hyperscale
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Bernard Looney, former CEO of oil and gas giant BP has joined sustainable data centre startup Prometheus Hyperscale as chair of its Board of Directors. -
Microsoft has hit back at Google Cloud's claims that its licensing terms “restrict” customers from moving to competitors, claiming the hyperscale rival is secretly funding a group trying to discredit the company.
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Investment firm KKR has formed a partnership with power generation investors Energy Capital Partners (ECP) to create a $50 billion fund to invest in digital infrastructure opportunities aimed at supporting AI and cloud workloads.
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Telecom Italia’s Sparkle has expanded its agreement with media delivery company Mainstreaming to support distribution of video content.
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Google’s 2024 environment report revealed that the tech giant’s green house gas (GHG) emissions rose by 13% year over year in 2023, while scope 2 emissions rose by 37%.
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APAC-focused hyperscale data centre operator AirTrunk will expand its MEL1 campus in Melbourne, according to CEO Robin Khuda
Forthcoming events
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Three Chinese operators including China Unicom have deployed Huawei’s 5G MetaAAU solution in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Xiamen.
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PCCW Global has adopted the culture of Console Connect, the platform it acquired in 2017, CEO Marc Halbfinger tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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CEO Andrew Kwok teases Alan Burkitt-Gray with promises of a significant announcement about the company’s digitisation ‘in the coming quarter’
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The cloud units of Alibaba and Baidu have been summoned by authorities in China to discuss fraud and cybersecurity.
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CityFibre has teamed with Ciena to successfully deploy its first 800GBpbs backbone wavelength that will reach up to eight million homes in the UK.
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited achieved a 9.5% return for its investors in the first nine months of the year, exceeding its stated target by 0.5%.
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A European team of scientists have bounced a LoRa (long-range) message off of the moon for the first time.
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The Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has turned to Zella DC to launch a new edge data centre solution in the market, DX edge.
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Telecom Egypt has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme to maximise its capacity along the Mediterranean segment of Telecom Egypt’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable system.
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KKR is among a few companies contemplating bidding for data centre company Global Switch Holdings.
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The utilities regulator in Ireland has issued new rules on data centre grid connections, stating that if it takes no action there could be "rolling blackouts".
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The KKR-backed Global Technical Realty (GTR) has appointed Neil Grocock as its director of operations and construction.
