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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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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region.

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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

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We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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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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AMD to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for $2B

TechCrunch

AMD is in the chip business, and a big part of that these days involves operating in data centers at an enormous scale. AMD announced today that it intends to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for approximately $1.9 Jain will join the data center solutions group at AMD when the deal closes.

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

TechCrunch

Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs , and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Later, the companies jointly deployed 160 megawatts of two-phase immersion-cooled data centers.

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Turkcell Cloud: Bringing sovereign cloud to Turkey’s regulated industries

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Now Turkey’s largest cloud services and data center provider is working to bring enterprises throughout the country a new level of data protection and peace of mind. We also took the opportunity to see where he believes the demand for data sovereignty lies today and how he sees the market for sovereign cloud services evolving.

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

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Technology has quickly become a top priority for businesses across every industry. And as the demand for tech talent grows in industries beyond tech, salaries are on the rise in fields such as consulting, finance, hospitality, and more. So much so that IT roles are no longer just the purview of the IT department.

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