January 07, 2025 Kyndryl
IBM and GlobalFoundries (GF) have reached a settlement in their long-running legal dispute which saw both companies claim breach of contract and misuse of trade secrets and intellectual property. The two companies said the undisclosed settlement resolves “all litigation matters” and would allow...
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January 01, 2025 Equinix
Equinix and Dell Technologies are teaming up to offer a private AI solution that enables customers to train AI models on public and private clouds deployed on-premises. Using the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia which combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with Nvidia GPUs, the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet...
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December 26, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has agreed to acquire BT Group's Irish data center business for €59 million ($61.3m). The transaction, expected to be completed in H1 of 2025, includes two operational data centers in CityWest and Ballycoolin, Dublin. BT's decision to divest is part of a broader strategy to transition...
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December 20, 2024 Equinix
Equinix and Dell Technologies are teaming up to offer a private AI solution that enables customers to train AI models on public and private clouds deployed on-premises. Using the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia which combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with Nvidia GPUs, the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet...
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December 16, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft this week that it will make a "significant extension of its global data center footprint to Western Australia (WA) to help meet the growing demand for cloud and AI services across the state and support economic growth." The expansion will see Microsoft deploy an Azure Extended Zone to...
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December 13, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval in...
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December 12, 2024 Rackspace
Energy Vault has partnered with data center operator RSDC to deliver 2GW/20GWh of primary power to RSDC data centers through its battery energy storage system (BESS). Energy Vault will deploy its B-Nest BESS, a modular multi-story structure designed to house stackable lithium-ion BESS units at...
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December 12, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval in...
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December 12, 2024 Google
Google has announced its latest quantum computing chip, 'Willow,' claiming that the processor performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes, which would otherwise take 1025 years on a conventional supercomputer. Google said that the new chip has 105 qubits, which can retain an...
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December 11, 2024 Google
Google has launched its self-developed Trillium AI accelerators which are designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Trillium is Google's sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), described as being Google's "most advanced TPU," capable of achieving a 4.7x increase in peak compute...
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December 04, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sembcorp Power for 58.5MW of power which is tol be delivered from a solar installation on 60 hectares of vacant land and the rooftops of five JTC Corporation buildings, including the Jurong Rock Caverns above-ground facilities and Jurong...
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November 30, 2024 Equinix
Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Located within Equinix’s Frankfurt North-East campus, the facility spans 5,295 sqm (57,000 sq ft) with a total capacity of 7.75MW across two data halls on three floors. “The expansion of our North-East campus with FR13 is key to...
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November 27, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the...
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November 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program. The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg, two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district."The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is an...
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November 26, 2024 Equinix
Equinix this week announced its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) facility in Singapore, to be named SG6. With an initial investment of $260 million, the facility will provide liquid cooling capabilities to support high-density workloads. Yee May Leong, managing director, Singapore,...
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November 26, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Aussie retailer Coles Group has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Coles will be using Microsoft's cloud, AI, and Edge computing offerings to develop an AI-as-a-Service platform and to modernize its IT estate. The agreement is hoped...
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November 20, 2024 Kyndryl
IBM is planning to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available as a service via IBM Cloud. The GPUs will be rolled out on the platform in the first half of 2025, with the aim of improving the performance and power efficiency of generative AI models and high-performance computing applications.“As...
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November 19, 2024 Colt Data Centre Services
Colt Data Centre Services and family-owned alternative asset owner RMZ this week announced a 50:50 joint venture to invest $1.7 billion in the Indian data center market. The companies this week said the investment will initially focus on expediting development at Colt’s existing sites in Navi...
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November 18, 2024 Google
Google DeepMind has published a research paper hitting back at criticism of its AI chip design system AlphaChip. That paper claimed that AlphaChip was able to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation of Google TPU AI accelerator, and was already being used by the company to...
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November 14, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in SQL...
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