NTT Data is opening a third campus in Berlin with up to 96MW of capacity planned across two data centers The IT infrastructure company’s Global Data Centers division will develop and operate the campus in Brieselang This new campus will be built on a 10.8-hectare (26.6-acre) plot “Berlin is an important market in our growing portfolio and expansion plans," said Doug Adams CEO and president of NTT Global Data Centers "This new development strengthens our presence and paves the way for further entry into Tier 2 markets facilitating our sustained growth and leadership in the data center industry as we continue to meet our clients’ needs.” NTT Data currently operates 48 data centers in seven countries in the EMEA with more than 429MW of critical IT load and 212MW of planned expansion It has two existing Berlin campuses, the newest of which, Berlin 2 on Lankwitzer Strasse, came online in 2022 with an initial 24MW of capacity The 5MW Berlin 1 campus has been online since 2021 “Our focus remains on providing additional capacity by expanding our footprint in both Tier 1 and Tier 2 markets in Europe,” said Florian Winkler CEO for the EMEA region at NTT Global Data Centers and the company’s global chief operating officer “The expansion in Berlin leverages our previous successes in developing and operating data centers across continental Europe and the UK and we look forward to building this new site in partnership with local authorities and stakeholders.” Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Make your digital transformation a reality The successful integration of AI and IoT in manufacturing will depend on effective change management Leverage our capabilities to accelerate your business transformation Discover how to achieve your business goals through cloud modernization practices Discover how to maximize operational excellence business continuity and financial sustainability through our cloud-advanced optimization services end-to-end digital on-premises platform that supports different industries with the benefits of private 5G We’ll help you navigate the complexities and opportunities of GenAI When organizations focus on transformation a move to the cloud can deliver cost savings – but they often need expert advice to help them along their journey Make zero trust security work for your organization across hybrid work environments Helping you meet the demand for constant innovation and transformation Discover how we accelerate your business transformation Liantis – an established HR company in Belgium – had built up data islands and isolated solutions as part of their legacy system We ensured that Randstad’s migration to Genesys Cloud CX had no impact on availability ensuring an exceptional user experience for clients and talent NTT DATA is a Leader and Star Performer in the Everest Group Sustainability Enablement Technology Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024 is a leading IT infrastructure and services company serving 65% of the Fortune Global 500 and over 75% of the Fortune Global 100 We lay the foundation for organizations’ edge-to-cloud networking ecosystem simplify the complexity of their workloads across multicloud environments and innovate at the edge of their IT environments where networks We offer tailored infrastructure and ensure consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our secure On the journey towards a software-defined future we support organizations with our platform-delivered infrastructure services Zalando and Fiege Create New Prospects for Logistics Site in Brieselang Logistics provider Fiege to take over operations on April 1 Fiege aims for conversion to a multi-user location All Contacts Amazon is reportedly installing a new air conditioning (AC) unit The said Amazon facility is the same warehouse wherein one of the workers of the e-commerce giant died during the Prime Day shopping rush As per the latest news by The Verge, Amazon is reportedly upgrading its warehouse in New Jersey adding a new AC and a couple of additional fans helping to lower the temperature in the facility The spokesperson of Amazon, Sam Stephenson, says in a statement to the NBC News that the tech giant frequently checks the temperatures in its facilities the Amazon spokesperson says that their safety teams are taking "action to address any temperature-related issues." the same New Jersey warehouse of Amazon is the location where one of its employees died The Verge notes in its report that during that day the temperature in the area reached a staggering 92 degrees One of the employees at the EWR9 warehouse has also disclosed to NBC News that the facility has areas that have fans to help with the ventilation Amazon reportedly says that the death of one of its New Jersey warehouse employees is all due to "a personal medical condition." the renowned e-commerce platform also notes that the said worker who died during the Prime Day rush failed to report to his managers that he was feeling under the weather A recent report by NBC News last July states that the tech giant has already ruled out the conditions at its facility as the reason for his fatality it is not really clear whether the hot temperature inside the Amazon facility had caused the death of one of its employees a new report claims that the tech behemoth has decided to install a new AC at the same facility wherein one of its workers died Amazon is also reportedly installing additional fans in various parts of the facility the tech giant has yet to confirm nor deny the upgrades in its New Jersey facility Sign up for our free newsletter for the Latest coverage Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Leon Jakobeit stands at the Astor Film Lounge surrounded by actors and celebrities: today marks the premiere of the Amazon Original "Carnival Row" (the undubbed original English language version launched on August 30 on Amazon Prime Video) Leon accompanied a colleague who had won tickets for the premiere: Amazon had raffled tickets among the employees of the FC Brieselang and other Berlin sites such as Amazon Fresh That's why Leon now stands next to Hollywood icon and actor Orlando Bloom and chats with the star: “Had someone told me that I would have such a casual conversation with one of the most famous actors in the world I would probably have thought they were crazy." Even a few days later Leon can hardly believe that he rubbed shoulders with the stars: “The conversation with Orlando Bloom was an incredible experience that I will not forget very soon.” Kostas Chassan Liveris from Amazon Fresh also won one of the much coveted tickets in the employee raffle the crowd was waiting for Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne and I was allowed to pass them by and go in He was very impressed by leading lady Cara Delevingne: “She was super funny and made a lot of jokes Carnival Row is set in a Victorian fantasy world inhabited by mythological creatures who had to escape their exotic homelands after conquest by the human kingdoms The growing population suffers badly while co-existing alongside humans - because they are not allowed to live they are forced to hide their true nature and adapt to the human way of life hope springs eternal: Human detective Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) and refugee fae Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delivingne) start a dangerous love affair in this increasingly intolerant society Vignette is guarding a mystery that threatens Philostrate's world during his most important case yet - a series of gruesome murders threatening the strained peace of Carnival Row This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. 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Downloadable PDFs are a benefit of an FP subscription This article is an Insider exclusive Contact us at [email protected] to learn about upgrade options unlocking the ability to gift this article “Enter amazon.com and you have exited capitalism Despite all the buying and the selling that goes on here you have entered a realm which can’t be thought of as a market This is the core contention in Yanis Varoufakis’s new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism Varoufakis insists that the digital platforms have become so powerful so fundamental to the working of the global economy that they have effectively replaced capitalism as it has long been understood have more in common with feudal lords than captains of industry Their interests run counter to the digital proletariat (tech workers) and digital serfs (platform users) he attempts to activate the class consciousness of those of us toiling in the Facebook and Twitter fields providing free content from which the cloudalists capture rent It is a provocative argument but also an ultimately unpersuasive one Varoufakis insists that there is simply no parallel to Amazon’s marketplace or Apple’s App Store under 20th-century capitalism and that we must reach back to the feudal era to find an appropriate analog But the rent-seeking he describes does not sound so alien to me It sounds a lot like that forgotten 20th-century technology They create conditions that attract customers and keep them there They display advertisements and hold community events it was criticized not as a return to feudal domination but as a prime example of the excesses of capitalist consumer culture Amazon and the other big tech platforms are not precisely like a mall. In many ways, as Varoufakis underlines, they’re worse. But the reasons why are instructive. If a mall took up to 30 percent out of every sale that its vendors made, as Apple’s App Store does then the vendors would likely close up shop and move to a nearby strip mall If the mall prevented that competitive behavior by then those competitors would probably file a lawsuit accusing the mall owners of anticompetitive behavior The intuitive remedy to the problems posed by an unregulated-monopolist-mall would be to enforce existing regulations or pass some new ones We need not forge a revolutionary new class consciousness among shoppers in order to make a difference I presume Varoufakis would reject this comparison because Technofeudalism does not consider possibilities outside its own sphere of argument been one of global capitalism’s sharpest critics He composes this book as an extended letter to his deceased father This rhetorical choice has some considerable benefits—the argument is engaging But it also turns the book into an argument by a Marxist-leftist A preexisting fondness for and deep familiarity with the classic works of Karl Marx are something of a prerequisite Alternate explanations and counterarguments are never broached The imagined audience is there to delight at Varoufakis’s chosen metaphors without pushing too hard on its boundaries or evaluating alternate explanations The book can be frustratingly uneven at times Varoufakis draws strong connections between the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and the unchecked accrual of power and capital by tech billionaires in the years to follow He is at his best when making this argument But he also exhibits a tendency toward what the scholar Lee Vinsel terms “criti-hype,” wherein tech critics accept and amplify the marketing hype of tech companies declaring that they pose an existential threat to society rather than questioning their limitations Varoufakis treats these cloud companies as all-powerful seeding our preferences and desires through algorithmic manipulation while throwing so much capital at governments that there is no hope of reining them in Only a mass uprising of cloud proles and cloud serfs Far from being impregnable digital fiefdoms, all of the major digital platforms are currently facing significant legal and regulatory challenges. Lina Khan offered one of the sharpest critiques of Amazon’s monopoly power in 2017 She is now chair of the Federal Trade Commission Varoufakis may be skeptical that these reformist efforts will be up to the task But he does the book a disservice by ignoring them entirely And in trying to prop these cloudalists up as a unique defining force in the global economic order The weakest passage in the book comes when Varoufakis attempts to fit Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter into a technofeudal explanatory framework: “Musk is our era’s Thomas Edison (…) Having revolutionized industries that are normally the graveyard of upstarts from car manufacturing to space travel and even brain-computer interfaces Musk proceeded to spend tens of billions of dollars on buying Twitter risking in the process everything he had achieved as a manufacturer and engineer and despite attaining richest-man-in-the-world status neither his achievements nor his wealth granted him entry into the new ruling class.” There are indeed a plethora of explanations for why Musk purchased Twitter The simplest among them is that he had abundant cash on hand having just sold a large chunk of Tesla stock So he impulsively spent $44 billion and then the Delaware Court of Chancery refused to let him backtrack on the deal when he had second thoughts Varoufakis stands alone in suggesting that Musk was not already a member of the new ruling class SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives for the Axel Springer Award in Berlin on Dec It strains credulity to suggest that the world’s richest man the very archetype of the modern tech baron was somehow not a member of the new ruling class until he bought and failed to back out of acquiring Twitter It had $4 million in 2023 revenue and operates at a net loss But many investors have bet that many other investors (some foreign some domestic) will want to own a piece of the former U.S Bitcoin has quietly recovered from the 2022 crypto crash We still don’t have any clear use-cases for blockchain technology but it has proved to be an enduring speculative vehicle based not on some major breakthrough in electric car sales or rocket launches but on the strength of Tesla as a meme stock Judging companies based on the strength of their market fundamentals has become a sucker’s bet There has always been a casino element to capitalist economies mostly regulated marketplace with a small back-alley casino then 21st-century capitalism is an opulent Vegas casino with a small marketplace gift shop attached A system where wealth is created not through creating new value but by inventing new speculative opportunities does indeed seem like a departure from capitalism as it is idealized Peasants work in a field in the shadow of a feudal castle in a medieval engraving.Wenzel Holler via Getty Images The dominant economic arrangement under feudalism is that the serfs do all the work and the landed gentry sustains its creature comforts by extracting rents from that labor The element of Technofeudalism that I find least compelling is the claim that social media users busying ourselves watching YouTube clips and sharing pet pictures on Instagram must adopt a radical new class consciousness as digital serfs if we are to make any impact hang out with some friends in Facebook’s mall The first step in political mobilization is meeting people where they are And we aren’t toiling in anyone’s fields when we socialize for free on ad-supported digital platforms Reading Technofeudalism brings to mind another recent book Merchant takes a different route and arrives at a more trenchant critique the original 19th-century Luddite movement backed up by meticulous historical research that the Luddites were not anti-technology They made collective claims on how and to whom the gains from new technologies ought to be distributed The book draws strong parallels to contemporary events—Amazon labor actions It offers the most damning critique of today’s tech barons that I have seen in recent years and it does so without resorting to criti-hype Books are independently selected by FP editors. 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GERMANY – NOVEMBER 28: A worker loads a truck with packages at an Amazon packaging center on November 28 Amazon is anticipating a strong holiday season and has hired extra workers at its packaging center across Germany have announced strikes to further their demands for better pay After dealing with "horrific" work conditions since the coronavirus pandemic began, Amazon employee Chris Smalls organized a walkout and strike against the company yesterday. According to The New York Post "They pretty much retaliated against me for speaking out," Smalls explains Chris Smalls worked at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island where an employee just tested positive for coronavirus One of the demands he and his fellow employees asked for during their strike was that the warehouse temporarily close and clean the facility They also wanted paid time off for people who were either sick or self-quarantining Amazon claims that Smalls was fired for violating social distancing guidelines and refusing to stay quarantined after coming into contact with the employee who had coronavirus "Despite that instruction to stay home with pay This is unacceptable and we have terminated his employment as a result of these multiple safety issues." Amazon also adds that they are "tripling down" on their cleaning they are providing safety gear for employees they are checking temperatures as employees enter the facility and they are making sure employees practice social distancing Chris Smalls did another interview with Bloomberg TV where he goes into more detail about work conditions at Amazon Download the app to LISTEN LIVE wherever you are and connect with us like never before Horror stories from Amazon warehouses have been rife this year But Amazon thinks many of the concerns have been fabricated. That's according to head of warehouse operations, John Felton, who was interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph. "There is a lot of negative press out there Much of it is written by people that haven’t been to the buildings Business Insider has also spoken directly to Amazon warehouse staff across the world Some echoed Bloodworth's experiences in describing the intense pressure of working in a fulfillment center where they pick and pack items for delivery Felton said Amazon is a target for negative press "We’re a big company and I think that means that we are a target one of our responsibilities is to accept scrutiny," he explained adding that the firm has a "great employee experience we're really proud of." Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Customers can order booze via an app and have it delivered in hours I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Amazon Prime, Amazon’s premium delivery service, has gone from offering subscribers free two-day delivery to expanding into a host of linked services such as on-demand video and TV streaming. But its latest bet tops them all: booze. Amazon said on Tuesday that it will start delivering wine, beer and spirits to customers for the first time as part of its speedy delivery service, Prime Now, Reuters has reported. Prime Now, which offers one- and two-hour delivery, started in New York last year to allow Amazon to start delivering fresh groceries. Users in Seattle will be the first to trial the service that lets them order alcohol via an app. The order is then shipped from smaller warehouses, called hubs, of which there are only two right now, one in Seattle and one in Kirkland, Washington. The service takes Amazon deeper into the growing market for on-demand grocery delivery that already includes companies like Instacart in the US and Postmates, which delivers meals and alcohol. It might also tempt new users to stump up the $99 annual fee to sign up to Prime. Amazon users outside of Seattle might need to wait a bit longer to get the service. “We will continue to learn from customers and if they love the offering of alcohol in the Prime Now service, we will look to continue to expand the offering in other locations,” an Amazon spokesperson told GeekWire. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Amazon has found a way into your life even when you've chosen to shop at a competitor Amazon operates a logistics service called Fulfillment by Amazon FBA gives third-party sellers an easy way to manage their store and ship any items bought on its site out to Amazon customers is that Amazon also offers the same service to people who are selling the same products on competing marketplaces This service is known as Multi-Channel Fulfillment it means Amazon could deliver you a package even if you bought it somewhere else While this is certainly a convenient way for sellers to run their stores and keep the storage and shipping process in one place — it comes at a price According to Vox sellers can pay up to 75% more to have packages shipped out to customers who bought the item on a competing platform it's this price discrepancy that recently caught the attention of US regulators A spokesperson for Amazon did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment Read more: The FTC is asking Amazon's rivals if they are being crushed by Jeff Bezos' company This shipping service is an easy way for Amazon to get its brand into the homes of more consumers as these shipped items are wrapped in Amazon packaging "I purchased a couple of Culligan water filter replacement cartridges on eBay and man were they here fast 1 day shipping just wow!" one Ebay shopper wrote on an Ebay community page "But the box they came in was from Amazon I thought it's just a used box but no inside there's a receipt from Amazon fulfillment for my order." It's not certain whether this shopper received the item via Fulfillment by Amazon but some of the commenters on that page suggested that this was likely Edesk wrote in a blog post that the confusion over the Amazon packaging could also send customers on to Amazon's site as they cross check prices. "If the item is available for less on Amazon that can be a problem for eBay sellers," the writer said in the blog post Amazon Warehouses has been leaked by a former employee saying that the e-commerce company scraps and throws away random products if they do not get sold for a specific time in knowing why several products are unavailable on the platform anymore It is a known fact that Amazon is the largest e-commerce company in the world providing its services to different countries and nationalities and catering to local products they provide it is normal that the company has massive warehouses distributed around the world with some getting full storage leading to the need to dispose of some It is not established whether Amazon's Prime Day, Black Friday and other annual sales are also another way to free up its congested storage and have people buy thousands of products from them and the manufacturers Amazon's move is no different from other industries like restaurants which throw unsold food daily and other examples like the tech industry with obsolete technology already The case was brought up by a worker in Dunfermline, Scotland, by a Scottish Amazon employee (via ITV News) in which he caught different documentation proofs of what Amazon does it was revealed that old items were already out for scrapping or junk while others are marked for donations and giving away to those in need there was one incident that the worker has shown where 7,000 items in April were only 7 days old or on their first week stay on the warehouse but already goes onto the junk list 28,000 items were marked for donations after its stay in the warehouse with Amazon giving them to an unknown beneficiary Apart from scrapping and donating these products a manager from Amazon's Dunfermline also admitted that the company orders them to "destroy" several products Several employees are reported to have "gone numb" for doing these things and proceeds to destroy said items despite their value Amazon is a massive company that has grown its business on a rather humongous scale with Jeff Bezos becoming one of the most profitable CEOs in the industry Amazon may have no problem in losing these goods especially if the seller or product does not meet the expectations or terms that have been set when they agreed to sell their goods off the platform According to Deutsche Welle European Laws do not require the need to disclose how many items were being scrapped in a certain business and this includes Amazon that has hundreds of warehouses in the region the Mulhuddart site could use as much electricity as a city AMAZON HAS GOT the green light for its new huge new data centre in north-west Dublin Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited submitted plans to Fingal County Council seeking to build a 20,739 sq m (223,000 sq ft) data centre This is about three times as big as the pitch in the Aviva Stadium which will be located at a site bounded by Cruiserath Road will cost about €200 million to build and will require around 30 full-time staff to maintain when completed it could build an additional seven data facilities as part of a masterplan for the 26-hectare site Although the development was approved by Fingal County Council several parties appealed this decision to An Bórd Pleanala One of the reasons for the appeal was due to the amount of electricity that the data centre could consume. If fully built out with all the additional seven data halls, it could consume 4.4% of the all-Ireland energy demand by 2026. this means that it would use as much electricity as every household in a city the size of Galway the planning body found in favour of the US tech giant and granted permission for the first stage of the development would be in accordance with the proper planning and sustainable development of the area,” it said The ruling will come as a boost to Amazon which already has several data centres in Dublin including one located in nearby Blanchardstown and three near Tallaght It is also planning to build a data centre near Dublin Airport at the Clonshaugh Business and Technology Park Sign up to our newsletter to receive a regular digest of Fora’s top articles delivered to your inbox. 2025 Fora All Rights Reserved 'Workers drive economy not billionaires': Woman explains free market is rigged to favor the richErin pointed out that the rich tended to hoard cash while working class people always spent their money While giving tax breaks has failed repeatedly, politicians are in no mood to change their ways. One concerned Twitter user, Alexandra Erin pointed out that it was basic economics to invest in the working class rather than the billionaire class She posted a Twitter thread explaining why and it just makes so much more sense Here's why Erin believes the working class drives the economy and not the rich: Conservative economists are so embarrassing You're almost 63 years old and you still believe in the invisible hand of the free market Most of us outgrew imaginary friends before we hit the double digits "I'm gonna give tax breaks to big companies because they are job creators," says the hayseed of an economist.The big company says kid." and pays the money out to its wealthy stakeholders who have nothing to spend it on and pocket it."I helped!" Here's some economic reality: if you can give a dollar to a billionaire or you can give it to a minimum wage worker give it to the minimum wage worker every time.The billionaire will still get it probably giving it to a business that employs minimum wage workers That's a dollar of business for that business That business has taken in an extra dollar It pays its workers in part with that dollar making minimum wage and living paycheck to paycheck The dollar you gave the homeless person will keep being spent and keep climbing up the economic ladder until it comes to rest in fractions in the pockets of the wealthy investor class you wanted to give it to in the first place Along the way it has generated more than a single dollar's worth of GDP.Now you've got this keen theory that when it hits the pockets of the billionaires they're going to invest it and it will become jobs Maybe you're right!And maybe that dollar will "trickle down" in any kind of meaningful fashion But even if you're exactly right and the billionaire's going to do magical things with that dollar that's good for everyone it still makes more sense to inject the money at the bottom of the economy than the top The same people who talk about "trickle down economics" also say "a rising tide lifts all boats" Give economic relief to people who are living hand to mouth and they will immediately spend it enriching themselves with whatever they spend it on And the person or business they give the money to is enriched And whoever they pass it on to is enriched Erin points out that the current economy starves the consumers leaving them with no money to pump back into the economy She also made the demarcation that it wasn't the existence of businesses that created jobs but rather the act of doing business that generated jobs Businesses don't create jobs.Business creates jobs.Businesses can't do business if they don't have customers Customers can't do business if they don't have money We've built a consumer economy and our great economists keep advocating we starve the consumer class The secret to keeping the engine of capitalism running for a million years would be: keep redistributing the money When a dollar reaches the top kick it back to the bottom Jeff Bezos still has his Amazon and whatnot but the money keeps moving There's this whole argument about whether wealth is earned or distributed but honestly it is created The difference between wealth and mere resources is that wealth requires synergistic interactions to make the resources more than they are on their own And while there's certainly a tipping point where the returns vanish allowing more interactions creates more wealth You don't want to literally have an ouroboros of money where billionaires keep emptying their wallets into the streets Top heavy capitalism will collapse under its own weight every time Money has to circulate for the thing to work Not just more money (that's inflation) but more wealth A recent report showed that corporations were swinging money into their pockets instead of paying their workers a sustainable wage. A report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that the federal minimum wage would have stood at $26 an hour today if it had kept up with the economy's productivity over the last 50 years, reported CBS News. Today which means for every employee paid that much the corporations get to pocket the difference in wages Republicans continue to scoff at the idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 dollars "We have seen that complete divorce between wages and productivity and massively increased inequality with most gains going to people at the top," said Ken Jacobs Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education Corporations right now:🤑Laid off staff in 2020🤑Received generous gov bailout🤑Use myths of great resignation and labor shortage to understaff🤑Shovel work on people that don’t have a better option🤑Use the myth of inflation to raise pricesResult Scoop Upworthy is an independent news and lifestyle website sharing the best of humanity as part of the GOOD Worldwide family of publications.