November 14, 2023 EXA Infrastructure
Exa Infrastructure recently announced that former Vodafone chief executive Nick Read will lead the business with immediate effect. Read, appointed as chairman of Exa Infrastructure in June, will replace Martijn Blanken as chief executive on an interim basis. As part of the transition, Blanket...
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November 14, 2023 Google
Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks a...
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November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies
The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is an...
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November 08, 2023 OVH Group
European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has launched a new data center in Singapore. The company said, “OVHcloud’s newest data center will feature an integrated water cooling system that is built into a vertical rack designed to facilitate cooling at the server level, eliminating the need...
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November 08, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Oracle recently announced a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to support the growth of AI services. Following this agreement, Microsoft will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure and Microsoft Azure AI infrastructure to infuse AI models to power Microsoft Bing conversational...
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November 03, 2023 Google
Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said,...
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November 02, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed its plans to construct a new data center campus on a 347-acre property on Huffaker Road, east of Fouche Gap Road, outside Rome, Georgia. The Rome Floyd County Development Authority (RFCDA), as well as several local news outlets, announced the $1 billion campus outside the...
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November 02, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has finalized an investment partnership with DigitalBridge and a consortium of investors led by MEAG and Infranity for some of its European data center assets. The collaboration between both companies consists of six data center facilities across Europe, valued at around €2.5...
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November 01, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft revealed in an update that it has launched its newest Israeli Azure cloud region. The company noted in a now-deleted update, “We are launching our newest data center region in Israel. The new Israel Central data center region includes Azure availability zones, which offer you additional...
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November 01, 2023 Vodafone
Vodafone has confirmed the sale of its Spanish business to UK investment firm Zegona for $5.3 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Vodafone will get about €4.1 billion in cash and up to €0.9bn in the Redeemable Preference Shares. Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone, said,...
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November 01, 2023 DataBank
US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet. It...
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October 30, 2023 Google
Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...
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October 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure
A Microsoft data center experienced a two-hour outage as its electrical distribution system failed when the company attempted to swap from utility power to its backup generators. Microsoft noted in a newly published report that a power issue impacted some customers in a single Availability Zone...
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October 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Tech giant Microsoft has reportedly canceled plans for a data center in Prague in the Czech Republic due to "complex bureaucracy and long wait times for decisions." An E15 source noted, "A certain small hope is still alive, but rather it is wishful thinking of the managers of the domestic branch...
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October 24, 2023 Telehouse
Data center provider Telehouse International Corporation together with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Metrology Institute has launched a time-as-a-time service offering called NPLTime Certified. This service functions to provide businesses with a synchronized time...
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October 23, 2023 London
Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...
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October 23, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty joint venture Digital Connexion has named CB Velayuthan as its new CEO and he has taken over leadership of Brookfield/Digital/Reliance Jio joint venture previously known as BAM Digital Realty. Velayuthan said to the media, “India is one of the most dynamic markets in our industry...
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October 20, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Shizen Energy Inc. announced its latest 20-year virtual VPPA with Microsoft to supply renewable energy from a 25MWac solar farm in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. This agreement between both companies marks Microsoft’s first PPA in Japan. Sizen is also constructing a solar farm, which will...
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October 20, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently revealed plans to build a team dedicated to researching data center automation and robotics. The tech giant has also posted a job listing for a hardware automation team manager specializing in robotics. The job listing states, "As the Team Manager - Hardware Robotics, for our...
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October 19, 2023 Microsoft Azure
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alleges that tech giant Microsoft owes the US government about $28.9 billion in taxes, penalties, and interest. However, Microsoft has denied these charges and intents to "vigorously contest" them. Microsoft revealed in an SEC filing that it received a Notice of...
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