North America
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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. -
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.
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Google has started construction on two new data centres in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as part of a $2 billion investment that will create 200 jobs.
Forthcoming events
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AT&T has agreed to pay US$13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023.
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Macquarie Asset Management and PSP Investments will sell their 88% stake in AirTrunk to a Blackstone-led investor consortium.
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Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology.
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iBASIS has appointed Patrick George as its new CEO, following renewed backing from its existing financial investors including lead investor Ciclad.
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Nvidia will beat previous results when the chipmaker publishes its earnings later today.
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Italy’s Aruba S.p.A (Aruba) has implemented liquid cooling within the data centre campus in Ponte San Pietro (BG), near Milan.
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IQ Fiber has completed its Phase 1 network deployment with service now available to more than 60,000 residential addresses in the Jacksonville metro area.
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Tillman FiberCo (Tillman Fiber), a provider of fibre optic broadband infrastructure, has confirmed the expansion of its fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network in Florida.
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Pioneer Consulting has been selected to provide initial engineering and design services for the FISH in SEAK submarine cable system (fibre internet serving homes in Southeast Alaska), an early-stage submarine cable which complements the FISH in AK project (fibre internet serving homes in Alaska).
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Sabey Data Centers will be expanding into Umatilla, Oregon and will develop a 100+MW data centre campus after purchasing 60 acres.
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Digital Realty and TPG have established a joint venture in which TPG will acquire a majority stake in three hyperscale data centres in Northern Virginia.
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The Next G Alliance wants to shape 6G’s development to meet the ‘unique needs’ of the US. Ken Wieland investigates how it can do this while being committed to a single global standard.
