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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Rogers Communications has appointed Glenn Brandt as its new chief financial officer (CFO).
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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CommScope has become the latest name to join Meta Connectivity's Evenstar initiative, which is working build general-purpose RAN reference designs for 4G and 5G networks in the Open RAN ecosystem.
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RCS (Rich Communication Services) subscribers will grow from 1.2 billion in 2022 to 3.8 billion by 2026 according to a new study from Juniper Research.
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Canadian carriers Metro Optic and Crosslake Fibre are to work together to expand their services to hyperscale users in Canada and the US.
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As the connected future dawns, telcos and network operators will collaborate in even more complex supply chains and ecosystems. Daniel Bar-Lev, VP strategic programs at MEF, explains how simplicity is still possible
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service is offering a faster service, at 150-500Mbps, with deliveries starting in the second quarter of this year.
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Network connectivity specialist Connected2Fiber has today changed its name to Connectbase.
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Telesat is to deploy Cobham SATCOM 3-axis TRACKER 4000 terminals for its Lightspeed landing station network.
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Telstra and the National Hockey League (NHL) have signed a five-year agreement to distribute up to 1,400 games per year using Telstra’s Global Media Network (GMN).
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DataBank has purchased the data centre it leases in the Centennial municipality in Colorado, allowing it to expand the campus onto an adjacent plot and create Centennial Campus.
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ColoHouse has opened its third data hall in Miami, providing more than 500kw of power and an additional 6,000 square feet of space.
