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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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Lumen Technologies will expand its Quantum Fiber fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network over 2022, CEO Jeff Storey said last night, as he announced the company’s results.
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Direct Internet Access (DIA) is hot on the heels of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), which has experienced a sharp decline, with 42% of average sites running the product in 2021 according to TeleGeography.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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DE-CIX New York has announced it is now consistently exceeding one terabit per second (Tbps) peak internet traffic across its NY/NJ internet exchange platform.
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A US-based company is claiming success in its trials of using satellite to connect mobile phones.
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A venture capital investor has pumped US$50 million into a space start-up founded by Greg Wyler, previously of O3b and OneWeb.
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Young women aspiring to a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are able to access a new scholarship, courtesy of Telesat.
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Norwegian regulator Nkom has conducted tests to determine whether 5G could interfere with altimeters in helicopters.
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IBM has teamed with the Government of Quebec to launch the new Quebec-IBM Discovery Accelerator.
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DE-CIX Frankfurt and DE-CIX New York have achieved two data records at its respective Internet exchange facilities.
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Veon is moving its group parent company from Bermuda to London, saying it wants to be in “a jurisdiction with high standards of corporate governance”.
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Activist investors; shareholding U-turns; and STL's Ankit Agarwal
