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Vandals in Jasper has reportedly stolen a 200-foot tower belonging to radio station WJLX-AM. Brett Elmore, general manager of WJLX-AM, reported the incident on February 3 through a Facebook post.  He wrote, "I have heard of thieves in this area stealing anything, but this one takes the cake. T...

Swedish vendor Ericsson has announced a long tierm partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, for a joint research relating to AI and Edge computing. Following this partnership, both parties will work towards developing novel AI and distributed compute technology towards 6G...

Cloud provider Vultr recently announced that it will be launching its own content delivery network (CDN) service which will enable global content and media caching, with turnkey services for scaling websites and web applications. J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr’s parent company, Constant said, “Ov...

T-Mobile has completed the expansion of its 5G coverage across Upstate New York, now reaching over 48,000 square miles accross the state. As part of the expansion, T-Mobile has added about 400 new cell sites and upgrades to more than 800 existing towers across the region. “Whether it’s the Cat...

US firm Switch Inc. has revealed plans to expand its data center footprint in Austin, Texas. The company has reportedly applied to build a new data center at its 4100 Smith School Road campus in Southeast Austin. The planned facility is a 300,000-square-foot (27,870 sqm) data center alongside ...

Equinix this week has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement to procure renewable energy in France with wpd. The deal, described as one of the largest of its kind signed in France, was facilitated by Schneider Electric and includes four wind projects in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, two in Hauts-de-F...

Cloudflare has confirmed that it was hacked last year as part of a larger breach of digital identity provider Okta. However, the company notes that all attempts made by the hackers to gain access to the data center’s console were unsuccessful. According to a blog post published on Thursday, th...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported revenues of $24.2 billion in the last three months, year-on-year (YoY) growth of 13 percent. These figures also show a 12 percent increase for the market-leading public cloud platform in the third quarter of the year. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said, "We are now a...

Swiss-based company Energy Vault has found new partners in South Africa for its idea of using concrete blocks to store energy, which can be recovered as electricity when the blocks are lowered. The Gravity Energy Storage Solutions (GESSOL) consortium plans to develop the idea alongside hydroge...

Oracle has revealed plans to open a new cloud region in Kenya and become the first US hyperscale cloud provider to launch in the country. The company mentioned in an announcement this week that it is acting to "meet the growing demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services across Afric...

The University of Texas in Austin is creating a Center for Generative AI powered by a cluster of 600 Nvidia H100 GPUs. This cluster, called Vista, will be hosted and supported by the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will be housed within the university’s interdisciplinary Machine Learning L...

Keppel DC REIT's H2 2023 results revealed that the company’s revenue slowed amidst payment issues with tenant Bluesea Data Development. The company’s revenue increased by 14 percent, but was slowed by a surge in finance costs by 56.1 percent. Keppel recorded a decline in distributions per unit...

Choice Hotels International has closed its last data center and completed its full migration to the cloud after a five year process, which involved decommissioning more than 3,729 servers, retiring over 300 applications, and migrating more than 250 applications. The company will now use only A...

A large residential tower is being proposed above a Telstra exchange in Sydney, Australia. The NSW Department of Planning has reportedly released draft plans for public comment that would see a large multi-story residential skyscraper built above the facility at 524-542 Pacific Highway, St Leo...

Veon subsidiary Banglalink has finally completed the sale of 2,000 of its telecom towers in Bangladesh to Summit Towers. This deal worth $100 million was confirmed by Veon in a statement yesterday. Kaan Terzioğlu, group CEO of Veon, said, “This sale marks an important milestone for us as we co...

Real estate firm Goodman is planning to develop a new data center in Sydney, Australia. The company is reportedly planning to invest $1.4 billion in redeveloping the former ABC television studios on Sydney’s North Shore into a data center. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) sold the...

Nigerian data center firm Rack Centre has appointed Lars Johannisson as its new CEO.Johannisson joins from French outsourcing firm Teleperformance, where he was CEO for sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining Rack Centra, he had held roles at technology holding firm YNV Group, solar company SolarNo...

Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Business division has been hit by a ransomware attack, which led to terabytes of it’s corporate data stolen and the attackers threatening to leak the stolen data if they are not paid. Bleeping Computer reports that the incident was a Cactus ransomware attack...

French colocation firm Nation Data Center, an Altarea Group subsidiary has begun development work on two data centers in Brittany and Normandy. In Brittany, the company has begun work on a new site outside Rennes and plans to construct a 3,000-square-meter facility with an IT capacity of 3MW. ...

Chinese tech giant Tencent this week officially launched a new microgrid project at its Tencent Tianjin High-Tech Cloud Data Center in China, which it says generates enough solar energy to power 6,000 households. Tencent notes that it has installed 10.54MW of solar panels, which will be capabl...