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Read BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS
BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

August 21, 2025 Amazon AWS

UK telco BT Group has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), signing a new five-year agreement with the cloud provider. The deal builds on BT's ongoing cloud migration to AWS, and aims to help BT move its legacy systems into "modern, customer-centric microservices."“This isn’t...

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Read QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland
QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

August 20, 2025 QTS Data Centers

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good news....

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Read EdgeConneX to Build Data Centers in Chicago and Atlanta
EdgeConneX to Build Data Centers in Chicago and Atlanta

EdgeConneX to Build Data Centers in Chicago and Atlanta

August 20, 2025 EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

Build-to-suit data center company EdgeConneX will set up data centers in Chicago and Atlanta for neocloud Lambda to support hybrid cooling with liquid-to-the-chip direct cooling and air cooling, and join two existing air-cooled facilities across both cities. "Our partnership with Lambda...

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Read Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas
Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

August 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

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Read Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms
Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

August 14, 2025 Equinix

US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of the...

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Read QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

August 13, 2025 QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good...

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Read Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank
Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

August 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri...

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Read AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

August 09, 2025 Amazon AWS

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end of...

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Read Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

August 08, 2025 Amazon AWS

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...

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Read AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access
AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

August 07, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an...

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Read Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania
Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania

Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania

August 06, 2025 T5 Data Centers

Bitfarms, a cryptomining company pivoting to AI and HPC data centers, this week announced its partnership with T5 Data Centers to “advance HPC/AI development” at its Panther Creek campus in the state.The partnership will focus on pre-construction, design, planning, and development approval...

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Read AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari
AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

August 06, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately...

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Read AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate
AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

August 02, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved an annualized revenue run rate of more than $123 billion, CEO Andy Jassy revealed in the company's Q2 2025 earnings call. The cloud unit saw a revenue of $30.9bn for the quarter, up 17.5 percent year over year (YoY) and more than the previous quarter's...

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Read AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement
AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

July 31, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...

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Read Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy
Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

July 28, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut off cloud computing services to India's Nayara Energy, following EU sanctions on the oil refinery company. Nayara revealed it had initiated legal proceedings against Microsoft after the "abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical services," with Nayara claiming that Microsoft...

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Read AT&T Expects Billion-Dollar Tax Windfall
AT&T Expects Billion-Dollar Tax Windfall

AT&T Expects Billion-Dollar Tax Windfall

July 26, 2025 AT&T

AT&T CEO John Stankey views President Donald Trump’s recently passed budget as a financial windfall for the telecommunications space and teased an appetite for more fiber to feed growing market opportunities around its wired and wireless broadband services.“I've not seen the situation where...

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Read Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal
Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

July 24, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing demand...

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Read Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit
Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

July 22, 2025 Equinix

Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...

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Read Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms
Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

July 19, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) have made a commercial agreement that the two say will help "reform licensing terms" for Microsoft software on CISPE member cloud infrastructure. This comes after it was decided that the previously required solution being...

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Read Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada
Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

July 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage said...

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