investment
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The EU is set to unveil an ambitious, multi-pronged blueprint it believes will help guide the bloc to become a global AI leader. -
BTS Group has made a strategic investment in ZIM Connections, a company specialising in global eSIM connectivity solutions.
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Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has unveiled plans to develop four new data centres in Germany.
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Low latency network solutions provider Avelacom has added AWS São Paulo to its portfolio of direct cloud connectivity locations, providing institutional crypto trading firms with streamlined access to Brazil’s B3 exchange.
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Data centres are enjoying a boom, with billions of dollars being pumped into new facilities to support increased demand for cloud and storage services, along with the emergence of AI.
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President Trump shocked the world late last week with sweeping tariffs that have sent stock markets tumbling. The new levies could severely hamper the data centre boom as just about every major cost centre required for buildout was subject to the new taxes.
Forthcoming events
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Investment giant Blackstone is leading a CDN$7 billion (USD$4.9 billion) equity investment in Canadian telecom firm Rogers Communications as it looks to reduce its debt.
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The uncertain future of embattled semiconductor giant Intel has taken a significant step towards clarity, as it has reportedly agreed to join forces with TSMC.
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Microsoft is reportedly pulling the plug on additional data centre projects, with planned sites in Indonesia and Australia now joining a string of cancellations across the US, UK, and Europe, signalling a possible rethink of its AI strategy.
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The iliad Group has finalised its multi-billion dollar partnership with private equity firm InfraVia that looks to position its data centre subsidiary OpCore as a major European hyperscale platform.
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AirTrunk is securing a US$1.7 billion (SG$2.2 billion) green loan to fund an 80.2MW data centre in Singapore—yet no one in the industry seems to know where this new facility will be located.
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Raxio Group has secured $100 million in financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to fuel its Sub-Saharan African regional data centre platform.
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Data centres are expanding at breakneck speed, and fibre networks are racing to keep up.
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T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider Lumos, forming a joint venture set to bring full-fibre broadband to homes across the US.
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A new era is underway at Intel as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan took to the stage at the company’s Vision 2025 event, delivering a candid and defiant keynote that laid bare the stark challenges ahead and his commitment to overcoming them.
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AMD has sealed its £4.9 billion ($6.3 billion) purchase of server maker ZT Systems to accelerate its AI and data centre solutions strategy.
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Vivendi has agreed to sell a 15% stake in Telecom Italia (TIM) to the Italian postal service provider, Poste Italiane, in a deal worth around €684 million.
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Singtel-owned technology services firm NCS is expanding its Asia Pacific footprint, launching a joint venture with Globe Telecom in the Philippines.
