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TMF Group selects Orange for hybrid cloud solution

Professional services firm TMF Group which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stac...

October 19, 2024

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Ansys and TSMC to partner with Microsoft for silicon photonic simulations

Ansys and TSMC have teamed up with Microsoft to enhance the simulation and analysis of silicon photonic components. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology is a type of optical communication that speeds up data transfer speeds and is used in data centers and IoT applications.“The ...

October 15, 2024

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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

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Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also com...

October 05, 2024

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Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also comm...

October 03, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Microsoft signs carbon deal with Arbor

Microsoft has signed a biomass carbon sequestration carbon capture deal with biomass sequestering company Arbor. The company's system uses waste biomass to create power, while also capturing the CO2 it says would have been released into the atmosphere via that biomass decomposing or burning up...

September 21, 2024

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Microsoft signs 20-year, 835MW AI data center PPA to reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant

Microsoft plans to take up 100 percent of a revived Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to faid its AI datacenter plans. If approved by regulators, Constellation hopes to open the 837MW Pennsylvania facility in 2028. 100 percent of the power will go to Microsoft, to match the power used by i...

September 20, 2024

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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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OpenAI disbands research SRE team

OpenAI has disbanded its Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads which was formed less than a year ago. Todd Underwood who was hired to lead the team spent 14 years and nine months at Google, where he created the machine learning SRE group, and co-authore...

September 13, 2024

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PowerHouse acquires land in North Carolina for new data center

PowerHouse Data Centers's alongside real estate investment management firm Town Lane this week announced the completed purchase of 122 acres in Charlotte via a joint venture partnership between both companies. The site is intended for a five-building, 2.5 million square feet (232,255 sqm) dat...

September 07, 2024

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Microsoft signs rooftop solar PPA in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project. EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

September 05, 2024

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Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India

Microsoft this week announced the signing of a green attribute sale contract of 437.6MW with Indian renewable energy firm ReNew in a deal said to be amongst India's largest corporate renewable agreements. As part of the agreement, ReNew will direct approximately $15 million of revenue from t...

August 29, 2024

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Open Compute begins trials with hyperscale companies to test green concrete

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has announced a new collaboration with several hyperscale companies including Google, AWS, Meta, and Microsoft to test developing and deploying low-embodied carbon concrete, or “green concrete.” The initiative is in line with an open letter written b...

August 25, 2024

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Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake

Residents in Mekagunda, a village near Indian tech hotspot Hyderabad have filed a petition against Microsoft, and 35 other companies and government bodies in Telangana's High Court, alleging that Microsoft has illegally occupied land beyond its property, and is dumping industrial waste into a...

August 25, 2024

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Google to invest $1bn Dallas data centers expansion

Google has announced new data center investment plans for Dallas as it revealed plans to invest $1 billion in Texas this year through its data center campuses in Midlothian and Red Oak. The company said the investment would take its spending in the Lone Star State to $2.7 billion. Google said...

August 18, 2024

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Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud

Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to create sovereign and Edge cloud services in Indonesia. The telco will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on-premises to customers in Indonesia via its data center arm. Customers will also have acc...

August 13, 2024

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