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Over the next four years, AMD intends to invest $135 million in Ireland. The money will go toward studying and creating data centers, networking, 6G, and generative AI technologies. In addition, the company is anticipated to employ approximately 290 engineers and researchers in the country to ...

Accelevation Holdings has established a new business entity focused on data centers. Conatech and Instor Solutions, two recently acquired subsidiaries, will be combined to form the Accelevation Data Center Business Unit.Accelevation will integrate the white space installation and project manag...

Greenpixie, a London-based startup that calculates emissions data for companies that use cloud computing in data centers has been awarded a £50,000 ($64k) grant to track data center emissions. The UK Government grant is provided through Innovate UK, the UK's national innovation agency. The com...

The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing, tra...

WeTransfer has said it cut its server emissions by 78 per cent in 2022. This comes following the company's 2020 pledge to reduce its emissions by 30 percent by 2025, and its migration to AWS in 2011. The company reportedly achieved "carbon-neutral certification," after using AWS' Customer Carb...

Alphabet reported quarterly sales of $74.6 billion, an increase of 7% from the same period last year.  Profits increased by 15% to $18.4 billion. While advertising sales drove the majority of the company's development, cloud sales increased by 28 % to $8 billion. Google Cloud reported its seco...

This past quarter, Microsoft's capital expenditures increased to $10.7 billion as the company reported spending significantly on data centers, computing, and networking. The company announced that spending would increase each quarter throughout fiscal 2024, already higher than the $7.8bn capit...

Microsoft intends to construct another data center in the San Antonio, Texas, region. The corporation stated in applications with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, initially reported by the San Antonio Business Journal, that the project would cost $230 million.The company inten...

GoDaddy has closed 29 enterprise data centers since 2019 to streamline its data center footprint. The company said it consolidated its presence to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions. GoDaddy pledged to cut Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2022 from a 2019 baseline. Data centers drove GoDaddy'...

KPMG plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in partnership with Microsoft. The global expansion of the 'Big Four' accounting firm's relationship with Microsoft is anticipated to generate up to $12 billion in revenue over the next ...

In its most recent quarterly earnings report, Swedish-Swiss multinational ABB highlighted the expansion of its data center sales. In addition to developing data center power and cooling solutions, the company sells to various industrial sectors. Timo Ihamuotila, the company's CFO, stated on an...

TPG Real Estate now owns 80% of three Digital Realty data centers in the US state of Virginia's Northern Virginia. Digital will continue to oversee the daily operations of the joint venture's facilities. The data center business aims to utilize the $1.3 billion in proceeds from the transaction...

In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center restruct...

The Belgian telecommunications company Proximus is contemplating the sale of its data center unit for approximately €300 million ($329 million). According to Reuters, the company has hired bankers to start working on a sale, which could be used to finance the rollout of 5G and fiber networks. ...

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and FNT Software have announced the signing of an MoU to construct sustainable data centres to support decarbonization efforts. Through the MoU, MHI’s analysis and energy management solutions will be integrated into FNT’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM)...

Integrated Telecom Co. Ltd., Khazzan Information Technology Co.,  Cinturion Corp Ltd and Emaar, The Economic City (EEC) have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement to explore the development of a digital infrastructure hub. This will reportedly comprise data centers, an...

A new campus for its data centers is being built by QTS on 400 acres of land in York County, South Carolina. Citing York County real estate documents, BizJournal reports that two entities linked with QTS Realty Trust LLC have acquired nearly 400 acres off S.C. Highway 274 for more than $11.2 m...

The 2023 Google environmental report shows a considerable increase in data center water consumption. The company consumed an astounding 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, of which 5.2 billion were used solely for data centers. Compared to the previous year, this is 20% higher. Large data ce...

Sify has raised over $70 million to develop new data centers. This funding was made public this week during the company's quarterly earnings report. Sify and Sify Infinit Spaces Limited ("SIS"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sify that operates its data centers, recently entered into a contract ...