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AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cloud region in New Zealand dubbed the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This region consists of three availability zones. AWS has previously said it would invest around NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion) in its cloud operations and infrastructure...

September 02, 2025

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Scala Secures $25m in Financing from Caterpillar Power Finance

Brazilian data center developer Scala Data Centers has secured $25 million in financing from Caterpillar Power Finance, marking Caterpillar’s first with a data center company in Latin America. The financing is designed to drive sustainable growth across the company.“This milestone goes far be...

August 30, 2025

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Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced Amazon has pledged to invest $570 million in connectivity infrastructure by 2030 to deploy Kuiper services in the country. The investment will fuel up to six ground stations in the country, and set up satellite terminal manufacturing i...

August 29, 2025

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BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

UK telco BT Group has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), signing a new five-year agreement with the cloud provider. The deal builds on BT's ongoing cloud migration to AWS, and aims to help BT move its legacy systems into "modern, customer-centric microservices."“This isn’...

August 21, 2025

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Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of t...

August 14, 2025

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AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end ...

August 09, 2025

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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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Scala Closes $328 Million Expansion Deal

Scala Data Centers has successfully closed its first international project financing, securing $254 million in long-term financing for the construction of three hyperscale data centers and a critical power substation in Chile. The financing is set to fund the expansion of Scala's presence in t...

July 23, 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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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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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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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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