Oracle has announced that it'll invest $1 billion in Madrid to expand its data centre presence in the region. It is pitching itself as a solution for the financial sector which thrives in Madrid.
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AWS has announced it'll invest €8.8 billion in Frankfurt, Germany. It will help to boost Germany's GDP and provide thousands of full-time-equivalent jobs in the local area, boosting businesses.
Microsoft is reportedly planning to invest €6.69 billion in Aragon, Spain, to build a new data centre hub. Microsoft has filed a permit to build the site but hasn't confirmed this yet.
Google has announced that it'll invest $2 billion building a data centre and establishing a cloud region in Malaysia. The investment could create 26,500 jobs in the area and boost GDP.
Amazon has announced a new AWS Region based in Hyderabad, India. The company will plough $4.4 billion into the project over the next eight years, supporting 48,000 full-time external jobs annually.
Microsoft has launched a new data centre in Qatar. The company said it will help the country diversify its economy. It will create 36,000 new jobs and inject $18 billion in the country's economy.
Meta is temporarily suspending its plans to build a data centre in the Netherlands after politicians asked the Prime Minister to pause the project over concerns they had around energy supplies.
Microsoft has announced #DigitalLeapDenmark, a plan that includes building a renewable data centre in the country and providing 200,000 jobs and job training to all ages by the year 2024.
The latest in its renewable energy investments sees Microsoft partner with First Solar to power its two upcoming Azure data centers in Arizona. The 150MW solar plant is set to be operational in 2021.
Microsoft has announced that it will be building two new data centers in Norway. These will power the company's cloud experiences for businesses in the region, starting late next year.
Microsoft is forging ahead with Project Natick in a bid to create a self-sustaining undersea data centre capable of working on its own for five years by dropping one off the coast of Scotland.
Situated near the Norwegian town of Ballangen and within the freezing Arctic Circle, Kolos plans on becoming the world's largest data centre that will also be completely powered by renewable energy.
