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GOOGLE TO CREATE CLOUD DATA CENTRE REGION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Google has announced its intent to establish a Google Cloud region in South Africa.

The first on the continent, it will be joining Google Cloud’s global network of 35 cloud regions.

The cloud region will bring Google’s services closer to its local customers, enabling them to innovate and securely deliver faster, more reliable experiences to their own customers, helping to accelerate their growth.

According to research by AlphaBeta Economics for Google Cloud, the South Africa cloud region will contribute more than a cumulative US$2.1bn to the country’s GDP and will support the creation of more than 40,000 jobs by 2030.

EDITOR'S CHOICE

BY THE NUMBERS

EDGECONNEX GAINS US$150MN IN

SUSTAINABILITY-LINKED FINANCING

EdgeConneX has secured US$150mn in sustainability-linked financing for Latin America, which is designed to be used as a financing platform for the company’s future activity in Chile and Colombia.

KYNDRYL AND TERADATA ANNOUNCE

A STRATEGIC GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

Together, the two companies will help customers apply AI and data modernisation techniques across their environments.

KHAZNA DATA CENTRES BEGINS

CONSTRUCTION ON TWO NEW SITES IN DUBAI

The two facilities currently in development, DXB2 and DXB3, are located in Dubai Design District and Ibn Battuta. The DXB3 facility will be an extension of an existing facility 73% transferred to Khazna following the strategic partnership between G42 and e&.

Schneider Electric’s sustainability research paper – Sustainability at the Edge – revealed a stark disconnect between intent and action, indicating that, worryingly, most of the industry is still in the beginning stages of the sustainability journey.

73%

of data centres rank sustainability as their second-most important business priority

33%

of data centres have created a strategic sustainability plan

 META Meta is continuing to grow its presence in Utah, with a new expansion of its Eagle Mountain data centre bringing the company’s investment to US$1.5bn.

 ORACLE NETSUITE In the past year, NetSuite has opened 11 data centres in five new cities, including Amsterdam, Newport, Osaka, San Jose, and Tokyo.

 GOOGLE’S DATA

CENTRES

The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America has filed two labour complaints against Google, claiming that data centre staff are being discriminated against.

 DATA CENTRES’

SUSTAINABILITY DISCONNECT

Schneider’s recent sustainability report revealed there was a clear ‘perceptionversus-reality’ dilemma across much of the industry, in terms of companies’ perceived progress towards sustainability.