PANZURA SETS THE DATA INDUSTRY

STANDARD FOR GENDER EQUALITY Panzura has one of the only female CEOs in the data management industry , and has built a notably gender-balanced board of directors .

QUINBROOK TO BUILD US $ 1.7BN

‘ SUPERNODE ’ DATA STORAGE PROJECT Quinbrook , a private-equity firm , has announced plans to build a $ 1.7bn Queensland data centre with a 2Gwh battery storage capacity .

VANTAGE SECURES US $ 300MN GREEN LOAN Vantage Data Centres has secured a US $ 300mn green loan for its upcoming VA13 data centre , located in Northern Virginia .

Research , published by Cable . co . uk , has calculated and compiled the average cost of 1GB of mobile data , across 231 different countries . In between spots 1 to 231 , there is a 99,000 % cost difference .

EQUATORIAL GUINEA ( Most expensive )

ISRAEL ( Least expensive )

� DIGITAL REALTY Digital Realty announced that it has reached 1GW of certified sustainable IT capacity – the first data centre operator in the world to successfully do so .

� EDGECONNEX EdgeConneX successfully secured $ 1.7bn in sustainability funding . This funding drive is the latest part of EdgeConneX ' s sustainability strategy , which involves deploying renewable energy solutions and reducing its carbon footprint across its global data centre network .

� META After extensive backlash and months of pauses and uncertainty , Meta has officially cancelled its plans to build its Zeewolde data centre , which would have been the largest data centre in the Netherlands .

� PARALLEL WIRELESS Reports have revealed that Parallel Wireless , an American provider of OpenRAN architecture , has undertaken a mass lay-off , with around half of its employees having been made redundant .

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