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Read Wesfarmers OneDigital Enters a Five-Year Contract With AWS
Wesfarmers OneDigital Enters a Five-Year Contract With AWS

Wesfarmers OneDigital Enters a Five-Year Contract With AWS

April 05, 2023 Amazon AWS

OneDigital, a division of the Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, has inked a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to be its principal cloud provider. Amazon will also equip the Australian business with an AWS Skills Guild to educate and certify 500 workers. Wesfarmers, one of the...

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Read Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola
Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola

Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola

April 04, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed another PPA with Iberdrola, through which it will be provided with wind and solar energy from its offshore wind farms in Germany for 1.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually. The wind farms, Baltic Eagle and Windanker, will have a total capacity of 476MW and...

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Read All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure
All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure

All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure

April 04, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, and...

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Read Using 800GE Routing Interfaces, Nokia Oyj Increases Connectivity at OpenColo's Data Centers
Using 800GE Routing Interfaces, Nokia Oyj Increases Connectivity at OpenColo's Data Centers

Using 800GE Routing Interfaces, Nokia Oyj Increases Connectivity at OpenColo's Data Centers

April 04, 2023 OpenColo

Yesterday, Nokia and OpenColo reported that the first commercial field testing to transmit a 1.6 Terabit/s traffic flow across an 800GE link aggregation group using 800GE FR4 optics had been successfully completed. OpenColo, a cutting-edge supplier of data center connection and colocation...

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Read Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas
Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

April 03, 2023 Equinix

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property. The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 sq...

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Read NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations
NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

April 03, 2023 NTT

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have...

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Read Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval
Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

March 31, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is set...

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Read Amazon and Oregon's clean energy bill
Amazon and Oregon's clean energy bill

Amazon and Oregon's clean energy bill

March 31, 2023 Amazon AWS

In Oregon, House Bill 2816, aims to require data centers to utilize renewable energy and reduce their carbon emissions and Amazon is fighting it. The giant has reportedly been lobbying against the bill since it was first introduced, despite its big green pledges and commitment to reach zero...

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Read EdgeCore plans a new Loudoun data center
EdgeCore plans a new Loudoun data center

EdgeCore plans a new Loudoun data center

March 31, 2023 EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure is reportedly working on a new data center with Penzance, a real estate investor and developer. The facility, which will be located at 1501 Moran Road in Sterling, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia will be three stories, spanning a 285,000-square-foot data center...

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Read Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture
Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture

Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture

March 29, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing
EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing

EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing

March 29, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company with...

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Read Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion
Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

March 27, 2023 Equinix

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Martin...

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Read Microsoft to expand in Washington
Microsoft to expand in Washington

Microsoft to expand in Washington

March 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there is...

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Read Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona
Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

March 23, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site in...

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Read Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT
Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

March 23, 2023 NTT

NTT will construct a new data center in Thailand. The company revealed this week that it will spend $90 million through NTT Global Data Centers to build a 12MW, 43,000 sq ft facility in Bangkok. The second half of 2024 will see the start of operations at the next data center, BKK3, which will be...

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Read Construction of H5's Ashburn, VA Data Center Begins
Construction of H5's Ashburn, VA Data Center Begins

Construction of H5's Ashburn, VA Data Center Begins

March 22, 2023 H5 Data Centers

After dismantling the former data center there, H5 Data Centers has started construction on a new one in Ashburn, Virginia. This week, the company started building a 255,000-square-foot, three-story data center with a 42-megawatt capacity. The building is offered for pre-leasing at Loudoun...

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Read Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide
Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

March 21, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle, and...

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Read Amazon announces HVO adoption in Dublin
Amazon announces HVO adoption in Dublin

Amazon announces HVO adoption in Dublin

March 21, 2023 Amazon AWS

In Dublin, Ireland, AWS has announced it is turning to HVO for its backup generators at its data centers. It will work with companies like Certa in Ireland to help develop a global supply chain, in order to create a more "accessible, steady, and sustainable supply of HVO." Further, it is...

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Read Cologix to bring AWS outposts to Vancouver data centers
Cologix to bring AWS outposts to Vancouver data centers

Cologix to bring AWS outposts to Vancouver data centers

March 21, 2023 Cologix

Cologix has announced that customers can now deploy AWS Outposts at its VAN3 digital edge data center. The facility is a 42,000-square-foot data center, the region’s largest neutral data center. Through this addition, customers in Cologix’s Vancouver data centers will be able to connect to AWS...

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Read AWS Wavelength Zone is Being Implemented by BT in Manchester
AWS Wavelength Zone is Being Implemented by BT in Manchester

AWS Wavelength Zone is Being Implemented by BT in Manchester

March 21, 2023 Amazon AWS

Wavelength Zones are being implemented across the UK by UK telecom BT in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), beginning in Manchester. Wavelength gives users access to cloud services in a local AWS Region and embeds Amazon compute and storage capabilities at the edge of 5G networks for...

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