hyperscale
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A new data centre operator has launched in the UK with an ambitious plan to open 40 purpose-built AI-focused facilities by 2030.
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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.
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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%.
Forthcoming events
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Digital Edge's first self-build data centre in Osaka, Japan, is to go into service on 4 January.
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Increasing 5G capabilities will bring the annual spending of private cellular networks on hardware and services to almost $12 billion by 2023, a report by Juniper Research has revealed.
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Ericsson has lost market share in China and its overall global sales were down by 1%, the company reported this morning.
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Dataplex Group has a new stakeholder, the Dubai-based DAMAC Group, and is planning a series of greenfield and brownfield development projects across Europe.
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South African telcos Vodacom and MTN have joined Telkom SA’s case against the country’s regulator ICASA over plans to remove temporarily allocated spectrum.
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DE-CIX and Barcelona's Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) have partnered to launch the Global Interconnection Academy, with fully hybrid courses starting in 2022.
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Almost 10 months into its £8 million nationwide edge project across the UK, Pulsant CTO Simon Michie tells Melanie Mingas that things are right on track
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GlobalConnect Carrier is building a new high-capacity freeway between the Nordics and Central Europe that promises virtually unlimited bandwidth. CEO Regina Donato Dahlström tells Melanie Mingas about the developments driving the business case
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As managing director and co-founder of legal firm Trenches Law, which specialises in telecoms and technology, Sharon McDermott’s day is fairly relentless.
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Meet Subspace, the ambitious start-up that aims to optimise the internet for real-time services. Natalie Bannerman speaks to its co-founder and CTO, William King, on how the idea for the business came about, and what it means for telcos and the gaming sector
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Ernie Ortega, CEO of GTT, seeks return the company to profitability post infrastructure sale, as he transforms the business into the new GTT 2.0
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iBasis has revealed that its FraudLock iQ360 solution has blocked 191 million "wangiri" fraud calls in H1 2021.