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Vantage closes $9.2bn equity raise

Vantage Data Centers revealed this week that it had completed a $9.2 billion equity investment led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake.“It’s exciting to experience such strong investor demand to fuel our unprecedented growth across North America and EMEA,” said Sure...

June 14, 2024

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Microsoft signs 420MW worth of PPAs

Microsoft has signed a number of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Sweden and Denmark from European Energy. It will procure the output of six wind and solar sites in Spain from Repsol.“We are excited that Microsoft has committed itself to driving forward the green...

June 13, 2024

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Microsoft plans new data center in Northwest Indiana

Microsoft has revealed its plans to build a 245,000-square-foot data center on 489 acres at the Radius Industrial Park in La Porte with a $1 billion investment.“Indiana is committed to being a central hub in the global economy of the future, and this latest announcement ensures Hoosier communi...

June 08, 2024

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Microsoft allegedly nears multi-million-euro agreement with CISPE for antitrust complaint

Microsoft is reportedly nearing a multi-million-euro agreement with cloud lobby CISPE- also known as Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe to put an end to its antitrust complaint according to news first reported by Politico. However, a CISPE representative denied the claims to Reu...

June 03, 2024

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Microsoft to purchase one million tons of carbon energy credits

Microsoft is buying one million tons of carbon removal credits from a renewable energy company in Denmark, following its aim to invest in carbon capture technology. The tech giant will purchase the credits from Avedøre power station in Copenhagen, which is operated by energy company Ørsted, in...

May 24, 2024

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Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich recently claimed that Microsoft will be deploying the equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers every single month. That would represent the equivalent of 72,000 H100 GPUs every month, spread out across the company's growing data center footprint, and a ...

May 18, 2024

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Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center

Microsoft recently announced that it will be investing $3.3 billion in the AI data center it is building in Wisconsin to “expand its national cloud and AI infrastructure capacity.” The company will also be co-funding a new solar energy project which will generate 250MW of power.Microsoft noted...

May 14, 2024

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Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region

Te Tumu Paeroa, the office of the Maori Trustee, has signed an agreement to become the anchor tenant of Microsoft's upcoming New Zealand cloud region. The agreement with Microsoft and associated cloud migration is hoped to help landowners recover from major weather events more quickly, support...

May 11, 2024

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Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil

Microsoft this week has finalized its carbon removal project with Re green in a deal which will fund the restoration of more than 16,000 hectares of degraded pastureland across Brazil (over half of which is already acquired with restoration activities underway), including in the States of Mara...

May 10, 2024

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Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland

Microsoft revealed this week that it has entered into a long-term deal to offtake the output of the newly commissioned Lenalea Wind Farm near Letterkenny, County Donegal."At Microsoft, we are committed to playing our part in supporting the decarbonization of energy grids in markets in which we...

May 07, 2024

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Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden

Microsoft has signed the world’s largest carbon capture deal with Stockholm Exergi to remove carbon from an upcoming biomass plant in Sweden. The deal will cover 3.33 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm.“We ar...

May 06, 2024

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Microsoft signs renewable energy framework deal with Brookfield

Microsoft has entered an agreement to invest an estimated $10 billion in renewable electricity projects to be developed by Brookfield Asset Management. The “global framework agreement” signed by the cloud company is a commitment to bring 10.5 gigawatts of generating capacity online.“Microsoft ...

May 01, 2024

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Microsoft plans Azure cloud region in Thailand

Microsoft has revealed plans to build cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand, including a data center region as part of its digital infrastructure commitment to expand the availability of the company's hyperscale cloud services.At the Microsoft Build AI Day in Bangkok, Microsoft CEO Satya Nad...

May 01, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

Microsoft, during its quarterly earnings call revealed that its cloud unit surpassed $31.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, up by 24 percent YoY. This led to a 4% increase in the company’s stock market, bridging the value to $128 billion. "We have the most comprehensive cloud footprint with...

April 26, 2024

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Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion investment to use Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of a five-year agreement that will see Microsoft support Coca-Cola's core technology strategy systemwide.“This new agreement builds on the success of Coca-Cola’s partnership ...

April 24, 2024

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Vantage plansnew billion dollar data cener campus in Ireland

Vantage Data Centers has revealed that it will be spending €1 billion on a new data center campus development in Dublin. The campus will be built at Profile Park, Grange Castle, a data center hub nine miles south of Dublin which is already home to the likes of Google, Digital Realty, and Cyru...

April 23, 2024

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage to unveil new data center campus in Switzerland

Vantage Data Centers this week announced that it will open a second Zurich campus (ZRH2) this summer. This new campus located 30 kilometers north of Zurich’s City Center in Glattfelden, will offer a total of 226,000 square feet (21,000 sqm) of space and 24MW of critical IT capacity. “Zurich is...

April 10, 2024

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Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

Microsofr this week announced that it has entered into a two 200MW Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Energy firm Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) which will help it purchase the power generated from two 200MW LRE solar facilities currently under development in Texas: Morrow Lake Solar in Frio...

April 02, 2024

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Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico

Microsoft has signed a six-year carbon capture agreement with The Next 150 and its General Biochar Systems (GBS) business unit, which runs the biochar plant near the city of Guanajuato.. This agreement will see Microsoft purchase 95,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from a biochar pla...

March 23, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Keppel plans expansion into Japan

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. In this regard, the company has siged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Fudosan) to ‘jointly explore data center development and investment opportunities’ in Japan and ...

March 14, 2024

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