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 CtrlS Datacenters has acquired a parcel of land in Patna, India for an Edge data center development on a site less than 300m from its' existing Patna DC1 data center in the Pataliputra Industrial Area.  The company plans to invest around Rs 400 crore ($477.2m) in the facility, which will have...

 Oracle has launched a second cloud region in Saudi Arabia as a part of its planned $1.5 billion investment in the Kingdom. This public cloud region located in Riyadh is hosted in a Center3 data center and will give organizations access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted AST SpaceMobile a license to launch and operate V, S, and UHF frequencies to support gateway, feeder link, and telemetry, tracking, and control operations for the first five commercial satellites later this year.Scott Wisniewski, presiden...

Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group has announced that it has gotten into an agreement to acquire a 50 percent stake in cloud data center provider ResetData for up to $21 million as it plans to expand the group’s revenue stream into a new business line that aims to pro...

Kings College Hospital London in Dubai (KCH Dubai) has migrated its Oracle Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and can now be accessed by more than 1,000 concurrent users across KCH Dubai's facilities. Following this migration, the hospital has reportedly seen...

Liberty Latin American (LLA) and Millicom have signed an agreement merge their operations in Costa Rica which will see LLA hold a stake of around 86 percent in the company, with Millicom holding the remaining 14 percent. The final ownership percentage will be confirmed at closing and the new e...

Australian advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra is expanding its sovereign cloud capacity with a new deployment in NextDC's S3 data center in Sydney, helping the company to meet growing demand from clients for cloud computing and storage capacity.  The solutions provider will commence it...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought in $26.3 billion in revenue for Q2 2024, an 18.8 percent jump over last year.  However, Amazon still recorded a slower  growth rate than its main rivals, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, both of which saw growth of 29 percent in the quarter.  The growth of AW...

 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has added Nvidia L40S GPU bare-metal instances to its cloud infrastructure, launching them alongside plans for a new virtual machine accelerated by a single Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU.  OCI will offer the L40S GPUs in its BM.GPU.L40S.4 bare-metal compute off...

Intel has announced it will be cutting more than 15,000 jobs as part of a $10bn cost-saving plan after the company reported a net loss of $1.6 billion for Q2 2024. The company will also be cutting capex by 20 percent, and reducing non-variable cost of goods sold by roughly $1 billion in 2025. ...

 The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched two separate antitrust probes into GPU and AI giant Nvidia to evaluate whether the company has abused its market dominance and forced companies to buy additional products to receive GPUs, while penalizing those that buy rival chips. This comes a...

The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is planning to propose reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework including around the development of data centers.  With regards to data centers, the proposals would reform the way that the Nationally Significant Infrastructu...

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, ...

Australian wealth management fund Colonial First State (CFS) has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services which will see CFS continue to use Azure as its preferred cloud provider and deploy generative AI use cases in collaboratio...

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls this week announced George R. Oliver has decided to stand down as CEO, following “substantial progress on its portfolio transformation.” The Irish company is now on the hunt for its next CEO with the assistance of an executive search firm to hel...

Microsoft has signed a new cabon capture deal with climate solutions provider 3Degrees  to purchase more than 80,000 metric tons of carbon removals from Western Rivers Conservancy's (WRC) Blue Creek Improved Forest Management Project, located in Northern California.  "Microsoft's investment in...

Thailand-based mobile network operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) is launching a cloud service using Oracle Alloy which it claims will be Thailand's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud, known as AIS Cloud.  Somchai Lertsutiwong, chief executive officer, AIS said:  "For over 34 y...

  Alameda Healthcare Group and Dell Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint data center development in Cairo. Dell will be responsible for providing the data center equipment necessary to Alameda, as well as to provide implementation services. Dell will also of...

 Dell will also offer advisory services to Alameda surrounding Edge computing, network infrastructure, data center core technologies, and multi-cloud solutions.The data center will be located in Cairo, and will host Alameda's digital infrastructure.Dr. Fahad Khater, chairman of Alameda Healthc...

Recently formed colocation firm Alerify, Inc. announced this week that it will be acquiring the assets of the hosting and Internet services business of Elevated MSP which was built in 1981 and is owned by local real estate firm the Vartan Group. The two-story building totals 68,830 square feet...