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Microsoft vows to remove historical carbon footprint by 2050 Microsoft has pledged that within the next 30 years it will remove all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975. While the company has vowed to be carbon negative by 2030, it is going further by aiming to remove its historical carbon footprint completely by 2050. The company also announced a one...

Data Centre 4 days ago

CyrusOne cuts 12 percent of workforce in savings drive Global data centre provider CyrusOne is sacking 55 employees as it seeks to save costs in response to oversupply and dwindling demand in the US market. The Dallas-based company announced the cuts in a statement on Monday and expects the move to provide nearly $11m in savings. Affected employees will receive severance as well as customary...

Cloud 4 days ago

AWS to ask court to block Pentagon’s $10bn cloud contract Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to ask a judge to halt Microsoft from commencing "substantial" work on a lucrative Pentagon cloud contract until its lawsuit challenging the contract's validity is resolved. Microsoft secured the $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) with the US Department of Defense in October 2019, ending a two-year-long procurement process in...