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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...

Microsoft is planning to invest €6.69 billion ($7.16bn) in developing new data centers in the northeastern region of Aragon, Spain in a deal expected to span over the next 10 years. The regional government of Aragon has said that Microsoft filed for a construction permit to build data centers ...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Project Natick which had been quiet for a number of years but has continued to be referenced by media and other companies as an ongoing initiative is no longer active."I'm not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world," Noelle Walsh, the head of the co...

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...

Provident Realty Advisors notified Chesterton officials on June 10 about its intention to withdraw its proposal for a $1.3 billion data center in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana.The led to from residents regarding the development, with concerns surrounding negative impacts of air, water, en...

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...

Airtel Africa announced on LinkedIn that a large portion of the 2Africa cable, connecting Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, is now operational. It currently is the world’s largest subsea cable and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The cable is e...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to launch a cloud region in Taipei, Taiwan and also invest "billions of dollars" in the country over the next 15 years.“Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025,” the company said in an announcement this week. “T...

Du, an Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC)-owned company is set to deploy Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to the government and public sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company will focus its offering on Dubai and the Northern Emirates and wi...

Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn has invested in liquid cooling firm ZutaCore as part of the agreement to help accelerate the deployment of its HyperCool liquid cooling technology.“With dozens of HyperCool deployments in production, ZutaCore has emerged as the clear leader of direct...

Digital Parks Africa (DPA) has revealed plans to extend its Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa by  4.5MW, adding 810 sqm and 570 racks as it currently offers more than 1,620 sqm of dedicated whitespace with the potential to expand to more than 9,000 sqm and 24MW.“The...

KDDI-owned Telehouse Canada this week officially launched its first three data centers in downtown Toronto and is now offering services from three carrier-neutral data centers, located at 151 Front Street West, 250 Front Street West, and 905 King Street West."We are the first global leader wit...

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...

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...

Infrastructure-based connectivity provider Lightpath has announced an agreement to acquire all of the assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD) in a transaction  subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024.UFD owns and operates a diverse 323-route mile, hi...

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement for the football club to deploy HPE GreenLake and Aruba Networks at its new facilities. Following this agreement,  HPE will be the new Espai Barça Official Edge-to-Cloud Partner for the next four seasons, until 30 June ...

O2 Telefónica and Ericsson have signed an extension to their existing core network partnership and are now planning to  "launch the next evolutionary stage in the operator’s drive to capture 5G value in the country." The contract extension builds on the telco's recent cloud-native transformati...

Crown castle which operates more than 40,000 towers, has acknowledged that it's become more difficult to build new infrastructure. This is due to opposition from residents and the fact that some municipalities don't want more telecom masts at all."It's generally because it's very difficult to ...

France's nuclear waste agency, Andra, has cut down its energy usage and cooling costs by as much as 20 percent through the switch by moving from old HPE equipment to Pure Storage hardware.According to Olivier Tardy, head of infrastructure operations in the department of the CIO at Andra, the a...

Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI have revealed plans to expand the Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)  Supercluster, for training AI models. It can scale 64k Nvidia Blackwell GPUs or GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips connected by ultra-low-latency RDMA cluster network...