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Cranfield University has taken a decisive step by joining the European Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation. This exclusive group is dedicated to ushering in a new era of eco-friendly flying, focusing on hydrogen and electric-powered aircraft, aiming to drastically cut the aviation industry’s current 3% contribution to global warming.
 

A Lone UK University with a Mission

 
Standing as the sole UK university in the Alliance, Cranfield is putting its weight behind a massive transformation in air travel. The university is no stranger to aviation, born as the College of Aeronautics in 1946, and growing with its own airport and a history steeped in aerospace success. Now, it’s channelling decades of expertise into arguably the most pressing issue of modern times: climate…

European cloud-services provider OVHcloud plans to launch a possible initial public offering as soon as Monday that could value the business at more than $4.7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Based in Roubaix, France, OVHcloud rents computing, storage and networking capability to users, overseeing a network of dozens of data centers across North America, Europe, Singapore and Australia. It also operates its own fiber-optic network globally that the company claims gives it a competitive edge.

A major fire has destroyed a data center of web hosting provider OVH in Strasbourg, France, while severely crippling another, taking many services offline.

News of the catastrophic incident was confirmed by OVH CEO Octave Klaba on Twitter, with a statement on the company’s website adding, “We are currently facing a major incident in our DataCenter of Strasbourg with a fire declared in the building SBG2. Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire in SBG2. The whole site has been isolated, which impacts all our services on SBG1, SBG2, SBG3 and SBG4.”

A major fire has destroyed a data center of web hosting provider OVH in Strasbourg, France, while severely crippling another, taking many services offline.

News of the catastrophic incident was confirmed by OVH CEO Octave Klaba on Twitter, with a statement on the company’s website adding, “We are currently facing a major incident in our DataCenter of Strasbourg with a fire declared in the building SBG2. Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire in SBG2. The whole site has been isolated, which impacts all our services on SBG1, SBG2, SBG3 and SBG4.”

German media behemoth ProSiebenSat.1 has announced it will sell its web hosting division to Italian cloud service provider WIIT for an estimated €50 million (around $59 million/AU$82 million/£46 million).

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