Google plans "connectivity hub" in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Will be the first of four hubs in Africa
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Vodacom to migrate data assets to Google Cloud
Pan-African telco will move its data to the cloud platform
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Equinix's MainOne acquires Equiano capacity
Will fortify the operator's network after suffering outages in March last year
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Telecom Namibia secures Equiano subsea cable capacity from Sparkle
Comes after West Africa subsea cable outages
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Google to build first subsea cable connecting Africa and Australia
Features terrestrial path to Kenya
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Google launches first African cloud region in Johannesburg, South Africa
Company launches service years after AWS, Azure, et al entered South Africa
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Google's Equiano cable branch to Saint Helena activated
Island is connected via fiber optic cable for the first time
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Paratus Group activates Namibian branch of Equiano cable
Another branch of Equiano goes live
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Google to open first Japan data center in 2023
Pichai announces it on a visit to the country
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Google plans first African cloud region as part of $1bn African pledge
It follows recent investment in its Equiano subsea cable
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Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable
Equiano is expected to create 1.6 million jobs
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Google to open cloud region in Cape Town, South Africa
GCP region to be based in ADC facility, which set to open in 2023
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Google’s Equiano cable lands in Togo
Third cable to land in West African country
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Paratus completes work on Equiano cable landing station in Namibia
Landing station complete as country prepares for its second subsea cable
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Teraco breaks ground on 38MW Johannesburg data center
The largest data center in Africa
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Alphabet's Loon balloons up and floating over Kenya
Internet-by-balloon service gets its first commercial outing
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GCP outage: MainOne leaked Google, CloudFlare IP routes to China Telecom
All involved say the incident was accidental
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Google opens Finnish cloud region, buys more land in the Netherlands
Sea water-cooled Hamina data center gets an upgrade
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Google plans €150m Dublin data center expansion
Bringing its total investment in Ireland to €1bn
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SAP opens Saudi Arabia's first public cloud data center
As part of its four-year $76m investment plan
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Google Cloud continues to grow, is coming to Saudi Arabia
Now a billion dollar a quarter business
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Google opens third Dutch cloud data center, will expand Eemshaven facility
Dutch Sandwich company adds another layer
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Google Cloud opens regions in Germany, Brazil
Each country gets three data centers for redundancy
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Google Cloud opens London region
And we talk to the guy whose job it is to keep Google online
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Google signs 10 year PPA with Netherlands’ largest solar farm
Planning to use the electricity to power new €600m data center
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Google to receive power from Norway's largest wind farm in September
The company signed a PPA with Tellenes Wind Farm last year
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Google announces three new cloud regions: California, Montreal and the Netherlands
Each region gets at least three data centers