Underwater data centre set to make a splash by end of year
Subsea Cloud said its underwater data centres reduce latency by up to 98pc, while reducing power consumption and emissions by 40pc.
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Subsea Cloud said its underwater data centres reduce latency by up to 98pc, while reducing power consumption and emissions by 40pc.
Two of the biggest players in the cloud space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google, are planning to enhance their presence in South Africa.
The government of Poland plans to build what it calls a National Data Centre – or, more accurately, it has published a draft bill on what it hopes will be achieved by embarking on this ambitious project.
Africa Data Centres, Africa’s largest network of interconnected, carrier and cloud-neutral data centre facilities, has received the first disbursement of US$83 million of what could be an up to US$300 million loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).
To meet what it describes as growing demand for cloud services in Asia-Pacific, Google has announced plans to bring three new Google Cloud regions to Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. This is addition to similar plans for Berlin, Dammam, Doha, Mexico, Tel Aviv and Turin announced in July.