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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Romanian cloud service provider ClusterPower has laid out $43 million to start building a data centre campus near the southern city of Craiova.
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Altice takes BT stake; Colony Capital rebrands; QTS breaks records; and Ivo Ivanov talks Space-IX
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Up to 30 data centres in development in the Dublin metro area could struggle to get connected to the grid, after the Irish utilities regulator ordered power delivery firms to prioritise connection applications for data centres outside the capital.
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Principal Real Estate has sealed its first fund dedicated to developing and acquiring data centres in the US, being over-subscribed in raising $533 million from investors globally.
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Patrick Drahi’s Next Alt S.à r.l, through its subsidiary Altice UK, has purchased a 12% stake in UK incumbent telco, BT, valued at approximately £2.2 billion ($3.1 billion).
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Ofcom has appointed Sachin Jogia from Amazon as its new chief technology officer (CTO).
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Seraphim Capital, the space-sector investment group, has appointed the former director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) as a senior advisor and member of its advisory board.
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Since has splashed out on another acquisition, this time snapping up MessageMedia for US$1.1 billion in cash and 1,128,487 new shares in Sinch.
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Network connectivity provider FiberLight has completed its fibre expansion in the greater El Paso, Texas market, with a new point-of-presence through MDC's El Paso data centre.
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Valterra Partners and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547 CSR) have partnered to acquire ColoHouse, the global data centre services firm headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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Alibaba Cloud says it will build its first data centre in the Philippines by the end of this year, to extend the reach of its services including elastic compute, databases, security, machine learning and data analytics.
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The confirmed $10 billion acquisition of QTS Realty Trust by Blackstone - the biggest data centre acquisition ever seen - means the annual value of data centre mergers and acquisitions is moving towards a new record in 2021.