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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. -
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.
Forthcoming events
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The biggest shareholder in mobile operator Veon is to spend £1 billion building a fibre network in two rural English counties.
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Vincent Gerritsen, head of UK and Europe at H.R.L Morrison & Co, discusses the buzzing infrastructure investment market with Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman, and explains why the firm has a “telco DNA".
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The digital analytics and AI arm of Malaysia's Axiata Group is to receive a $60 million investment from Softbank.
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Canada's eStruxture has secured around US$490 million in funding to pay for the just-completed acquisition of Aptum's Canadian data centre business and to back future buys.
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, the UK's first digital infrastructure fund, has acquired its first digital assets.
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Microsoft is planning to spend billions of dollars in building 50 to 100 new data centres every year, as it expands its Microsoft Azure cloud footprint.
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Eutelsat has spent US$550 million on a 24% stake in satellite company OneWeb, joining Bharti Global and the UK government — which each spent $500 million — as an equal shareholder.
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US and UK investment firms have joined forces to build a $4.2 billion hyperscale data centre campus in Portugal.
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Mavenir, the open RAN company that last year abandoned a US$300 million share flotation plan, has had a $500 million investment from part of the Koch family group.
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AT&T has announced a $2 billion investment over three years in an attempt to bridge the digital divide in the US.
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Jennifer Fritzsche is joining the global telecom and digital infrastructure leadership team at investment bank Greenhill & Co.
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Liquid Telecom began as a carrier providing services across Africa. Now, CEO Nic Rudnick tells Alan Burkitt-Gray why they’ve changed the name to reflect the group’s new business.
