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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North American data centre services firm Cologix has acquired an interconnection facility from Zayo Group in Vancouver and is opening another data centre in Toronto.
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Hong Kong-headquartered Big Data Exchange (BDx) has opened the first phase of its 35MW NKG Data Center Campus in Nanjing (pictured), China.
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Minister of Communications, Yoaz Hendel, has confirmed that Israel is to abolish the split it imposed between infrastructure providers and internet service suppliers.
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MainOne is set to launch its Appolonia Data Center, the latest facility of its MDXi subsidiary.
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Dialog Axiata has opened another Tier 3 data centre near Colombo (pictured), Sri Lanka.
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Al Yah Satellite has confirmed that it is to go public in the third quarter of this year, with a listing on the Abu Dhabi stock exchange.
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Investment manager Amber Infrastructure Group has acquired a majority stake in Australian data centre firm iseek - Amber's first Australian digital infrastructure investment.
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Private equity investment firm Inflexion has acquired Manchester, UK cloud services provider ANS and is merging it with its existing CSP UKFast, also based in Manchester.
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Nominations for the Global Carrier Awards are now open.
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Season 2, episode 20 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Tiago Rodrigues, CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance.
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Bulk Infrastructure has achieved OCP Ready certification for all three of its Scandinavian data centres, offering greater scalability and flexibility to customers.
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DataBank has expanded its Pittsburgh data centre, PIT2, by 25,000 sq ft and 2.5MW of power.