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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

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One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning.

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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

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Based in Tucson, Arizona, and with more than 240 employees, Involta operates 12 high-performance data centers in Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The company’s compute, networking, and storage offerings encompass a wide range of managed IT services and draw on its 12,000-mile fiber network.

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AES enlists AI to boost its sustainable energy business

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As part of that partnership, Google operates AES’ private cloud platform in its data centers. For example, the company bought Valcour Wind Energy’s six wind farms in New York and also builds and operates solar farms and storage systems in California, Arizona, and several other US states, as well as in Brazil and Argentina.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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It’s a form of rightsizing, trying to balance around cost effectiveness, capability, regulation, and privacy,” says Musser, whose team found it more cost effective to run some workloads on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in the company’s data center than on the cloud.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

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With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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Accelerate Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry

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In response, oil and gas majors are making headway in terms of carbon reporting, net-zero targets, and accountability. Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9% of global emissions.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

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JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. To counteract that, JLL has targeted commercial segments that are experiencing high growth, such as cloud and data center operators, which require lots of square footage. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation