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Read Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas
Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

February 21, 2024 Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of...

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Read Google confirms expansion in South Carolina
Google confirms expansion in South Carolina

Google confirms expansion in South Carolina

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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Read Bloom Energy adds load ability to fuel cells
Bloom Energy adds load ability to fuel cells

Bloom Energy adds load ability to fuel cells

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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Read FirstNet and AT&T announces $8 billion investment
FirstNet and AT&T announces  $8 billion investment

FirstNet and AT&T announces $8 billion investment

February 15, 2024 AT&T

US operator AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) have announced a ten-year, $8 billion investment to expand and upgrade the nationwide public safety network. FirstNet will invest $6.3 billion through its network contract with AT&T and "anticipates an additional...

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Read Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon
Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon

Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon

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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Read Google unveils first data center campus in Norway
Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

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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Read Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs
Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

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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Read Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform
Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

January 19, 2024 Google

Global payment services company Worldline has agreed to migrate its operations to Google Cloud Platform as a part of its “Move to Cloud” program. Following this partnership, the payment service company will use Google’s Could Infrastructure and Google's data analytics and AI offerings to...

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Read Google to expand data center footprint in London
Google to expand data center footprint in London

Google to expand data center footprint in London

January 17, 2024 Google

Google this week announced it has commenced plans to expand its data center footprint in the UK with a new campus outside London in Hertfordshire. The company has started building a new facility on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, north of London. And plans to invest $1 billion in the project....

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Read Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team
Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

January 16, 2024 Google

Google Cloud recently announced that former Okta executive Oliver Parker has now been recruited by the company to lead a newly formed go-to-market (GTM) organization. Parker will now become the VP of AI to report directly to Google Cloud’s president of GTM, Adaire Fox-Martin. Parker wrote on...

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Read Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea
Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

January 13, 2024 Google

Google revealed in a recent announcement that it will be joining a consortium to deploy the first subsea cable between Chile and Australia. The company said, “Today, we’re joining Desarrollo País of Chile and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to announce Humboldt, a...

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Read Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees
Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

January 12, 2024 Google

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and...

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Read AT&T’s outage impacts South Texas
AT&T’s outage impacts South Texas

AT&T’s outage impacts South Texas

January 08, 2024 AT&T

The outage from AT&T which was blamed on copper thefts in the area have now impacted residents in South Dallas, Texas. Thiis outage which led to services going down since Christmas day have reportedly caused losses of revenue for businesses in the area. AT&T said in an announcement,...

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Read King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal
King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal

King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal

January 06, 2024 Amazon AWS

In a recent development, Virginia's King George County Board of Supervisors voted to renegotiate the performance agreement with Amazon. This agreement is for the facility's first phase at the old Birchwood power plant on State Route 3 near Sealston. Following the existing agreement,...

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Read Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands
Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

December 28, 2023 Google

Google has broken ground on a new data center in the Netherlands and has officially begun work on the facility in Winschoten, Groningen, in the north of the country. Marco Ynema, data center lead in the Netherlands at Google, said, "People are increasingly using digital tools, and...

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Read Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center
Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center

Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center

December 23, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has provided a few more details about Blue Origin's plans to put compute in space, which was first announced in October. Bezos explained on the Lex Fridman podcast that the 'Blue Ring' project, aims to provide multiple services to space customers. He said,...

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Read Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia
Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

December 20, 2023 Google

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief customer...

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Read LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace
LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

December 18, 2023 Google

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates"...

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Read Nokia foresees revenue dip after losing multi-billion dollar AT&T contract
Nokia foresees revenue dip after losing multi-billion dollar AT&T contract

Nokia foresees revenue dip after losing multi-billion dollar AT&T contract

December 09, 2023 AT&T

Nokia has mentioned that it expects to see a dent in its revenues following AT&T's decision to award a lucrative Open RAN contract worth $14 billion to rival Ericsson. The company added that it expects revenue from AT&T in mobile networks to decrease over the next two to three years...

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Read Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power
Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

November 29, 2023 Google

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and...

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