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Amazon Plans 14,000 More Job Cuts

Amazon is gearing up to lay off as many as 14,000 white-collar workers, with cuts starting as soon as next Tuesday. Jobs at cloud division Amazon Web Services are among those at risk, along with retail, Prime Video, and human resources units.The cuts follow layoffs at AWS last July, which impa...

January 24, 2026

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Microsoft Plans $400m Data Center in Castroville, Texas

Microsoft is planning to invest $400 million in a data center project in Castroville, Texas. Dubbed SAT 82, the data center will be located at 2580 Farm to Market Road, 471 N in Castroville, a town to the west of San Antonio. The data center will span 195,670 sq ft (18,178 sqm) across one sto...

January 08, 2026

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AWS Plans Data Center in Covington, Georgia

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning a data center in Covington, just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.The company has made a $100 million agreement with the city to construct a water treatment and cooling facility to support the data center.“This new project is expected to generate significant ne...

January 03, 2026

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AWS Gets Greenlight for Three Data Centers in Dublin

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has received planning permission for three data centers in north Dublin, Ireland. The greenlight, awarded by planning appeals body An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP), comes three years after the application was first filed by Amazon affiliate Universal Developers LLC.The dat...

January 03, 2026

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Microsoft Signs Two PPAs with Iberdrola in Spain

Microsoft has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Iberdrola in Spain representing 150MW of contracted capacity. The power is tied to two onshore wind power projects in the country, the 94MW Iglesias Wind Farm, in Burgos, Castilla y León and the 101MW El Escudo Wind Farm, in Cantabr...

December 22, 2025

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Microsoft to Purchase CO2 Removal Credits from InPlanet

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal with Brazilian enhanced rock weathering (ERW) firm InPlanet for more than 28,500 tons of carbon credits. The removals will be generated through InPlanet’s ERW program in Brazil, which is the largest in the country, spanning more than 12,000 hectares o...

December 20, 2025

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NTT Gains Council Approval for 482MW Data Center Campus in Nierstein, Germany

NTT is moving forward with a large data center campus outside Frankfurt, Germany.“Great news for our FRA6 data center campus in Nierstein: The city council has unanimously approved the development plan, an important milestone for our project,” the company said on LinkedIn over the weekend. “Th...

December 15, 2025

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Empyrion Eyes 200MW Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital is expanding into Malaysia, with the company this week announcing plans for a 200MW campus in Johor. Located in Nusajaya within the SiLC Industrial Cluster of Johor, the 34.9-acre MY1 campus is set to feature five 40MW buildings, with the first phase ener...

December 13, 2025

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AWS to Invest $7bn in Data Centers in Hyderabad, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed an agreement with the Government of Telangana to significantly expand its data center footprint in the Indian state. AWS will invest $7 billion in its cloud infrastructure in Hyderabad over the next 14 years.A. Revanth Reddy, Telangana's Chief Minister, sai...

December 12, 2025

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Microsoft Signs 3.6 Million Ton Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal with low-carbon fuel firm Beaver Lake Renewable Energy for 3.6 million tons of carbon removal units (CRU) over a 12-year period. The carbon removal units will be delivered from the company’s Beaver Lake biomethanol plant near Pineville, Louisiana, whi...

December 10, 2025

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Microsoft Plans $17.5bn AI Infrastructure Investment in India

Microsoft revealed today that it would be spending $17.5 billion on AI infrastructure in India during the next four years starting in 2026, as well as a $5.42bn pledge to Canada in the next two years. A post on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said: "Thank you, PM Narendra Modi, for an inspiri...

December 09, 2025

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NTT Signs 130MW of Capacity Leases

NTT this week announced agreements between its Global Data Center business and unnamed “leading hyperscale cloud providers,” leasing space across its campuses in Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, and Virginia.“These agreements reflect the trust our clients place in NTT Global Data Centers to deliver t...

December 06, 2025

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AWS and Google Cloud Partner on Multicloud Networking

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud are teaming up on a multicloud networking solution. Rob Enns, and AWS' VP of network services, Robert Kennedy, the two aim to help create a "more open" cloud environment wherein Google and AWS can connect with one another in a "simplified manner."Acco...

December 05, 2025

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BlackRock Brings Aladdin Investment Platform to AWS

Investment management company BlackRock is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring its Asset, Liability, Debt, and Derivative Investment Network (Aladdin) platform to the cloud. “Our Aladdin clients are seeking open, flexible platforms that can adapt to their operating models and sc...

December 03, 2025

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Amazon Announces $15bn Data Center & AI Investment Plan

Amazon is to invest $15 billion in data center & AI infrastructure in Indiana. This is in addition to the $11 billion investment announced last year in St. Joseph County. The company said it aims to add 2.4GW of capacity in the region, expanding to new sites in the Hoosier State.“These fac...

November 28, 2025

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Penzance Secures AWS as Tenant for Virginia Facility

Real estate firm Penzance this week announced that Amazon will lease the 45MW, 240,000 sq ft (22,296 sqm) facility, located at 4151 Autopark Circle in Chantilly. Construction work has started and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027. The facility will utilize air-cooled system...

November 24, 2025

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ESR Partners with Wide Creek for 80MW Incheon Facility

APAC real estate firm ESR this week said it was developing an 80MW data center in South Korea, in partnership with Seoul-based Wide Creek Asset Management. The facility is set to be leased to APAC data center operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG).Stuart Gibson, co-founder and co-CEO, ESR, sai...

November 21, 2025

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AWS and Humain Expand Partnership

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Saudi Arabia's Humain have expanded their partnership to include the deployment of some 150,000 AI chips. The AI chips will include Nvidia GB300s and AWS' Trainium AI chips, and will be used for both training and inference workloads. In addition to the deployment,...

November 20, 2025

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Amazon’s Kuiper Satellite Venture Rebrands to Amazon Leo

Amazon has rebranded its satellite venture from Project Kuiper to simply Amazon Leo. The company currently has more than 150 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in orbit, with several thousand more planned in the coming years.“Like most early Amazon projects, the program needed a code name, and t...

November 15, 2025

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Microsoft Receives Approval for Data Center Campuses in Aragón, Spain

Microsoft has received the initial approval for its planned data center campuses in the Aragón region in Spain, dubbed MSFT Region, that will see the development of three campuses in La Muela, Villamayor de Gállego, and Zaragoza, as well as their interconnection via fiber optics.The project is...

November 12, 2025

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