AI
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Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Tech Mahindra has opened a Centre of Excellence (CoE) powered by Nvidia AI Enterprise and Omniverse platforms.
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Latin American data centre operator ODATA unveiled plans to construct two facilities in Colombia to provide 144MW of connectivity to the region.
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Nokia has partnered with Lenovo to offer data centre solutions designed to meet increasing demand for AI workloads.
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Oriole Networks, a startup developing photonic networking technologies, has secured $22 million in funding to address the growing data centre demands driven by AI workloads.
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Lightmatter, a startup developing computing hardware that uses light instead of electricity has raised $400 million with its valuation soaring to $4.4 billion.
Forthcoming events
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Property adviser Knight Frank's Data Centre Report 2021 has recorded strong market momentum in the year.
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Telenor Group has adjusted its full year outlook as president and CEO Sigve Brekke declared a return to growth in Q2.
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Israeli real estate group Azrieli is acquiring 100% of Norway data centre services firm Green Mountain for around $850 million, to expand its data centre activity.
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GDS Holdings, the developer and operator of data centres in China, has announced a first step in its expansion into South East Asia with plans to develop a hyperscale campus in Johor, Malaysia.
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Rack Centre, the data centre colocation provider in West Africa, has completed the doubling of power capacity at its Lagos, Nigeria campus to 1.5MW.
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A planning application has been submitted for a €1.2 billion Ireland data centre campus in Ennis, County Clare, which promises to create 1,200 construction jobs and 250 data centre jobs.
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Macquarie Telecom's wholesale data centre business has claimed its largest investment to date as it builds a facility that will house its Sovereign Cyber Security Centre of Excellence.
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Construction project management firm HanmiGlobal is now partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to promote South Korea as the next big data centre hub for Asia, as political uncertainty continues in Hong Kong and building restrictions threaten to curtail growth in Singapore.
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IBM is acquiring Madrid-headquartered Bluetab Solutions Group to extend its portfolio of data and hybrid cloud consulting services across Europe and Latin America.
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CMC Networks has become the first Juniper Networks partner to offer a managed AI-driven SD-WAN solution in Africa.
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Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure have announced an agreement to establish a 50/50 joint venture focused on the development, ownership and operation of “institutional quality” data centres in India.
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Fidelity, which owns Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), has entered into a joint venture agreement with Mitsui & Co to build hyperscale data centres in Japan.