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It appears to be the end for the CHIPS Act as President Trump described the Biden administration’s semiconductor subsidy programme as a “horrible, horrible thing”.
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Europe is at risk of falling irreversibly behind in the global AI race unless the European Commission takes urgent action to scale digital infrastructure, the President of the European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) has warned.
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Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC has announced a historic investment in US manufacturing, weeks after President Trump threatened punitive tariffs on imported chips.
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ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers company and a leader in Latin American data centre construction and operations, has successfully energised 200MW at its DC QR03 data centre campus in Querétaro, Mexico.
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Governor Kim Yung-Rok of South Korea’s Jeollanam-do Province has travelled to the US to sign a $35 billion agreement with Fir Hills (FH), part of Stock Farm Road (SFR), for the construction of the world’s largest AI data centre.
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Meta is reportedly considering a major expansion of its AI infrastructure with a new data centre campus that could cost over $200 billion, according to several sources.
Forthcoming events
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Airtel Africa confirms that Chimera Investment has investment $50 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC BV), through shares from one of its subsidiaries.
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Digital 9, the UK-based infrastructure investment company that owns subsea company Aqua Comms, has bought SeaEdge UK1, a data centre asset and subsea fibre landing station.
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European long-haul and metro fibre company euNetworks has refinanced its debt and increased its total debt facilities to €760 million.
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FiberCop, TIM's infrastructure operator, has signed an agreement with AfinnaOne to jointly develop the Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) access market.
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited achieved a 9.5% return for its investors in the first nine months of the year, exceeding its stated target by 0.5%.
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The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing US$100 million in DigitalBridge tower and data centre projects in Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Ufinet executives met with the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso confirming a $250 million infrastructure investment in Ecuador.
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European telcos plan to invest £16 million in tech and service development over the next three years.
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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A Californian investment firm has put US$50 million into Matrixx Software to aid its expansion into the 5G business.
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Broadway Partners has secured £145 million to deliver full fibre broadband to rural areas across Scotland and Wales, UK.
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Peter Hopper has taken on the role of managing director of DigitalBridge.