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Open Compute begins trials with hyperscale companies to test green concrete

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has announced a new collaboration with several hyperscale companies including Google, AWS, Meta, and Microsoft to test developing and deploying low-embodied carbon concrete, or “green concrete.” The initiative is in line with an open letter written b...

August 25, 2024

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Google to invest $1bn Dallas data centers expansion

Google has announced new data center investment plans for Dallas as it revealed plans to invest $1 billion in Texas this year through its data center campuses in Midlothian and Red Oak. The company said the investment would take its spending in the Lone Star State to $2.7 billion. Google said...

August 18, 2024

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Equinix explores deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at Dublin data center

Colocation firm Equinix is exploring deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at its data center in Dublin, Ireland. A spokesperson for the company noted that while a temporary demonstration pod was deployed at one of the company's sites on tour from ESB and GeoPura, is not a permanent deployment. P...

August 17, 2024

Equinix

Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud

Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to create sovereign and Edge cloud services in Indonesia. The telco will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on-premises to customers in Indonesia via its data center arm. Customers will also have acc...

August 13, 2024

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Equinix surpasses $1bn EBITDA for Q2

Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. The company Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. Furthermore, the quarter's results saw operating income up 20 percent compared to the previous qua...

August 09, 2024

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Google Cloud offers Y Combinator startups access to dedicated Nvidia GPU cluster

Google Cloud has announced that it will be offering Y Combinator startups access to a subsidized cluster of Nvidia GPUs and Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) to build artificial intelligence (AI) models. Google will also be offering priority access to the Summer 2024 cohort of startups, ...

August 02, 2024

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Humana selects Google Cloud for its IT infrastructure

Humana Inc., a healthcare insurance company and Google Cloud have entered into an agreement which will see Humana modernizing its cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud, and using the Google's artificial intelligence technologies. Jim Rechtin, Humana CEO said: “Embracing technology solutions...

July 31, 2024

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Jaguar's Formula E team selects Google Cloud as cloud partner

Jaguar's Formula E team has selected Google Cloud as cloud partner and will be using Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies both on and off the track during the 2024/25 season. James Barclay, managing director of JLR Motorsport and Jagar TCS racing team pr...

July 27, 2024

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Equinix announces expansion into the Philippines with three data centers

Equinix this week announced that it will be entering into the Philippines market after purchasing three facilities from Total Information Management, a local technology solutions provider. This deal comprises three carrier-neutral and interconnection-rich data centers with more than 1,000 cabi...

July 23, 2024

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Google launches air-gapped GDC hardware

Google has launched an air-gapped version of its Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) hardware for AI which will enable enterprises to use cloud infrastructure for AI workloads in challenging environments outside of Google's data centers. Sachin Gupta, Google Cloud's general manager for infrastructu...

July 20, 2024

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Google signs new digital infrastructure and cloud computing MoU

Google has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Romania and the company for ‘projects in digital infrastructure, innovation, and research.’ Local press has also reported that Google is in negotiations to invest $2 billion in developing data centers in the country....

July 18, 2024

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Ericsson to book impairment charge for Vonage acquisition

Ericsson has confirmed that it will record a noncash impairment charge of 11.4 billion Swedish crowns, which reflects lower anticipated market growth in some of Vonage’s current portfolio."We continue to advance our strategy to build a Global Network Platform for network APIs, which was the st...

July 05, 2024

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Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber form new partnership terrestrial cable development

Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber have partnered to develop a new 1,850km terrestrial cable which will will span the breadth of Turkey (officially Türkiye), with the potential to run along the Iraq border as an alternative to subsea cables in the Red Sea corridor.Steve Roberts, senior vice pr...

July 04, 2024

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Google signs new wind PPAs in Belgium

Google has signed five new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) totaling more than 118MW to procure wind energy in Belgium from Engie. Google will procure another 92MW from a Belgian wind farm in operation for eight years.Vincent Verbeke, CEO of Engie Belgium, said: “We are pleased to partner with...

July 03, 2024

Google

Google signs new power supply deal with Nevada Energy

Google has signed a new type of power supply deal with Nevada utility company NV Energy. Dubbed a “clean transition tariff," it will see NV Energy procure 115MW of renewable energy from a geothermal power plant run by Fervo Energy.In a joint blog post on the deal, Amanda Peterson Corio, Google...

June 14, 2024

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Equinix announces second data center in Lisbon, Portugal

Equinix this week announced plans for LS2, a new International Business Exchange (IBX) facility to be located adjacent to Equinix's existing LS1 site. This €50 million project due to open in the first quarter of 2025 will offer 2,050 square meters of colocation space.Carlos Paulino, managing...

June 05, 2024

Equinix

Google partners with Purdue University for low-carbon data center construction

Google has partnered with Purdue University, Indiana, on a project exploring the use of AI in designing low-carbon data centers and other industrial buildings. The project will deploy AI to explore new materials, technologies, and design strategies that can potentially reduce the carbon footpr...

June 01, 2024

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Google to invest in Malaysian cloud region

Google has revealed its plans to invest $2 billion in developing its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia and has already selected a site for the development, which will be in Sime Darby Property's Elmina Business Park in Greater Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president, chief investment o...

May 30, 2024

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New startup launched by ex-Google staff targets European data centers

A new startup by former Google staff, offering land and power for industrial campuses is now targeting European data centers. “I am very pleased to announce the launch of Sepia Infrastructure,” Sepia CEO Fabien Vieau announced on LinkedIn this week. “Sepia Infrastructure delivers next-generati...

May 30, 2024

Google

Equinix breaks ground in Malaysia with two new data centers

Equinix has now broken ground in Malaysia with two International Business Exchange data centers in Johor (JH1) and Kuala Lumpur (KL1) now serving the company’s customers in Malaysia and across. Jeremy Deutsch, president for Asia-Pacific at Equinix, said: “Malaysia is a cornerstone market and t...

May 28, 2024

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