#15 - Coping with Covid-19, TikTok’s $500m Ireland data centre, and the latest news on GCAs 2020 and GWITTAs 2020

In this episode, the Data Economy and Capacity's news team
discuss how the internet has been coping during the Covid-19
pandemic, TikTok’s plan to build a $500 million data centre in
Ireland, Amazon’s cloud business AWS’s plan for three potential
data centres in Israel and the latest moves across the Africa
data centre market.


Featuring host editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large
Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporter Abigail Opiah.


This week the team is also joined by not one, but two special
guests: Carl Roberts, Partner at Hadaara Consulting and chairman
for the Capacity Global Carrier Awards 2020, and Georgia
Ermilios, Capacity’s senior product developer and supervisor for
the Global Women in Tech and Telco Awards 2020.


For more information on the awards, please visit:


GCAs 2020:
https://www.capacitymedia.com/EventDetails/Index/a011t00000LH321AAD?title=Global%20Carrier%20Awards&gca=True


GWITTAs 2020:
https://www.capacitymedia.com/EventDetails/Index/a011t00000LH1L7AAL?title=Global%20Women%20in%20Telco%20%26%20Tech&gca=False