Microsoft and G42 data center in Kenya stalled due to lack of power capacity
Data center was first announced in May 2024
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Microsoft to purchase up to 1.8m carbon credits from Rainforest Builder in Sierra Leone
Expected to be delivered over 15 years
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Microsoft on pace for $50bn AI investment in "global south"
Some of which will be spent on AI infrastructure
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Rubicon to supply Microsoft with 2m carbon removal credits from afforestation project in Uganda
First tranche of 18 million credit deal signed last year
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US's Export-Import Bank approves more than $100m in financing guarantees for digitalization in Côte d'Ivoire
Will facilitate construction of data center
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Tarana Wireless and Microsoft to deploy ngFWA broadband to underserved African communities
The company claims its partnership with Microsoft will lower the cost of ngFWA equipment for ISPs in Africa
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Wells Fargo: Amazon Web Services delays data center leases, following Microsoft pullback
But Microsoft has downplayed its own cuts
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Microsoft to invest $300m in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa
Will also launch program to improve young peoples' digital skills
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Microsoft and G42 to build geothermal-powered data center in Kenya
Part of $1 billion investment in East African country
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Microsoft eyes more data centers across EMEA region
Hiring an acquisitions manager to scout potential locations
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Microsoft Azure's March outage in South Africa due to subsea cable cuts
Company lost 3.5 out of four redundancy routes
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Outages spike in West Africa: Subsea cable damage off Ivory coast
WACS and ACE cables said to be impacted
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Microsoft pays for 350,000 tonnes of carbon removal in Kenyan forest
Trees for the Future joins the list of carbon removal projects sponsored by Microsoft
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Microsoft plans data center campus in Centurion, South Africa
Company also breaks ground on new data centers in Brazil
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Vodafone signs $1.5bn deal with Microsoft for cloud, AI, and IoT
Agreement to last 10 years
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MTN throws hat into 5G Standalone ring with Microsoft partnership
Conducts a proof of concept in the South Africa Azure Region
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Viasat partners with Microsoft to expand Internet access across the globe
Set to connect up to 10 million people by the end of 2025
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Microsoft accused of spending hundreds of millions on bribes to win business deals
Whistleblower alleges culture of corruption in Middle East and Africa
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Microsoft adds Availability Zones to South Africa and South Korea Azure regions
Company adds Zones in Johannesburg and Seoul, de-lists Cape Town and others
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Microsoft opens Azure Cloud data centers in South Africa
The cloud giant has opened its first African data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg to make Azure Cloud locally available.
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Microsoft to open its first Egyptian 'edge node'
The deal was announced during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
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Microsoft deploys underwater data center near Orkney
A new test to revolutionize - and submerge - the data center as part of Project Natick
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Microsoft, DoJ submit motions to drop Irish email case
As the CLOUD Act made the lawsuit moot
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Beyond.pl brings Microsoft Azure to Eastern Europe
Becoming the region’s first operator to deploy Azure Stack
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Azerbaijan’s AzInTelecom signs MoU with Microsoft, explores business opportunities
But still a way from a concrete deal
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EU Commission clarifies data protection policy for Microsoft’s Ireland case
To ensure European rules are well understood ahead of US DoJ ruling next year
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DCD>Zettastructure: Microsoft’s Project Olympus goes on sale
First open source servers are available from Wiwynn, ZT Systems
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Sweden’s Vattenfall to supply Microsoft’s Dutch data center with wind energy
Dutch utility Nuon will expand the existing wind farm, with additional electricity powering Microsoft’s Cloud facility