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The Green Building Initiative has launched a first-of-its-kind sustainability certification for entire data center campuses. Co-developed with Compass Datacenters, the Green Globes Data Center Campus Certification simplifies the environmental evaluation of multiple mission-critical buildings. It emphasizes operational efficiency, resilience, and scalable green practices. With rising digital demand and environmental scrutiny, this initiative sets a new standard for certifying sustainable infrastructure at the scale today’s data economy demands.

GoTo Group has completed a major cloud migration, moving over 1,000 microservices to Tencent Cloud’s Jakarta data center in a live switchover that lasted under five hours. The move supports Indonesia’s data sovereignty goals and strengthens GoTo’s infrastructure as demand for ride-hailing and delivery services surges. The complex migration included ten database types and marks a deeper collaboration between the Indonesian tech giant and Tencent.

IBM’s cloud platform suffered a second major outage in under 48 hours, again locking out users from managing services or accessing support. Security researchers discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-2502) in IBM’s QRadar tools that exposed stored passwords in config files. With no disclosed root cause and patching now urgent, customers face operational risk and lingering doubts about platform resilience.

Investors plan to inject €100B into Europe’s data center sector by 2030, yet the industry faces critical bottlenecks—chief among them, limited access to clean energy, workforce shortages, and regulatory complexity. Despite sourcing 94% of its energy renewably, the industry warns rising AI demands could outpace infrastructure. Leaders urge EU action to prevent missed growth targets, even as investment interest remains strong across core and emerging markets.

Simone Severini, who helped build AWS’s quantum program, has joined Google as a Distinguished Engineer. Severini blends scientific insight with market pragmatism and now directs his attention toward exploring broader computing horizons. While quantum remains nascent, he maintains its real promise lies not in speed, but in solving intractable problems—like simulating ammonia—once thought to exceed even galactic-scale computing limits.