May 17, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced the launch of a direct liquid cooling (DLC) offering, available in 170 Digital Realty data centers globally. The company noted that the offering includes a range of mechanical solutions, such as rear door heat exchangers (RDHx) and DLC, offering power densities...
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May 16, 2024 Google
Quantum computing firm Alice & Bob this week announced the immediate availability of its Boson 4 single cat-qubit chip series through the cloud via Google Marketplace. “When my co-founder and I started Alice & Bob, many thought cat qubits would never be more than a lab concept. We are now...
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May 13, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been selected to host O2 Telefónica Germany's 5G Standalone (5G SA) network as the telco confirmed that it has launched its 5G Cloud Core, built entirely in the cloud, using technology from vendors Nokia and AWS. “We are building our network of the future. With the...
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May 10, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has broken ground on a new data center outside Tokyo, Japan, marking its third data center at the NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba prefecture. This new 31MW facility, known as NRT14, will be configurable to support private AI deployments at densities up to 70kW per rack via air-assisted...
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May 01, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon has revealed plans to develop data centers at a renewable energy business park in County Offaly, Ireland.AWS will become the first business to develop at the Bord na Móna Eco Energy Park in County Offaly, where it will leverage the energy produced by Bord na Móna's renewable developments...
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April 29, 2024 Equinix
Colocation firm Equinix has signed long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Singapore fromSembcorp Industries. Following the agreements, Sembcorp Power will supply a maximum capacity of 75MWp from its solar assets and 30MW from its gas-power generation portfolio...
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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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April 26, 2024 Google
Google this week revealed plans to expand its footprint in Indiana with a $2 billion data center in Fort Wayne. It also announced a collaboration with Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M) to add clean energy to the local grid. “We are thrilled to announce our investment in Fort Wayne as the...
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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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April 24, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has revealed that it will be partnering with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. The integrated battery banks, housed within Digital Realty’s Irish data centers, will relieve grid dependence on fossil fuel power plants during periods of frequency...
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April 23, 2024 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has revealed that it will be spending €1 billion on a new data center campus development in Dublin. The campus will be built at Profile Park, Grange Castle, a data center hub nine miles south of Dublin which is already home to the likes of Google, Digital Realty, and...
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April 22, 2024 Google
Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees on Wednesday. This comes after a series of internal protests about labor conditions and the company's contract with the Israeli government and military. The protests were led by the "No Tech For Apartheid" organization. One of the protestors...
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April 18, 2024 Edge Centres
Italian fiber firm Open Fiber (formerly Enel Open Fiber) is planning to move into Edge data centers. Andrea Lazzaroli, operational marketing business market manager at Open Fiber, said the company will be deploying Edge data centers along its network. “With the introduction of Edge data centers,...
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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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April 11, 2024 Google
Google has revealed its plans to invest $1 billion in creating two new subsea fiber cable routes between the US and Japan which will be called Proa and Taihei and will be built by Japan's NEC Corp. In a blog post, Google revealed that the investment is in support of Google's Japan Digitization...
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April 11, 2024 NEXTDC
Australian data center operator NextDC is seeking to raise AU$1.3 billion to fund its expansion plans. The company plans to raise the cash from existing investors via a share issue, which will allow its backers to purchase one new share in the company for every six they already own. NextDC says...
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April 10, 2024 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers this week announced that it will open a second Zurich campus (ZRH2) this summer. This new campus located 30 kilometers north of Zurich’s City Center in Glattfelden, will offer a total of 226,000 square feet (21,000 sqm) of space and 24MW of critical IT capacity. “Zurich is a...
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April 08, 2024 Google
Tape Ark has moved a significant collection of tape-based sports video footage to Google Cloud. The cloud ingest of the collection measures over 40 petabytes of video footage. By moving it to the cloud, the broadcaster will be able save time and money on the maintenance of the collection...
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April 08, 2024 Edge Centres
Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US colocation and bare metal provider QuadraNet, sucessfully adding 10 facilities to its US footprint. QuadraNet says it has more than 1,000 active customers and facilities located in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Jersey, Reston,...
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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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