AI
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Open source has been a driving factor behind the ever-continuing rise in AI. From the early days of OpenAI (before it closed its doors) and Meta’s ever-growing herd of llamas, open source AI has powered tools and technologies used by industries all over the world.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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US-based Sila Realty Trust is selling 29 data centres to Singapore's Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) for around $1.3 billion - pulling out of the data centre market at the same time.
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Verizon Business has appointed its first senior vice president of IIOT and Automotive as it looks to cement a leading position in the connected vehicle, device, and industrial equipment markets.
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Microsoft has won planning approval to build a new data centre campus near Chicago, but it still has to finalise the power requirements.
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DCI Data Centers is to build a larger US$54 million data centre in Adelaide, South Australia to add to its portfolio in the country.
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stc Bahrain and Huawei are collaborating on a Content Delivery Network (CDN) serving multiple industries and sectors regionally and globally.
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DE-CIX, the operator of the world’s largest internet exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, has been granted a patent for its new anti-distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) technology, designed to stem attacks targeting its data customers.
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Global infrastructure investment firm Digital Colony is acquiring Landmark Dividend (LD), the real estate and infrastructure acquisition and development company, for $972 million - which includes a number of digital and data centre assets.
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Guarulhos International Airport, in São Paulo, has become the first in the world to provide friction-free Wifi access.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Telefónica's O2 has doubled down on its sustainability commitments, announcing that it is "radically overhauling" its data centres and core network sites as mobile data rates in the UK increase.
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The COO and interim chief legal officer of Zoom has been appointed to the board of Palo Alto Networks.
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Schneider Electric is launching its EcoStruxure Micro Data Center R-Series for rugged indoor environments in Europe next month.