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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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Qualcomm has unveiled a drone platform that offers 5G and AI capabilities in a bid to boost the development of commercial, enterprise and industrial drones.
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Kenyan operator Safaricom has teamed up with Nokia, UNICEF, and the country’s ministries of education and ICT to connect close to 90 primary schools serving 33,000 pupils to the internet in rural and informal urban settlements.
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Neos Networks has completed its local full fibre network project in Perth, Scotland, ahead of schedule.
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BT Group has named Adam Crozier as its new chairman from 1 December, succeeding Jan du Plessis.
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Veon has added a new face to its leadership line-up after appointing Michael Schulz to the role of group chief people officer.
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EdgeConneX has agreed to acquire Israel-based Global Data Center (GDC), in a deal that includes underground facilities in Herzliya and Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.
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Lendlease has confirmed its first data centre in Japan, a facility that it said will be "one of the largest of its scale" in the country.
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Vodafone Idea saw revenue fall by 4.7% quarter-on-quarter to INR91.5 billion (€1 billion) in the three months to the end of June.
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United Group has struck a deal to purchase Greek operator Wind Hellas from Crystal Almond Holdings for an undisclosed fee.
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Cloud service provider Civo has launched Civo Academy, a free, full Kubernetes learning programme.
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Latvian telco Tet has opened its sixth data centre in capital Riga, as it plans to grow its data centre business by 15% per year.
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British satellite operator Inmarsat is launching a "major upgrade" to its L-band services, which it said would offer faster speeds, and bring new opportunities in industrial IoT and maritime services.
