Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) public cloud computing arm AWS has this week laid bare its intentions to continue expanding its footprint across different markets in North and South America, and Europe. Firstly, the company said it will open an Edge facility in Fortaleza, Brazil. The site will be erected in the capital of Ceará and will be the company’s third Edge asset in the...

The European data centre market is in frank expansion and expected to reach revenues of €14,722 million by the end of 2024. The 46% increase follows the record set in 2020 of €10,063 million, according to research and analysis firm Datacentre Pricing (DCP). Covering 17 European countries, 650 data centre providers and over 1,300 data centre facilities, analysts at th...

Forty-two cloud infrastructure providers, data centre operators and industry organisations have today established the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact to make data centres across Europe 100% green by 2030. The parties have agreed to a Self-Regulatory Initiative, which has been dubbed by the sector as “an historic and unprecedented commitment by an industry to proactively ...