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AWS to build new data centers at energy park in Ireland

Amazon has revealed plans to develop data centers at a renewable energy business park in County Offaly, Ireland.AWS will become the first business to develop at the Bord na Móna Eco Energy Park in County Offaly, where it will leverage the energy produced by Bord na Móna's renewable development...

May 01, 2024

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Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore

Colocation firm Equinix has signed long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Singapore fromSembcorp Industries. Following the agreements, Sembcorp Power will supply a maximum capacity of 75MWp from its solar assets and 30MW from its gas-power generation portfoli...

April 29, 2024

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AWS on track for annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set for an annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion as its first quarter has seen revenue of $25 billion, representing Year-on-Year (YoY) revenue growth of 17.2 percent, up from 13.2 percent in Q4 of 2023.CEO Andy Jassy told investors during the earnings call: "...

April 29, 2024

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Google announces new data center campus in Indiana

Google this week revealed plans to expand its footprint in Indiana with a $2 billion data center in Fort Wayne. It also announced a collaboration with Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M) to add clean energy to the local grid.“We are thrilled to announce our investment in Fort Wayne as the...

April 26, 2024

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AWS announces new campus in Indiana

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is behind a planned data center in Indiana. The state overnor Eric J. Holcomb this week announced plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center campus in north central Indiana – the largest capital investment announcement in Indiana’s history.“Indi...

April 25, 2024

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Vantage plansnew billion dollar data cener campus in Ireland

Vantage Data Centers has revealed that it will be spending €1 billion on a new data center campus development in Dublin. The campus will be built at Profile Park, Grange Castle, a data center hub nine miles south of Dublin which is already home to the likes of Google, Digital Realty, and Cyru...

April 23, 2024

Vantage Data Centers

Google fires 28 employees following series of internal protests

Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees on Wednesday. This comes after a series of internal protests about labor conditions and the company's contract with the Israeli government and military.The protests were led by the "No Tech For Apartheid" organization. One of the protestors ...

April 22, 2024

Google

Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers

Italian fiber firm Open Fiber (formerly Enel Open Fiber) is planning to move into Edge data centers. Andrea Lazzaroli, operational marketing business market manager at Open Fiber, said the company will be deploying Edge data centers along its network.“With the introduction of Edge data center...

April 18, 2024

Edge Centres

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robu...

April 12, 2024

EdgeConneX

Google invests in new subsea cables

Google has revealed its plans to invest $1 billion in creating two new subsea fiber cable routes between the US and Japan which will be called Proa and Taihei and will be built by Japan's NEC Corp. In a blog post, Google revealed that the investment is in support of Google's Japan Digitizatio...

April 11, 2024

Google

NextDC seeks funding for expansion plans

Australian data center operator NextDC is seeking to raise AU$1.3 billion to fund its expansion plans. The company plans to raise the cash from existing investors via a share issue, which will allow its backers to purchase one new share in the company for every six they already own. NextDC say...

April 11, 2024

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Vantage to unveil new data center campus in Switzerland

Vantage Data Centers this week announced that it will open a second Zurich campus (ZRH2) this summer. This new campus located 30 kilometers north of Zurich’s City Center in Glattfelden, will offer a total of 226,000 square feet (21,000 sqm) of space and 24MW of critical IT capacity. “Zurich is...

April 10, 2024

Vantage Data Centers

Tape Ark migrates tape-based sports broadcast to Google Cloud

Tape Ark has moved a significant collection of tape-based sports video footage to Google Cloud. The cloud ingest of the collection measures over 40 petabytes of video footage. By moving it to the cloud, the broadcaster will be able save time and money on the maintenance of the collection inclu...

April 08, 2024

Google

Edge Centres purchases QuadraNet

Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US colocation and bare metal provider QuadraNet, sucessfully adding 10 facilities to its US footprint. QuadraNet says it has more than 1,000 active customers and facilities located in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Jersey, Rest...

April 08, 2024

Edge Centres

Amazon launches Deadline Cloud

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, a...

April 05, 2024

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Google procures over 1.5GW of cleanenergy in 12 months

Google has signed more than 1.5GW worth of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the last 12 months. The company bought this amoung of clean energy through a new PPA procurement process developed in partnership with LevelTen Energy, which has now been released via the energy broker. “LEAP is hel...

April 04, 2024

Google

Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic

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 st...

April 01, 2024

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Danske Bank signs new cloud agreement with Amazon

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...

March 26, 2024

Amazon AWS

Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at leas...

March 23, 2024

Equinix

Amazon signs new wind PPA in the UK

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...

March 22, 2024

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