Microsoft is reportedly pulling the plug on additional data centre projects, with planned sites in Indonesia and Australia now joining a string of cancellations across the US, UK, and Europe, signalling a possible rethink of its AI strategy.

Equinix has added Harmeen Mehta as its new chief digital and innovation officer.

The iliad Group has finalised its multi-billion dollar partnership with private equity firm InfraVia that looks to position its data centre subsidiary OpCore as a major European hyperscale platform.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled 16 potential federal locations primed for data centre development.

This week Nokia’s new president and CEO, Justin Hotard, took the helm of the technology giant bringing expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and data centre technologies from his role at Intel.

AirTrunk is securing a US$1.7 billion (SG$2.2 billion) green loan to fund an 80.2MW data centre in Singapore—yet no one in the industry seems to know where this new facility will be located.

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