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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

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billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Indeed, the kingdom is positioning itself as a global leader in digital technologies ahead of its hosting of the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh. If I go back three years, there was limited cloud adoption in Arab states,” he said.

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Balancing latency and sustainability

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In the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS), 68% of global IT leaders said that the environmental impact of their IT equipment and infrastructure is something they measure and actively try to limit. To make the most of these applications, enterprises need distributed digital infrastructure in locations throughout the world.

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Accelerating digital transformation with sustainable solutions

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Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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Accelerating sustainability to build stronger businesses

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Deploying on a sustainable digital infrastructure foundation that is more distributed, flexible, and interconnected across diverse ecosystems than ever before, is now fundamental for organizations to achieve their climate targets. Depending on location and climate conditions, Equinix’s new data centers are designed to achieve under 1.20

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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

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In the European Union, for instance, legislative efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 50% before 2030 are in an advanced stage. Which begs the question: What is the impact of increasingly distributed IT infrastructure approaches on enterprise sustainability goals — specifically on greenhouse gas emissions metrics?

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

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“The barriers confronting organizations in South Africa that want to achieve carbon neutral status by 2030 are significant. But the requirements, difficult in areas with an already mature sustainable energy infrastructure in place, were overwhelming in sub-Saharan Africa. Singh had a choice.

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Becoming the sustainability partner our customers need

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We know our customers need a trusted digital infrastructure partner to help them meet their sustainability goals, which is why we’ve made it a top priority to become a sustainability leader in the data center industry. In 2022, we were once again an industry leader in this regard. We also reduced our own operational emissions.