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Read AWS on track for annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion
AWS on track for annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion

AWS on track for annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion

April 29, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set for an annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion as its first quarter has seen revenue of $25 billion, representing Year-on-Year (YoY) revenue growth of 17.2 percent, up from 13.2 percent in Q4 of 2023. CEO Andy Jassy told investors during the earnings call:...

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Read Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion
Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

April 26, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, during its quarterly earnings call revealed that its cloud unit surpassed $31.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, up by 24 percent YoY. This led to a 4% increase in the company’s stock market, bridging the value to $128 billion. "We have the most comprehensive cloud footprint with...

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Read AWS announces new campus in Indiana
AWS announces new campus in Indiana

AWS announces new campus in Indiana

April 25, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is behind a planned data center in Indiana. The state overnor Eric J. Holcomb this week announced plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center campus in north central Indiana – the largest capital investment announcement in Indiana’s history....

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Read Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola
Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

April 24, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion investment to use Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of a five-year agreement that will see Microsoft support Coca-Cola's core technology strategy systemwide. “This new agreement builds on the success of Coca-Cola’s partnership...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing
EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

April 12, 2024 EdgeConneX

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robust...

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Read Amazon launches Deadline Cloud
Amazon launches Deadline Cloud

Amazon launches Deadline Cloud

April 05, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a cloud-based rendering service called Deadline Cloud which will enable users to deploy and scale up graphics and handle visual effects (VFX) rendering on AWS cloud infrastructure. This rendering service is aimed at customers in media and entertainment, and...

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Read Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas
Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

April 02, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsofr this week announced that it has entered into a two 200MW Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Energy firm Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) which will help it purchase the power generated from two 200MW LRE solar facilities currently under development in Texas: Morrow Lake Solar in Frio...

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Read Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic

Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic

April 01, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon has invested an additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic in a deal which marks the second round of funding provided by the cloud and eCommerce giant under a previously agreed plan to invest up to $4bn in the startup. Amazon made an initial investment of $1.25bn for a minority stake...

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Read PDG completes first phase of Tokyo data center
PDG completes first phase of Tokyo data center

PDG completes first phase of Tokyo data center

March 27, 2024 Princeton Digital Group

Data center operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has completed the first phase of its 96MW data center campus, TY1, in Tokyo, Japan which included the core and shell construction of a six-story facility, expected to supply 48MW of IT capacity. The TY1 data center located in Saitama City, 30km...

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Read Danske Bank signs new cloud agreement with Amazon
Danske Bank signs new cloud agreement with Amazon

Danske Bank signs new cloud agreement with Amazon

March 26, 2024 Amazon AWS

Denmark's Danske Bank has signed a multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This will include systems for business, institutional and personal customers, and will see more than 16,000 physical and virtual servers, and 1,000 applications being migrated. Danske Bank said it will...

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Read Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations
Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

March 23, 2024 Equinix

Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at least...

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Read Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico
Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico

Microsoft signs carbon capture agreement in Mexico

March 23, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a six-year carbon capture agreement with The Next 150 and its General Biochar Systems (GBS) business unit, which runs the biochar plant near the city of Guanajuato.. This agreement will see Microsoft purchase 95,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from a biochar plant...

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Read Amazon signs new wind PPA in the UK
Amazon signs new wind PPA in the UK

Amazon signs new wind PPA in the UK

March 22, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon this week announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Iberdrola to to procure the output of an offshore wind farm in the UK. The deal is to offtake 159MW from the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm – equivalent to 700GWh of energy annually. Sergio Hernández de...

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Read Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project
Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project

Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project

March 16, 2024 Amazon AWS

Electronics giant Philips and AWS have partnered for a medical technology project to make digitalized pathology slides available at scale in the cloud. This is an expansion of the existing relationship with both companies, with Philips having selected AWS as its cloud partner seven years ago....

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Read Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO
Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as  new CEO

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

March 14, 2024 Equinix

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 2020....

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Read Keppel plans expansion into Japan
Keppel plans expansion into Japan

Keppel plans expansion into Japan

March 14, 2024 Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. In this regard, the company has siged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Fudosan) to ‘jointly explore data center development and investment opportunities’ in Japan and...

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Read Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters
Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

March 13, 2024 Microsoft Azure

Meta has shared the details of the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that make up its two new 24,000-GPU data center scale training clusters. These clusters based on Meta’s AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) are being usedto train its Llama 3 large language AI model. In a...

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Read WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

March 12, 2024 CDC Cyber Data Center International

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will...

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Read BDx secures loan to buy Singapore data center freehold
BDx secures loan to buy Singapore data center freehold

BDx secures loan to buy Singapore data center freehold

March 09, 2024 BDx Data Centers

BDx Data Centers this week announced its Singapore loan market debut with a US$155 million facility from DBS Bank and OCBC. Most of the secures financing will be used to acquire the freehold of OneTen Paya Lebar, the site of BDx’s flagship SIN1 data center. The remaining amount will be diverted...

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Read Wex Inc. completes primary cloud migration
Wex Inc. completes primary cloud migration

Wex Inc. completes primary cloud migration

March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS

Global payment processing company Wex Inc. has completed its primary could migration with the full migration of the benefits segment in its annual report. The report did not disclse the cloud provider it moved to. However, the company in 2021 announced that it was entering into a multiyear...

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