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Read Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Germany
Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Germany

Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Germany

November 30, 2024 Equinix

Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Located within Equinix’s Frankfurt North-East campus, the facility spans 5,295 sqm (57,000 sq ft) with a total capacity of 7.75MW across two data halls on three floors. “The expansion of our North-East campus with FR13 is key to...

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Read BBC undergoes cloud migration to AWS
BBC undergoes cloud migration to AWS

BBC undergoes cloud migration to AWS

November 30, 2024 Amazon AWS

The UK's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is undergoing a cloud migration as it revealed plans to move its IT systems including finance, HR, and procurement to RISE with SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The BBC hopes that moving its IT systems to the cloud will be more cost-effective than...

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Read Royal Philips and AWS expand partnership for cloud migration
Royal Philips and AWS expand partnership for cloud migration

Royal Philips and AWS expand partnership for cloud migration

November 29, 2024 Amazon AWS

Health technology company Royal Philips has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. Philips' integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud will be expanded including radiology, digital pathology, cardiology, and AI-advanced visualized solutions.“The collaboration between Philips and...

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Read DataBox takes over Digital Realty's cloud service in Croatia
DataBox takes over Digital Realty's cloud service in Croatia

DataBox takes over Digital Realty's cloud service in Croatia

November 27, 2024 Digital Realty Trust

Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the...

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Read AWS partners with SSAB for green steel at Swedish data center
AWS partners with SSAB for green steel at Swedish data center

AWS partners with SSAB for green steel at Swedish data center

November 27, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed with SSAB to pilot the use of green steel in one of its three new data centers in Sweden. The green steel will be used to construct the roof and wall structures at the AWS Västerås data center. SSAB subsidiary Ruukki Construction will supply the steel for the...

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Read Microsoft plans two data centers outside Cologne
Microsoft plans two data centers outside Cologne

Microsoft plans two data centers outside Cologne

November 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program. The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg, two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district."The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is an...

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Read Equinix breaks ground on Singapore data center
Equinix breaks ground on Singapore  data center

Equinix breaks ground on Singapore data center

November 26, 2024 Equinix

Equinix this week announced its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) facility in Singapore, to be named SG6. With an initial investment of $260 million, the facility will provide liquid cooling capabilities to support high-density workloads. Yee May Leong, managing director, Singapore,...

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Read Coles Group and Microsoft sign five-year cloud
Coles Group and Microsoft sign five-year cloud

Coles Group and Microsoft sign five-year cloud

November 26, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Aussie retailer Coles Group has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Coles will be using Microsoft's cloud, AI, and Edge computing offerings to develop an AI-as-a-Service platform and to modernize its IT estate. The agreement is hoped...

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Read AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio
AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio

AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio

November 25, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing Fayette County, southern Ohio, as a site for a data center development and is considering a location about 25 miles east of Xenia, 40 miles east of Dayton.“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This is...

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Read Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic
Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic

Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic

November 22, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon plans to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, following a previous $4bn investment in the generative artificial intelligence startup. The companies said that the startups "will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models," however Anthropic will likely...

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Read Prime launches new data center in Los Angeles, California
Prime launches new data center in Los Angeles, California

Prime launches new data center in Los Angeles, California

November 14, 2024 Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers announced the opening of its Los Angeles data center at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today. This new facility, located at 4701 S. Santa Fe in Vernon, California, is a purpose-built three-story, 242,495-square-foot hyperscale data center which will deliver 33 MW of critical IT...

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Read Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits
Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

November 14, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in SQL...

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Read AT&T snaps up $1bn worth of spectrum from UScellular
AT&T snaps up $1bn worth of spectrum from UScellular

AT&T snaps up $1bn worth of spectrum from UScellular

November 09, 2024 AT&T

UScellular has confirmed that it will sell a portion of its spectrum assets to AT&T for $1 billion. This deal will see T-Mobile acquire a significant chunk of UScellular's operations, including its customer base and around 30 percent of the company's wireless spectrum."We are pleased with the...

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Read Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel
Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

November 08, 2024 Equinix

Equinix this week officially opened Salalah in partnership with local telco Omantel with a facility known as SN1. This facility is to be commercially and operationally managed in full by Equinix as a carrier-neutral and open-access Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.Kamel...

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Read Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts
Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts

Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts

November 07, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was "at...

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Read Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina
Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

November 05, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...

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Read Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye
Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

November 02, 2024 Equinix

US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 sq...

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Read Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio
Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

October 31, 2024 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data centre campus located 70 acres outside Columbus in New Albany. OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, with...

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Read Equinix to invest in two data centers in Bangkok, Thailand
Equinix to invest in two data centers in Bangkok, Thailand

Equinix to invest in two data centers in Bangkok, Thailand

October 30, 2024 Equinix

Equinix this week announced an intention to invest approximately $500 million in Thailand in phases over the next ten years, including the recent acquisition of land in Bangkok for approximately $34m. The newly acquired land in the Bangna area of Bangkok will be used to establish two Equinix...

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Read FCC rules in favor of AT&T's FirstNet over 4.9 GHz spectrum usage
FCC rules in favor of AT&T's FirstNet over 4.9 GHz spectrum usage

FCC rules in favor of AT&T's FirstNet over 4.9 GHz spectrum usage

October 28, 2024 AT&T

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to transfer control of a chunk of the 4.9 GHz spectrum band to FirstNet, which operates a network for first responders that AT&T uses. The FCC voted 4-0 in favor of handing the spectrum to FirstNet. Commissioner Anna Gomez did not...

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