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$340m Portugal-Egypt subsea cable lands major milestone

Medusa Submarine Cable System, the Mediterranean Subsea Infrastructure Operator, and Portugal’s telecommunications player MEO (Altice Portugal) have signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) defining the guidelines for the Medusa landing in Carcavelos, in the municipality of Cascais (Lisbon dis...

June 23

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Portugal’s Start Campus breaks ground on $4bn data centre farm

Portugal’s Start Campus is breaking ground on a €3.5 billion (US$3.75 billion) data centre campus in Sines this week. The Sines 4.0 technology complex, 150 km (93 miles) south of Lisbon, will see in the first phase the deployment of 15MW of capacity, of a total projected 495MW at full build. The first building, dubbed SIN01, will be erected in a nine-hectare area, on...

April 26

João Marques Lima

AWS to open edge zones in 25 countries on 6 continents

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the cloud business arm of e-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), has announced the completion of its first 16 AWS Local Zones in the US and plans to launch new AWS Local Zones in 32 new metropolitan areas in 26 countries around the world. The 16 US locations include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, L...

February 21

João Marques Lima

European Investment Bank to fund $374m Portugal-Egypt subsea cable

AFR-IX Telecom said it is closer to getting approval from the Portuguese State to moor its new subsea cable Medusa Submarine Cable System in Sines and the Greater Lisbon region. The cable is designed to be 8,700Km long and will land at the multi-billion Dollar hyperscale data centre campus Start Campus in Sines with a second location in Carcavelos in the outskirts of the Po...

January 13

João Marques Lima