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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

GeekWire

He said he hopes business leaders, nonprofit leaders, community leaders, and political leaders will recognize the consequences of those changes and as they set regional strategy and policy. McIlwain led a campaign against Seattle’s income tax on high wage earners , which has since been overturned by the courts.

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s also the fifth-largest data center market in the nation, with a “low natural disaster risk, inexpensive power, and a competitive colocation and cloud market.” It’s now home to the headquarters of companies such as T-Mobile, Expedia, Nintendo of America, and offices for companies such as Twitter, Zendesk, Facebook, and Google.

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Initiative to axe carbon emissions law could ‘slam the brakes’ on Washington’s climate tech sector

GeekWire

To meet that demand, Amazon, Microsoft and others are building more data centers, which require more energy sources and a robust electrical grid. McKinsey projected that data center power demand in the U.S. Microsoft contractors mixed test slabs of lower-carbon concrete at the site of a new data center in Quincy, Wash.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

AWS data centers in Canada will draw from a regional electricity grid that is 99 percent powered by hydropower. Access to secure, scalable, low-cost AWS infrastructure in Canada allows customers to innovate and provide tools to meet privacy, sovereignty, and compliance requirements.

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The fight to make Netflix and Hulu pay cable fees

The Verge

“It’s a remnant of how we did cable franchising,” says John Bergmayer, legal director of the internet-focused nonprofit Public Knowledge. And it specifically exempts some services that don’t require that physical access, like programming from mobile services. An early January ruling favored fee-seeking cities.

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Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic

The Verge

We absorbed the mobile division of HTC. Google is broadly focused on the internet space, and you know if [a problem] is distinctly different from that, and allows us to still apply the technology — maybe share common things like AI and our data centers but have the right structure, right incentives, right approach to go tackle that problem.

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