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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. Chinese competitor Huawei also has invested $400 million in cloud infrastructure for its services in Saudi Arabia. Microsoft already has said it would invest $2.1 billion to launch new cloud areas.

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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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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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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

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The boulder is made from complex infrastructure, network connections, data stores, and devices. 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 task is Sisyphean.

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Thinking outside the cloud: bring cloud agility to your entire infrastructure

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But what if you could take the best principles of cloud and apply them across your entire IT infrastructure? It simplifies operations for on-premises and cloud infrastructures, cutting down the complexity and fragmentation created by disconnected tools and consoles—and the different skill sets needed to work with them.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

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Customer sentiment, evolving corporate values, and government regulation have converged to make sustainability a strategic priority for nearly every business. The combination of Dell Technologies essential infrastructure and Platform Equinix enables you to achieve your digital transformation and sustainability goals side by side.

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Oracle bolsters distributed cloud, AI strategy with new Mexico cloud region

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Oracle has partnered with telecommunications service provider Telmex-Triara to open a second region in Mexico in an effort to keep expanding its data center footprint as it eyes more revenue from AI and generative AI-based workloads. billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure. The first region in Mexico is based at Querétaro.

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