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Read Google unveils first data center campus in Norway
Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

February 12, 2024 Google

Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway, with the project scheduled to be fully live by 2026. “Now we are building a data center in Norway!,” Tine Austvoll Jensen, country director for Google Norway, announced on LinkedIn this week. “Today we have finally announced that...

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Read Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs
Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

February 09, 2024 Google

Kyndryl and Google Cloud, which have been working together since 2021, has agreed to an extended partnership which will see the digital infrastructure services provider offer its clients access to Google’s AI tools, including its Gemini large language models. Following this partnership, the...

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Read Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center
Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

January 19, 2024 Manchester

Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of new...

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Read Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform
Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

January 19, 2024 Google

Global payment services company Worldline has agreed to migrate its operations to Google Cloud Platform as a part of its “Move to Cloud” program. Following this partnership, the payment service company will use Google’s Could Infrastructure and Google's data analytics and AI offerings to develop...

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Read Google to expand data center footprint in London
Google to expand data center footprint in London

Google to expand data center footprint in London

January 17, 2024 Google

Google this week announced it has commenced plans to expand its data center footprint in the UK with a new campus outside London in Hertfordshire. The company has started building a new facility on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, north of London. And plans to invest $1 billion in the project....

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Read Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team
Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

January 16, 2024 Google

Google Cloud recently announced that former Okta executive Oliver Parker has now been recruited by the company to lead a newly formed go-to-market (GTM) organization. Parker will now become the VP of AI to report directly to Google Cloud’s president of GTM, Adaire Fox-Martin. Parker wrote on...

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Read Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea
Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

January 13, 2024 Google

Google revealed in a recent announcement that it will be joining a consortium to deploy the first subsea cable between Chile and Australia. The company said, “Today, we’re joining Desarrollo País of Chile and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to announce Humboldt, a...

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Read Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees
Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

January 12, 2024 Google

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data...

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Read Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners
Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

January 10, 2024 London

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of...

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Read Kao Data names Doug Loewe as CEO
Kao Data names Doug Loewe as CEO

Kao Data names Doug Loewe as CEO

January 09, 2024 KAO Data

UK data center firm Kao Data this week announced a change of leadership with an appointment of Doug Loewe as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. Loewe said, “For almost a decade, Kao Data has established an enviable reputation as a pioneer within the fields of AI and...

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Read King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal
King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal

King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal

January 06, 2024 Amazon AWS

In a recent development, Virginia's King George County Board of Supervisors voted to renegotiate the performance agreement with Amazon. This agreement is for the facility's first phase at the old Birchwood power plant on State Route 3 near Sealston. Following the existing agreement, Amazon would...

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Read Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands
Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

December 28, 2023 Google

Google has broken ground on a new data center in the Netherlands and has officially begun work on the facility in Winschoten, Groningen, in the north of the country. Marco Ynema, data center lead in the Netherlands at Google, said, "People are increasingly using digital tools, and organizations...

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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 Kao Data to open access to Harlow data center to Jisc
Kao Data to open access to Harlow data center to Jisc

Kao Data to open access to Harlow data center to Jisc

December 09, 2023 KAO Data

UK operator Kao Data has partnered with Jisc to give the latter's customers access to its Harlow data center capacity. Through this partnership, users of Janet (the UK's national research and education network) will enable Jisc's 18 million+ user base to access capacity at the Harlow data campus....

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Read Kao Data’s second Harlow facility now ready for operation
Kao Data’s second Harlow facility now ready for operation

Kao Data’s second Harlow facility now ready for operation

December 01, 2023 KAO Data

Kao Data recently completed work on its second data center in Harlow, UK and has noted that the facility is now ready for operations. According to a LinkedIn post shared by the company on November 28, the KLON-02 is a 10MW data center that has been designed and built "to the highest standards of...

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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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