June 07, 2025 Amazon AWS
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,...
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June 07, 2025 Amazon AWS
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 work...
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June 04, 2025 Amazon AWS
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 of...
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June 03, 2025 Google
Google announced over the weekend that it is "investing an additional $7 billion in Iowa within the next two years in cloud and AI infrastructure, as well as in expanded workforce development programs, meaningfully increasing the pace of investments the company has made in the state since...
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June 02, 2025 Google
Google has expanded a partnership with Arable to support water sustainability efforts across North and South Carolina which will see the deployment of Arable's in-field irrigation technology to hundreds of fields across the two states.As part of the agreement, Google will provide funding for the...
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June 02, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed that it will be expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland with a $400 million investment which will "further strengthen Switzerland's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, including the provision of cutting-edge graphics processing units...
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May 31, 2025 Google
Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud to use the latter's computing and AI solutions. Under the MoU, use the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Air Gapped offering. The MoU will see HTX and Google work together on AI...
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May 29, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three availability zones. The region is described by Microsoft as "AI-ready" and will provide Malaysian organisations with Microsoft cloud services offering in-country data residency.YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister of...
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May 26, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transport...
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May 24, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase 1.24 million tons of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green, in the largest biochar removal agreement to date. The ten-year deal will see the tech giant purchase removal credits generated from Exomad's biochar operations in Concepción and Riberalta,...
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May 23, 2025 Google
Google has announced a series of additional security and sovereignty elements for its sovereign cloud in response to EU groups' concerns about trade tensions and the reliance on US tech companies.The move comes as European groups are raising concerns about the potential for the Trump...
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May 22, 2025 ODATA SA
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...
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May 22, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has confirmed that it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the ongoing war in Gaza, though it denies its technology was used to harm people. The cloud company released a statement on May 15 in response to "concerns from our employees and the public" about...
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May 21, 2025 Google
Google has signed an energy deal to procure renewable energy credits (RECs) in South Carolina that allows Google to invest in and purchase RECs from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by EnergyRe in South Carolina."Strengthening the grid...
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May 21, 2025 Amazon AWS
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 running...
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May 16, 2025 Amazon AWS
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 physical...
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May 15, 2025 Equinix
Equinix this week inaugurated its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Jakarta via a joint venture with PT Astra International Tbk. JK1 is an eight-story facility offering 550 cabinets in the first phase. At full build-out, the facility will offer a total capacity of 1,600...
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March 14, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.5 million tons of carbon removal credits over the next 30 years from a large-scale afforestation project in India. The agreement was signed with Climate Impact Partners, a provider of carbon markets solutions, and Terra Natural Capital, a firm that offers...
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February 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is considering an expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads and has appointed three new directors to its board to evaluate whether spare capacity can be repurposed.Riot, which develops some of the largest mining facilities in the...
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January 30, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has purchased another 240 acres of land in Wisconsin for data center projects. The land in question is nearby to Microsoft's existing Mount Pleasant project, construction on which was "paused" at the start of this year. At the time, Microsoft said: “We have paused early construction...
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