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Read Global Switch CEO to retire and be replaced by COO Muldoon
Global Switch CEO to retire and be replaced by COO Muldoon

Global Switch CEO to retire and be replaced by COO Muldoon

December 28, 2023 Global Switch

Global Switch CEO John Corcoran is retiring and the company has announced that he will be stepping down from his duties on December 31, 2023. Global Switch's current chief operating officer Ashley Muldoon is to be appointed CEO, and will join the board. Shareholder approval for his appointment is...

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Read Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers
Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

December 28, 2023 Equinix

Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued green...

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Read CtrlS breaks ground on new data center in Gujarat, India
CtrlS breaks ground on new data center in Gujarat, India

CtrlS breaks ground on new data center in Gujarat, India

December 28, 2023 CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

CtrlS Datacenters has broken ground on its greenfield data center in GIFT City, Gujarat, India as it announces that it intends to invest Rs 250 crore in the project which is dubbed CtrlS Gandhinagar 1 DC. At the launch ceremony, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendrabhai Patel, laid the first stone...

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Read Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center
Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center

Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center

December 23, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has provided a few more details about Blue Origin's plans to put compute in space, which was first announced in October. Bezos explained on the Lex Fridman podcast that the 'Blue Ring' project, aims to provide multiple services to space customers. He said, "Blue Ring is...

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Read Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia
Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

December 20, 2023 Google

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief customer...

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Read LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace
LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

December 18, 2023 Google

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that...

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Read Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities
Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

December 12, 2023 Equinix

Colocation firm Equinix announced this week that it plans to expand support for liquid cooling technologies – including direct-to-chip – to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros globally. Tiffany Osias, VP of global colocation at Equinix...

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Read Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix
Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

December 05, 2023 Equinix

Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equinix...

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Read Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power
Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

November 29, 2023 Google

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and...

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Read Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer
Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer

Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer

November 29, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is in partnership with GPU-maker Nvidia to launch the Project Ceiba supercomputer. This supercomputer is expected to be the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer, featuring 16,384 GH200 NVL32 Grace Hopper Superchips. The system will also feature the AWS...

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Read OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team
OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

November 28, 2023 Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

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Read OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department
OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

November 27, 2023 Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, with...

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Read NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center
NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center

NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center

November 23, 2023 NEXTDC

Two years after sharing initial plans, NextDC has finally begun construction at its D1 8MW data center in Australia's Northern Territory in Darwin. The site located close to the Charles Darwin University CBD campus is being constructed by Kapitol Group NT and is expected to create around 200 jobs...

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Read Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW
Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

November 22, 2023 Google

Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied for...

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Read Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia
Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

November 14, 2023 Google

Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks a...

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Read Google signs first wind PPA in Poland
Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

November 03, 2023 Google

Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said,...

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Read STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City
STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

October 31, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Philippines has completed the construction of a 1.2MW data center in Makati City, the Philippines. This new facility on the outskirts of Manila, has a capacity for around 100 racks and can support loads between 5kW and 12kW. Operations. Carlo Malana, president and...

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Read Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services
Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services

Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services

October 30, 2023 Google

Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...

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Read Amazon to launch sovereign cloud region in Europe
 Amazon to launch sovereign cloud region in Europe

Amazon to launch sovereign cloud region in Europe

October 26, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has revealed its plans to launch new cloud regions in Europe. The company notes that the first region will be in Germany, suggesting that the company plans to launch more than one. “The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will allow government agencies, regulated industries, and the...

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Read Amazon announces new European projects
 Amazon announces new European projects

Amazon announces new European projects

October 25, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon, which is already the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe, recently invested in more wind and solar farms in the continent. The new projects Amazon announced this week includes 15 rooftop solar installations on Amazon facilities in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, and...

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