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The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperation Ltd (IFFCO) has revealed plans to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for drone-based fertilizer spraying and has built a cloud-native application on Oracle Cloud that enables farmers to easily book, view, and manage drone-based spraying of IFFCO nan...

Investment firm Actis this week announced the launch of Epoch Digital, with a current portfolio under development offering 200MW of IT capacity across three identified projects and more in the pipeline.CEO Chng said: “The emergence of generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedente...

Pan-African data center and fiber group WIOCC has secured green financing deal fromthe International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco to fund its data center and fiber roll-out in three African countries.“We are excited to conclude this next stage of our capital raise, which will enable ...

Johnson Controls  this week announced it had reached a definitive agreement to sell its Air Distribution Technologies business to Truelink, a middle-market private equity firm based in Los Angeles. The brands included in this sale are Koch Filter, Titus, Ruskin, Krueger, PennBarry, and Tuttle ...

IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data center on the company’s premises in Munich, Germany which currently houses two IQM quantum machines and will eventually have space to host up to 12 quantum computers, with 800kW of power capacity.“Our aim is to solve business challenges b...

Duos Technology, a company that specializes in Machine Vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, has launched a new edge data center unit called Duos Edge AI, Inc. The company noted it already deploys some solutions – including a railcar inspection system used by companies...

Oracle has announced plans to invest over $1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Spain which will enable Oracle to open a third cloud computing region in the country, located in Madrid.“The opening of the third Oracle cloud region in Spain is excellent news for our c...

The US Navy has conducted a pilot project to see if users at sea can connect to cloud services and the project has demonstrated that the Navy can consistently move several terabytes of data each day between the cloud and thousands of users.Navy CIO Commander Kevin White during a live video dem...

KKR and Singtel are set to invest  in ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in an investment which will comprise an initial S$1.75bn (US$1.3bn) by the consortium via Redeemable Preference Shares. Once finished, Singtel and KKR may invest an additional S$1.24bn.Bruno Lopez, president & group CEO...

Vertiv alongside fuel cell firm Ballard Power Systems this week entered into a strategic technology partnership, with a focus on backup power applications for data centers and critical infrastructures, scalable from 200kW to multiple megawatts.“As the soaring increase in data usage is driving ...

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal to purchase 40,000 agricultural soil-based carbon credits from Indigo AG's  third carbon crop, issued in February.Brian Marrs, senior director of energy and carbon removal at Microsoft said: “Soil organic carbon restoration is vital to the future of f...

Real estate services firm CBRE this week announced the acquisition of Direct Linel, a provider of mission-critical data center infrastructure, from Guardian Capital, a private equity firm.“This acquisition fits squarely with our strategy of enhancing our capabilities in asset classes that bene...

HPE and Nvidia have entered a partnership to develop a portfolio of AI products, which the two companies say will enable enterprises to accelerate the adoption of generative AI. According to a joint statement, the HPE Private Cloud AI integrates Nvidia’s AI computing, networking, and software ...

Finnish state-owned energy company Fortum is planning to develop a data center in Central Finland and has  signed a letter of intent with the city of Jyväskylä to build a data center complex of at least 20 hectares on land owned by the city in the Seppälänkangas area of Jyväskylä.“Fortum is an...

Oil and gas company Petronas Lubricants International announced this week that it will be launching its Petronas Iona Tera, a liquid coolant specifically designed for data centers, and has partnered with Iceotope.Petronas Lubricants International’s MD and group CEO, Hezlinn Idris said: "Petron...

HPE has partnered with engineering company Danfoss on a new package to help data center operators recover waste heat in a deal which will see HPE’s scalable modular data center (MDC) products combined with Danfoss heat reuse solutions.“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of h...

Quantum computing firm D-Wave will be placing an Advantage system on-premise at a new site operated by defense company Davidson Technologies. The QPU will be located at Davidson’s new global headquarters in Huntsville and placed in a secure facility developed to run sensitive applications.“Dav...

Reliance Jio is experiencing a nationwide outage across India as customers are experiencing issues with mobile Internet services, Jio Fiber, and other Jio services."Metrics show a disruption to leading India Internet provider Reliance Jio (AS55836) affecting multiple regions, corroborating use...

Edge computing firm StackPath is closing the business and liquidating its assets as confirmed by many of its employees on LinkedIn. StackPath services set to be shuttered include Edge compute, DNS, object storage, network transit, data center colocation, and server monitoring. “After careful c...

The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50 ye...