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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April 04, 2024 Sweden
Swedish telco Telia Company has confirmed in a new announcement that the sale of its Danish business unit to local energy and Internet firm Norlys has been finalized for DKK 6.25 billion ($900 million), on a cash and debt-free basis. “The sale of our Danish business marks a significant milestone...
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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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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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March 29, 2024 atNorth
IT services provider Advania and colocation company atNorth have agreed to a deal that will see Advania take extra capacity at atNorth’s ICE03 site in Iceland, a 12MW data center in Akureyri that opened last year. A statement from both companies noted that “The expansion onto the ICE03 campus...
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March 26, 2024 Sweden
Ericsson has announced it will cut 1,200 jobs in its home market of Sweden as a part of cuts announced earlier this year, with the company citing a "challenging mobile networks market in 2024." "In addition to the headcount reduction, the cost-saving initiatives cover various areas such as...
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March 26, 2024 Sweden
Intelsat recently announced that it has signed a new multi-year, multimillion-dollar agreement partnership with Intelsat on its OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation.This deal is valued at up to $500 million over seven years, with a firm commitment of $250m (including a previous $45m deal...
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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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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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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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March 19, 2024 Stockholm
Swedish colocation data center provider Conapto has installed Vertiv Liebert EXL S1, an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system that provides an integrated solution for critical power protection and grid support capabilities. “With the introduction of dynamic grid support, we are empowering...
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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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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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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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March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has acquired Talen Energy’s 960MW Cumulusdata center campus at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. According to the investor presentation, Talen sold the site and assets of Cumulus Data for $650 million. The deal comprises $350 million at close and $300m escrowed,...
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February 29, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Platform.sh, a platform for building, running and scaling web applications, is offering customers a three percent 'greener region discount' when using a data center that consumes electricity that is less than 100gCO₂e/kWh. Customers have a choice of six data center regions across five countries...
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February 27, 2024 Amazon AWS
NTT Docomo has chosen Amazon Web Services to support the commercial deployment of its 5G Open RAN network in Japan. The company will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere), a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN. “Our philosophy at NTT...
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February 27, 2024 Microsoft Azure
A fatal incident has been reported at an electrical substation being built to supply power to a new Microsoft data center in London. Reports have it that a worker was trapped after an incident involving an aerial work platform at the Park Royal, site in Ealing last week, and died of his injuries...
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February 22, 2024 Amazon AWS
Public cloud data backup and recovery provider Clumio has raised $75m in a Series D round of funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Existing investors Index Ventures and Altimeter Capital, as well as new investor NewView Capital also participated in this round of funding. “Few markets are as big as...
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February 21, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently revealed a planned investment of $2.1 billion in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Spain over the next two years. This was revealed via a post on X by Microsoft Brad Smith following a meeting with the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez. "I’m...
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