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Read Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio
Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

March 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its plans to invest $175.9 million in a massive new data center in San Antonio. Named “SAT40,” the facility was recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. According to the filing, the facility will be based at Lambda Drive in the Texas Research...

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Read Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS
Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS

Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS

March 09, 2023 Amazon AWS

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have inked a $25 million contract. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon will provide Defra with cloud hosting, its bring-your-own-license software management solution, as well as support, managed...

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Read Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia
Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia

Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia

March 09, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has temporarily halted the building of its massive new facility in Northern Virginia. Company officials stated that layoffs and the popularity of working from home were reasons for halting development. Metropolitan Park, a 2.1 million square foot building with two office towers, will be...

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Read Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill
Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill

Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill

March 06, 2023 Amazon AWS

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the company ceased paying landlords, cleaning, and software providers for services done. But, according to The Information, the corporation has failed to pay its Amazon Web Services payments for months, despite using the cloud provider for crucial components of...

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Read AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia
AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia

AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia

March 05, 2023 Amazon AWS

AWS has launched a new AWS infrastructure Region in Malaysia, and through this, has outlined its intention to invest $6 billion (MYR 25.5 billion) in Malaysia by 2037. According to AWS, to begin with, the region will consist of three Availability Zones. Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of...

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Read Hackers target data center passwords
Hackers target data center passwords

Hackers target data center passwords

February 27, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Last week hackers gained access to two Asia-based data center firms, Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. This revelation, first published by Bloomberg, comes after endpoint security firm Resecurity found evidence they had been compromised. Cyber...

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Read Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint
Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint

Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint

February 27, 2023 Princeton Digital Group

Singapore-based Princeton Digital has announced plans to develop more data centers in Asia, in a bid to support operations in its global headquarters. To do this, the company is injecting an investment of $1 billion. With this, the company is expanding into Batam with a 96-megawatt facility, on a...

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Read Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing
Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

February 26, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for the...

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Read Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light
Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light

Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light

February 24, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans to expand its data center footprint in Northern Virginia, with a huge investment of $35 billion, is continuing to receive pushback from protestors and residents. Northern Virginia has the largest concentration of data centers in the world, being the epicenter of a data center boom...

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Read NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks
NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

February 24, 2023 NTT

NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...

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Read MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India
MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

February 23, 2023 NTT

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chennai...

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Read AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department
AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department

AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department

February 20, 2023 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) availability to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), meaning that the department will be able to more easily deploy modular data centers managed by AWS in infrastructure-limited locations. Through the MDCs, DoD customers will be provided with...

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Read Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas
Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas

Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas

February 20, 2023 Amazon AWS

It has been revealed that in Oregon, Amazon is planning to power at least three of its Oregon data centers with natural gas fuel cells. That said, the number could be as high as seven. Amazon proposes the fuel cell technology it will use will oxidize the fossil fuel to generate electricity....

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Read Amazon Approved For Warrenton Data Facility in Fauquier County, Virginia
Amazon Approved For Warrenton Data Facility in Fauquier County, Virginia

Amazon Approved For Warrenton Data Facility in Fauquier County, Virginia

February 16, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has been approved to build a data center in Fauquier, Virginia. Amazon Data Services' proposal for a special-use permit to build a 220,000-square-foot data center near the junction of Blackwell Road and Lee Highway in Warrenton was approved this week by the Warrenton Town Council 4-3....

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Read Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement
Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement

Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement

February 13, 2023 Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has announced that, through a partnership with RPD Energy, it has made a "landmark series of transactions" meaning that the company will obtain 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement. The US renewable provider RPD Energy will be the lead architect of renewable energy...

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Read Residents raise concern about proposed data center facility in New Albany
Residents raise concern about proposed data center facility in New Albany

Residents raise concern about proposed data center facility in New Albany

February 12, 2023 Amazon AWS

According to reports, residents in Albany are concerned about an Amazon-proposed data center project, which outlines plans for sizable data centers on both sides of Beech Road. Back in January, the giant acquired nearly 400 acres of land at three connected plots on Beech Road; the development...

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Read Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure
Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

February 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling...

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Read STT GDC signs deal to procure renewable energy in India
STT GDC signs deal to procure renewable energy in India

STT GDC signs deal to procure renewable energy in India

February 08, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has signed a deal with O2 Power to procure renewable energy in India. As per the agreement, the company will obtain renewable energy under a captive structure to power STT GDC India’s Bengaluru facility, which is located in the state of Karnataka. O2...

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Read Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia
Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

February 07, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will construct a new Azure cloud region and data center in Saudi Arabia. This week, the company revealed plans to build a new cloud data facility in Saudi Arabia. The news was made at the Riyadh conference LEAP 2023. Microsoft stated that the new cloud region will provide...

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Read Sify recognized as India's first NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center
Sify recognized as India's first NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center

Sify recognized as India's first NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center

February 03, 2023 Sify Technologies

Sify Technologies Limited has announced that it has been recognised as an NVIDIA DGX-Ready data center colocation provider, making it of its kind to be recognized in India. According to Sify, with DGX systems, it will be able to provide its customers with high-compute density, measurable...

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