DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Europe, Telefonica
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
-
Telefónica and Google Cloud partner for Spanish sovereign cloud
And other sovereign cloud news
-
EU unveils $86m EURO-3C project to build ‘federated telecom Edge cloud’
BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica join latest continental sovereignty effort
-
Europe’s digital sovereignty dead on arrival without regulatory overhaul, telecom CEOs warn
From ‘hedgehog day’ to digital decline, Eutelsat, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica CEOs slam EU’s regulatory malaise
-
Nokia deploys Edge network solutions for Telefónica
The Edge node project is poised to power essential digital services in healthcare, education, industry & government
-
Cities across Europe line up to host EU's AI 'gigafactories'
Bids come in from all around the continent as deadline passes
-
EU-backed Exigence consortium to tackle telco sector's carbon footprint
Will focus on mitigating carbon emissions of 6G systems
-
Keppel partner Aermont acquires Spanish data center firm Nabiax
Acquires company from Asterion and Telefónica
-
Final bids arrive for Spanish data center operator Nabiax - report
Keppel-linked Aermont reportedly highest bidder for Asterion & Telefónica-owned firm
-
Goldman Sachs, Wren House, and Igneo make shortlist to acquire Nabiax - report
Spanish operator could sell for $1bn
-
Oracle to invest $1bn in AI and cloud computing in Spain
Will open a third cloud region in Madrid with Telefónica España
-
Virgin Media O2 to cut 2,000 jobs by end of year
Becomes the latest UK telco to announce significant job cuts
-
Telefónica piloting AWS Wavelength Zone in Madrid, Spain
Company using 5G Edge compute to improve streaming of volleyball competition
-
Telefónica issues €1 billion green bond
Money to help deploy more energy efficient technology
-
Telefónica on course for 2024 copper switch-off
The Spanish telco switched off around 800 copper exchanges during 2022
-
Telefónica brings its copper to fiber migration target forward
Full switchover has been moved forward to April 2024, as opposed to 2025
-
European telco providers make push for Big Tech firms to share network costs
Operators say that big tech firms such as Google and Meta should stump some of the cost for building network infrastructure
-
Google launches new Spanish cloud region in Madrid
First cloud hyperscaler to launch Spanish region, second GCP region opened this week
-
Telefónica issues €1 billion sustainable senior bond
Takes telco's total sustainable funding to more than €4 billion
-
MWC: Meta asks for better networks to support the metaverse
Zuckerberg says Meta can't do it alone
-
Oracle partners with Telefónica for Madrid cloud region in Spain
Spanish telco to sell Oracle's services to its customers, cloud company to place OCI infrastructure in Telefónica facilities
-
Telefónica confirms sale of four data centers to Asterion Industrial Partners
Spanish telco officially announces deal first rumored in February
-
Report: Telefónica considers selling 25 data centers for $669 million
El Confidencial reports that the deal could close in the next few weeks
-
-
Vertiv to help Telefonica optimize its energy use
Network operator signs up for Energy-Savings-as-a-Service (ESaaS) for the next 10 years
-
Telefónica Deutschland extends data center deal with BT
Hoping to use the additional infrastructure to push forward virtualization efforts