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Microsoft to build data center automation and robotics team

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...

October 20, 2023

Microsoft Azure

IRS, Microsoft disagree over alleged tax debt

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...

October 19, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

An outage at an Equinix data center on Saturday brought DBS and Citibank banking services in Singapore offline. This outage also affected other services in its Asian region including the Philippines, Hong Kong and India as people complained about having issues with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAp...

October 18, 2023

Equinix

UK regulators approves Microsoft's acquisition of $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has finally approved Microsoft's proposed acquisition of famous video games publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. This comes after an initial blockage of the deal over concerns relating to the impact of this acquisition on competition...

October 18, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Web Werks & Iron Mountain acquire 4 acres in Chennai for DC construction

Web Werks and Iron Mountain recently purchased a four-acre parcel of land in the Ambattur area of Chennai, India for the construction of two data center campuses. These parcel will support two buildings called CHE-1 and CHE-2 which will be built to Tier III standards and will support a total ...

October 17, 2023

Iron Mountain

Microsoft plans new DC region in Aragon, Spain

Microsoft recently revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Aragon, in the northeastern region of Spain. The company is yet to share details about this development. However, local press have reported that Microsoft plans to develop three sites around Zaragoza; A 63-acre site in the ...

October 16, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Digital Realty and Dutch college launches demonstration data center to teach students

Digital Realty has partnered with a Dutch vocational college in Amsterdam to launch a new demo data center to teach students data center skills. Students from the Cloud & Infrastructure Technician course opened the demo data center at MBO College Zuidoost this week. Melissa Scholten, senio...

October 13, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft to build data center in Welsh factory

Global technology giant Microsoft revealed plans to develop a new data center campus in Newport Wales. In a post on its website, the company wrote, “Microsoft will be applying for planning permission for a data center in Newport, Wales. We are preparing a planning application for the site in t...

October 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft replaces diesel power with battery energy system at Swedish data center

Microsoft has replaced the criticized diesel backup generators used at a Swedish data center with a battery energy storage system (BESS). The BESS system supplied in June provides 16MWh of storage and black start capability to guarantee instant recovery of the power grid, all without greenhous...

October 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia

Global cloud provider Digital Realty announced its acquisition of a land parcel in Zagreb, Croatia for the construction of a new data center campus as it plans to expand its footprints in Southeast Europe. This plot of land, located close to its existing data center campus can support up to 30...

October 06, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Nvidia, NTT Docomo to launch new GPU-accelerated 5G network

NTT Docomo has partnered with semiconductor company Nvidia to deploy a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan. This partnership will make it the first telco in the world to deploy a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network.A blog post by Nvidia noted that this partnership "enab...

October 04, 2023

NTT

JTowers, NTT Docomo finalize tower transfer ownership

NTT Docomo announced on September 26, 2023, that it has agreed with JTowers on a deal to share its current telecommunication tower infrastructure. This agreement enables an ownership transfer of an additional 1,552 Docomo towers to JTower for 17 billion yen ($114 million). This comes after Doc...

October 04, 2023

NTT

Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft

Carbon Streaming Corporation announced it had signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with biochar carbon removal credits from the Waverly Biochar project in Waverly, Virginia. The company noted that the Biochar project would deliver Microsoft up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal cre...

October 02, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Alligned Reveals New Brownfield Land Acquisition for DC Campus in Ohio

On September 25, 2023, Aligned Data Centers announced the acquisition of a new brownfield land in Perkins Township., Northeast Ohio. The firm purchased the 129-acre parcel to construct a new four-building hyperscale data center campus. Aligned said its NEO-01 data center, the first of the four...

September 28, 2023

Aligned

Microsoft to extend DC footprint to Naas, Ireland

Microsoft recently commenced plans to develop plans for a new Irish data center campus near Jigginstwon in Naas. Following reports by Kildare Nationalist, Microsoft has begun consultations with authorities for the proposed development of one of the two sites marked for DC usage in the Council’...

September 25, 2023

Microsoft Azure

DigitalBridge completes DataBank recapitalization

DigitalBridge Group recently revealed the completion of DataBank's recapitalization. The Group announced that DigitalBridge received an additional funding of $219 million, bringing the total costs of the recapitalization to $2.2 billion. This completed recapitalization will bring about a separ...

September 22, 2023

DataBank

Stack inaugurates a data center in Toronto

Stack Infrastructure has established a data center in Toronto, Canada. This week, the company revealed the dispatch of the first 8MW phase of the 56MW Ontario campus. First Gulf, a Toronto-based developer, collaborated with Stack to execute the initial 8MW data center by refurbishing an existi...

September 22, 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK Infrastructure Completes 56MW Enterprise Toronto Facility Initial Phase

STACK, a leading global developer and operator of data centers and the digital infrastructure partner to the most cutting-edge businesses in the world, announced the completion of the first phase at its flagship campus in Toronto. The first phase of the campus, with a total capacity of 56MW, i...

September 20, 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus

Compass Datacenters has acquired the former Sears headquarters, spanning 197 acres in the Chicago area, for $194 million. As Sears continues to downsize its operations, Compass plans to replace the existing 2.4 million square-foot campus with data centers, reflecting the growing demand for clo...

September 18, 2023

Compass Hoffman Estates

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