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Microsoft is attempting to construct data centres made of wood as part of the company’s wider efforts to slash its carbon footprint. -
Nokia has expanded its work with Vietnamese service provider Viettel, with the operator set to deploy its optical transport solutions to scale network performance following their joint achievement of a record optical transmission speed.
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Investment firm KKR has formed a partnership with power generation investors Energy Capital Partners (ECP) to create a $50 billion fund to invest in digital infrastructure opportunities aimed at supporting AI and cloud workloads.
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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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RETN has secured a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Croatia's latest data centre to bolster service quality to domestic Croatian and international customers.
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The Chinese government has opened the doors to foreign investors to operate data centres in the country under a new pilot project.
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GlobalNet has launched a new 1,200km subset route connecting Stockholm and Berlin to expand its European network infrastructure.
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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.
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Optical semiconductor supplier Infinera has secured $93 million in direct funding from the US government to expand its fabrication and test and packaging facilities.
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Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire Motivair Corporation, a liquid cooling and thermal management solution provider for data centre sites.
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Stramski speaks to Capacity on the need for Europe to catch up on data centre technology
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Intel and AMD have joined forces to establish an x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, aimed at countering the growing dominance of alternative processor architectures like Arm.
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Angola Cables has launched a European subsidiary, TelCables Europe, to bring its digital solutions to customers across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Data centre operator DataBank has raised US$2 billion to fund expansions of new data centre sites to meet increasing demand for AI, cloud and, enterprise workloads.
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Hear from Anders Grand, Senior Director and Regional Managing Director of Europe and Major Accounts at Ciena, Oyvind Espedalen, CTO at Altibox Carrier, and Kjetil Okland, Project Manager at Altibox Carrier, as they speak with Capacity's Nadine Hawkins. They discuss why the Nordic countries are becoming a key location for data centre deployments, what Altibox is doing to build networks, how they plan to meet the growing demand for increased capacity and faster connectivity, and what steps they are taking to address the rising power consumption of data centres.
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Amazon has made a significant sustainability move, becoming the latest hyperscaler to snap up modular nuclear reactors to provide carbon-free energy to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
