2025

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AWS Establishes European Sovereign Cloud as Separate Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established a new company for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in light of increasing anxiety expressed by European customers. AWS European Sovereign Cloud will now have an independent European governance structure and its own dedicated Security Operations Center,...

June 07, 2025

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Amazon to Invest $10bn in North Carolina

Amazon has revealed plans to invest $10 billion for the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, and is expected to bring 500 full time jobs to the region.“Artificial intelligence is changing the way we wor...

June 07, 2025

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AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor...

June 04, 2025

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Patria Launches New Data Center Company

The investment company that founded Latin American data center firm OData, through one of its infrastructure funds, has announced the launch of Omnia, a new data center platform. Omnia will develop, build, and operate large-scale, purpose-built data centers across Latin America. Led by CEO Ro...

May 22, 2025

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AWS Retires Private 5G Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an update published on May 20, revealed that its 5G service had reached the end of its support date and could no longer be accessed. The Private 5G offering integrated small cell radio units, Outposts servers, a 5G core, and radio access network (RAN) software runn...

May 21, 2025

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Insurer Marsh McLennan Selects AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider

Insurance giant Marsh McLennan has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider across its four global businesses - Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. The company will migrate the majority of its global on-premises infrastructure to AWS, significantly reducing the company's physic...

May 16, 2025

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