Green Revolution - How data centres are answering to the global climate emergency
In the face of the global climate emergency and the European energy crisis, data centres are under increasing pressure to reduce their carbon footprint and enh...
Microsoft has bought 84.4 hectares in the Centrovía industrial estate in La Muela, near the city of Zaragoza, to develop a new data centre. According to local newspaper Heraldo de Aragón, the cloud computing hyperscaler has paid around €14 million for the land. The change in ownership of ...
December 06
Northern Data Group company Taiga Cloud has released plans to invest €330 million (US$361.5 million) to expand its generative AI cloud platform. The investment will see the deployment of 384 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cray XD supercomputer cabinets equipped with 8,200 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. The infrastructure, to be deployed in early 2024, has been designe...
December 06
The European Commission is actively working on its Digital Decade 2030 strategy, known as the Digital Compass, aiming to accelerate the digital transformation of Member States. A primary focus is on enhancing digital connectivity, with specific targets, such as achieving 100 Mbps services by 2025 and ensuring gigabit coverage for all EU households by 2030. Progress in C...
December 06
KEVLINX, an emerging pan-European data centre operator, has appointed Eric Boonstra as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Boonstra, an industry veteran with extensive experience in the European data centre sector, previously managed the EMEA business for Iron Mountain Data Centers. This development follows KEVLINX's recent success in securing investments from Macquarie...
December 06
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