March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
Global payment processing company Wex Inc. has completed its primary could migration with the full migration of the benefits segment in its annual report. The report did not disclse the cloud provider it moved to. However, the company in 2021 announced that it was entering into a multiyear...
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March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has acquired Talen Energy’s 960MW Cumulusdata center campus at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. According to the investor presentation, Talen sold the site and assets of Cumulus Data for $650 million. The deal comprises $350 million at close and $300m escrowed,...
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March 05, 2024 Singapore
Telkom Indonesia has consolidated its Singapore data centers under one umbrella unit ahead of a potential sale. The company wrote on LinkedIn that this marks a “significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a regional powerhouse in the data center industry,” “The rationale behind this...
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March 01, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and...
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February 29, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Platform.sh, a platform for building, running and scaling web applications, is offering customers a three percent 'greener region discount' when using a data center that consumes electricity that is less than 100gCO₂e/kWh. Customers have a choice of six data center regions across five countries...
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February 27, 2024 Amazon AWS
NTT Docomo has chosen Amazon Web Services to support the commercial deployment of its 5G Open RAN network in Japan. The company will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere), a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN. “Our philosophy at NTT...
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February 27, 2024 Singapore
Empyrion DC, a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green loan worth S$133 million (US$98 million) to refinance its SG1 Dodid data center in Singapore, with proceeds used to “support existing operations” at the 12.5MW facility. This financing was provided by the UOB bank. Mark...
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February 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure
A fatal incident has been reported at an electrical substation being built to supply power to a new Microsoft data center in London. Reports have it that a worker was trapped after an incident involving an aerial work platform at the Park Royal, site in Ealing last week, and died of his injuries...
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February 26, 2024 Global Switch
Global Switch has announced its plans for a new data center in London to be located adjacent to Global Switch’s existing data centers in east London’s Docklands. The company noted that the five-story facility, known as London South, will offer 40MW across 27,000 square meter. CEO Ashley Muldoon...
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February 22, 2024 Amazon AWS
Public cloud data backup and recovery provider Clumio has raised $75m in a Series D round of funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Existing investors Index Ventures and Altimeter Capital, as well as new investor NewView Capital also participated in this round of funding. “Few markets are as big as...
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February 21, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently revealed a planned investment of $2.1 billion in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Spain over the next two years. This was revealed via a post on X by Microsoft Brad Smith following a meeting with the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez. "I’m...
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February 20, 2024 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
UK data center company Virtus, owned by STT GDC and Macquarie Asset Management, announced plans for a new campus in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, as it revealed the acquisition of a 50-acre plot in the village, located near High Wycombe and north of existing data center hub Slough. Virtus CEO Neil...
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February 17, 2024 NTT
NTT this week announced its NTT GDC unit will be developing its first data center campus outside Paris, France on a 35.5-acre site located 50km south of Paris in the municipalities of Le Coudray-Montceaux and Corbeil-Essonnes. This campus will total 84MW across three buildings. Doug Adams, CEO...
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February 17, 2024 Google
Global search and cloud company Google has confirmed it is behind a data center development project called the Project Dawson in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Details about this project including the campus specifications or project timelines have not been shared. “The Dorchester County Economic...
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February 16, 2024 Amazon AWS
Fuel cell provider Bloom Energy has added the ability to follow loads to its fuel towers to enable better adjustment to variable demand and supply in microgrids and utilities.This new offering can be used by data center providers and others on microgrids, and also by the utility, who may use fuel...
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February 13, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon has signed a new power purchase agreement to procure the output of a wind farm from Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. “We are proud to have signed this agreement with Amazon, a company that shares our commitment to accelerating the...
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February 12, 2024 Google
Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway, with the project scheduled to be fully live by 2026. “Now we are building a data center in Norway!,” Tine Austvoll Jensen, country director for Google Norway, announced on LinkedIn this week. “Today we have finally announced that...
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February 10, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, this week revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. “Still in the early phases of development, Microsoft aims to build out its cloud infrastructure in new areas of South Africa to meet growing demand from public sector and private organizations for...
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February 09, 2024 Google
Kyndryl and Google Cloud, which have been working together since 2021, has agreed to an extended partnership which will see the digital infrastructure services provider offer its clients access to Google’s AI tools, including its Gemini large language models. Following this partnership, the...
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February 09, 2024 Singapore
Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to...
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