North America
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Here are some news stories from this week you might have missed. -
A joint venture between investment firm Harrison Street and AREP’s PowerHouse Data Centers has sold ABX-1, a 265,580-square-foot data centre in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Verizon and Geotab have been hit with a lawsuit alleging the pair infringed patented antenna technologies developed by Fractus.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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Telxius has teamed up with Orange, and Setar to create a new high-capacity subsea cable in the Caribbean.
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Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure solutions provider, has closed $150 million in secured debt financing with Macquarie Equipment Capital.
Forthcoming events
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Bernard Looney, former CEO of oil and gas giant BP has joined sustainable data centre startup Prometheus Hyperscale as chair of its Board of Directors.
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Nebius has launched its first GPU cluster as the AI infrastructure continues its North American expansion.
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DE-CIX has launched its sixth US-based Internet Exchange in Houston.
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The US Department of Defence has extended its contract with Verizon to use its secure Global Network Solutions (GNS) in a deal worth more than $98 million.
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Social media app TikTok has said it will fight an order by the Canadian government to cease operations in the country over national security concerns.
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Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President.
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Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands.
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed is the latest chipmaker to receive funding under the US CHIPS and Science Act, receiving up to $750 million to build a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing site in North Carolina.
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Crusoe, the crypto miners turned clean energy AI infrastructure operator, has launched a $3.4 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure to build data centres in Texas.
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Vertiv has revealed plans for a major expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint with a new 215,000-square-foot facility in Pelzer, South Carolina.
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Italian cloud and data centre operator Aruba S.p.A has unveiled its €300 million hyperscale data centre campus in Rome.
