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Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in S...

November 14, 2024

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Aermont acquires Spanish data center firm Nabiax

Keppel-linked European asset management company Aermont is to acquire Spanish data center operator Nabiax. Asterion Industrial Partners this week announced an agreement to sell Nabiax to a fund managed by Aermont. The transaction includes the sale of Telefónica's 20 percent stake in the compan...

November 12, 2024

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Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

Equinix this week officially opened Salalah in partnership with local telco Omantel with a facility known as SN1. This facility is to be commercially and operationally managed in full by Equinix as a carrier-neutral and open-access Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.Kame...

November 08, 2024

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Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was ...

November 07, 2024

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Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...

November 05, 2024

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Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 s...

November 02, 2024

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Equinix to invest in two data centers in Bangkok, Thailand

Equinix this week announced an intention to invest approximately $500 million in Thailand in phases over the next ten years, including the recent acquisition of land in Bangkok for approximately $34m. The newly acquired land in the Bangna area of Bangkok will be used to establish two Equinix I...

October 30, 2024

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TMF Group selects Orange for hybrid cloud solution

Professional services firm TMF Group which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stac...

October 19, 2024

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Ansys and TSMC to partner with Microsoft for silicon photonic simulations

Ansys and TSMC have teamed up with Microsoft to enhance the simulation and analysis of silicon photonic components. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology is a type of optical communication that speeds up data transfer speeds and is used in data centers and IoT applications.“The ...

October 15, 2024

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Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also com...

October 05, 2024

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Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also comm...

October 03, 2024

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Digital Realty extends credit facility

Digital Realty this week announced that it has amended, extended, and upsized its existing $3.75 billion senior unsecured multi-currency global revolving credit facility to $4.2 billion. The maturity date was extended by three years and total availability was expanded by $450 million which no...

October 03, 2024

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded a colocation contract to Equinix.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Equinix a contract for colocation services for its Homeland Security Enterprise Network.Published on SAM.gov on September 17, the tender called for "power, connectivity and related operations and maintenance," adding that the services wi...

September 25, 2024

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Microsoft signs carbon deal with Arbor

Microsoft has signed a biomass carbon sequestration carbon capture deal with biomass sequestering company Arbor. The company's system uses waste biomass to create power, while also capturing the CO2 it says would have been released into the atmosphere via that biomass decomposing or burning up...

September 21, 2024

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Microsoft signs 20-year, 835MW AI data center PPA to reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant

Microsoft plans to take up 100 percent of a revived Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to faid its AI datacenter plans. If approved by regulators, Constellation hopes to open the 837MW Pennsylvania facility in 2028. 100 percent of the power will go to Microsoft, to match the power used by i...

September 20, 2024

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Equinix becomes one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers after issuing $750m in green bonds

Equinix has now become one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers in the market, issuing $750 million in green bonds across two offerings. The company says it will use the proceeds to advance sustainability initiatives across its business. Equinix said the funding will be towards initiativ...

September 17, 2024

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NTT selected to deploy Private 5G in Brownsville, Texas

NTT Data has been selected by the City of Brownsville in Texas to deploy private 5G wireless connectivity across the city. It will build and manage a turnkey private 5G network with high-speed and low latency. In addition, NTT’s Smart Solutions will be deployed to deliver data analysis, predic...

September 10, 2024

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Microsoft signs rooftop solar PPA in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project. EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

September 05, 2024

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Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India

Microsoft this week announced the signing of a green attribute sale contract of 437.6MW with Indian renewable energy firm ReNew in a deal said to be amongst India's largest corporate renewable agreements. As part of the agreement, ReNew will direct approximately $15 million of revenue from t...

August 29, 2024

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Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake

Residents in Mekagunda, a village near Indian tech hotspot Hyderabad have filed a petition against Microsoft, and 35 other companies and government bodies in Telangana's High Court, alleging that Microsoft has illegally occupied land beyond its property, and is dumping industrial waste into a...

August 25, 2024

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