In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including 5G, renewable energy, cyber security and data centres.
Here are our highlights:
Facebook has signed a major deal to buy clean wind power from a company in India to help power its offices and data centres in Asia.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/32rzuGu
Telecoms giant Bharti Airtel, which owns mobile operations in Africa as well as India and Sri Lanka, is to split its business into four separate units.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3ty0QGG
Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems is looking at ways to save up to 20,000 tonnes of CO2 per year at two of its data centres.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3arLpbF
The government is to allow taller and wider mobile phone masts to be built across the English countryside to speed up the 5G network rollout.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3gqsyBt
At least 10,000 UK nationals have been approached by fake profiles linked to hostile states, on the professional social network LinkedIn, over the past five years, according to MI5.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3argIDF
Serverfarm has bought its first data centre in its home state of California, acquiring a facility from the T5 Data Centers business for $71 million.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3apOqcI
Tesla is building a data centre in Shanghai to hold all the data of its Chinese customers in their own country, to comply with Chinese cyber security law.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3avsH2Y
Amazon has announced nine new “utility-scale” wind and solar energy projects in North America and Europe. The power generated will help it power its offices, depots, stores and AWS data centres internationally with certified renewable energy.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3avsVak
Encrypted-messaging app Signal says it has found flaws in software used by cyber-security company Cellebrite.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3gFxQsW
Nautilus Data Technologies has finally commissioned its first floating data centre at the Port of Stockton in California, using recycled river water.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3guqjNL