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Egypt launched the first government data center

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It is a unified national center for disaster recovery data that localizes the use of artificial intelligence technology in the government sector and provides all accurate data to government agencies.

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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. Sovereignty, ownership, and governance are big issues for local markets like Saudi, which want things in country and want things accessible,” he said. Microsoft already has said it would invest $2.1

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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. These include numerous government ministries and agencies that serve citizens of the Netherlands.

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A Wake-Up Call For Sustainable AI Data Centers

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But the brilliant gleam of that potential is preventing us from clearly seeing a huge concern — we may not have enough electricity to power the growing number of AI-focused data centers. But renewable energy isn’t a great fit for data centers, which need a consistent power source to stay running.

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TikTok pledges €12B European investment over 10 years as work on Norwegian data center begins

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TikTok says it will spend €12 billion as part of an ongoing push to ingratiate itself with European regulators, with the company beginning work on its previously-announced Norwegian data center.

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

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The road other is paved with disciplined IT and business governance. Consider today’s IT architecture world: on premises, outsourced data center, public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, the edge. The answer lies in building a system of overall guardrails – governance, if you will – of the entire enterprise. State actors.

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Data governance startup Immuta lands $100M to pursue acquisitions

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Carroll led data fusion and analytics programs and advised the U.S. government on data management and analytics issues at CSC. “I quickly realized the power of data and the ways that governing large amounts of critical information can better streamline operations of all kinds,” he added.