The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Infrastructure Management, Microsoft
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Microsoft thinks its data centers can last for 25 years, reports strong cloud earnings and lower capex
Extends useful life of facilities as it reports Azure revenue for the first time
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Former Microsoft researcher launches data center robotics startup
Exclaim Robotics secures $4.95m in pre-seed funding to build first bots
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Moody’s predicts $3 trillion global data center investment over five years
The staggering sum is required to keep pace with AI-driven capacity growth
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Microsoft Research details early-stage modular robotics for data centers
Team behind Silica crabs tackles networking maintenance machines
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Microsoft invests in startup recovering rare earth metals from hard drives
Cyclic Materials allows rare earth magnets to be taken out of hard drive before shredding
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Microsoft removes egress fees for moving data between availability zones in same Azure cloud region
Inter-region data transfer fees still apply
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Microsoft puts an end to Azure egress fees
Completing the trifecta
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Study: Only 13% of provisioned CPUs and 20% of memory utilized in cloud computing
Cast AI analysis finds drastic over provisioning
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Orange & Capgemini to finally launch Bleu sovereign cloud service
Work begins to migrate customers for end-of-year launch
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Brazil's TIM will complete its data center shutdown in 2023
Telecoms company progresses with move to the Cloud
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Electrical distribution system failure causes outage at Microsoft data center
West Europe region in the Netherlands goes down after power sag
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Microsoft to create team dedicated to data center automation and robotics
Plus more on Meta's robotic efforts
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HMRC signs £4.4m mainframe deal with Kyndryl
Kyndryl will manage a "proportion" of HMRC's mainframe services
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Microsoft's slow outage recovery in Sydney due to insufficient staff on site
Only three people on site at time of power outage
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Microsoft announces Azure Boost to offload virtualization processes
Company offers DPU-sounding service months after acquiring Fungible
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Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software
Investors stump up $6.5 million for a platform which could let companies to go carbon free 24x7
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Microsoft Azure UK stops accepting new customers for some services, due to supply shortages
Following reports of server shortages across global Microsoft data centers