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Anthropic, the Amazon and Google-backed AI startup behind Claude is once again on the hunt for cash, with reports suggesting it could raise up to $2 billion. -
Microsoft has continued its global cloud and AI infrastructure investing efforts, unveiling plans to spend $3 billion in India.
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The Commerce Department has finalised Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC)’s $325 million direct funding award to build a new manufacturing facility in Hemlock, Michigan.
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Asia Pacific data centre operator Digital Edge has raised more than $1.6 billion to expand its services across the region.
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The US Department of Commerce has earmarked the location of the third flagship CHIPS for America research and development (R&D) facility and greenlit the creation of a virtual semiconductor manufacturing research centre.
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Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion to build AI-enabled data centres, Brad Smith, the company’s president has revealed.
Forthcoming events
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MTN Uganda and IHS Holding have both announced further details for their respective initial public offerings (IPO).
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Infratil, the New Zealand company that owns CDC Data Centres in Australia, has taken a stake in UK-based Kao Data, to fund expansion plans.
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Pension investor TIAA has backed Arcadian Infracom's new, long-haul fibre backbone with "up to US$140 million".
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Stonepeak now owns a 50% stake in DELTA Fibre following an ownership shakeup.
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Reinforcing the investment value in ICT, AustralianSuper has snapped up a 70% stake in another tower portfolio.
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IoT network carrier 1NCE has raised $50 million in capital from a raft of investors including Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank.
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UK-based infrastructure investor Digital 9 has raised another £275 million in a share placing – £75 million more than it expected.
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Prime Data Centers is ploughing “up to $1 billion” into a 750,000-plus sq ft Chicago data centre campus that will provide up to 150MW of capacity.
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DāSTOR has made its industry debut through the acquisition of four data centres.
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LightEdge, a provider of colocation, cloud and managed service solutions, has been acquired by private investment firm GI Partners.
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Infrastructure manager Digital 9 is looking at investments worth £670 million in the short term, and a total of £1.85 billion over the next 12 months.
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TierPoint has announced plans to build a new 23,000 sq ft Tier III data centre in the Westport area of St. Louis County, Missouri.
