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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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Marc Ganzi’s Colony Capital is making one of its biggest moves ever out of non-digital investments, so that it can focus on digital infrastructure.
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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.
