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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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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

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Ken Kremer, chief technical officer at Involta, points out that the company’s inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report reflects its commitment to set an example for the IT industry. One example includes the use of closed-loop, water-free, and refrigerant-based cooling systems in all of the company’s data centers.

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Colocation: The Benefits of Cost-Effective Data Centers

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With businesses planning and budgeting for their Information Technology (IT) needs for 2021, deciding on whether to build or expand their own data centers may come into play. There are significant expenses associated with a data center facility, which we’ll discuss below. What Is a Colocation Data Center?

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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. Data center of the future: We’re actively working to leverage technology and innovation to design data centers that reduce resource consumption.

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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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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

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After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. He went with cloud provider Wasabi for those storage needs. “We

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