North America
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New images of Elon Musk’s xAI data centre reveal a major expansion of on-site gas turbines, which campaigners claim violates environmental regulations. -
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled a major expansion to its Aruba Networking Central platform, offering new deployment models aimed at organisations with strict data control, security, and compliance requirements.
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Microsoft might be scaling back on several data centre projects, but rival Meta is reportedly steaming ahead with plans to spend almost $1 billion on a new project in Wisconsin.
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Investment giant Blackstone is leading a CDN$7 billion (USD$4.9 billion) equity investment in Canadian telecom firm Rogers Communications as it looks to reduce its debt.
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Arelion has launched three new fully diverse mesh routes in Texas, forming a ring from Austin to Dallas, to Houston and back to Austin, with additional capacity between Austin, San Antonio and El Paso.
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Cerebras Systems, makers of some of the largest chips in the world, has launched six new data centres to power its growing AI inference service.
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SES and Lynk Global have revealed a strategic partnership to accelerate the high-growth direct-to-device (D2D) market.
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Elon Musk’s xAI is believed to have purchased a one-million-square-foot site for a new data centre to expand its presence in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Florida-based IQ Fiber is set to expand its 10-gig capable network in South Carolina to continue its expansion across the Southeast of the US.
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SAT-IX has become the first Internet Exchange to partner with DE-CIX as a Turnkey Connectivity Partner, enabling San Antonio networks to directly connect and peer with networks in Dallas without additional transport solutions or remote cross-connect charges.
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Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has connected 5,000 additional homes to high-speed internet in Virginia's Shenandoah County, with plans to reach 2,000 more properties by year-end.
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The province of Ontario will cancel Starlink’s licence to operate in a tit-for-tat if US President Trump introduces 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada.
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DE-CIX has brought in Nokia to support its New York IX upgrade to offer greater router flexibility and operational resilience.
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Private equity firm Novacap has launched a new fund to invest more than $1 billion in digital infrastructure projects across North America.
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Globalinx, a carrier-neutral cable landing station operator, has unveiled plans for an expansion project at Sandbridge Beach in Virginia Beach.
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Louisiana is the first US state to secure final approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Biden-Harris Administration’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) programme.
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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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A US appeals court has struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) latest attempt to enforce network neutrality rules, ruling that broadband internet service providers (ISPs) are classified as offering “information services” rather than “telecommunications services”.
