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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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The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) has launched the Women in Fiber Committee to advance the role of women in the fibre broadband industry.
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AT&T has changed its position again on its WarnerMedia stake – by deciding to offload all of its remaining shares to shareholders.
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Syniverse has concluded a significant deal with Verizon, just a week before its shareholders consider a US$2.85 billion reverse takeover bid.
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T-Mobile has achieved its plan to source 100% of its total electricity usage with renewable sources.
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Dark Fiber and Infrastructure (DF&I) as deployed a new fibre route between Ashburn, VA and Linthicum Heights, MD.
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Mox Networks has promoted one of its VPs, Allen Meeks, to be COO.
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DartPoints has unveiled a solution suite comprising cloud, interconnection, colocation, and managed services that it has packaged for enterprises, carriers, and cloud and content providers.
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Speaking at the Huawei webinar "5Grows Together: Innovation for a 5Gigaverse Society" on 13 January, Daisy Zhu, VP of wireless marketing, outlined how 5G is rapidly on the rise around the world, growing to over half a billion users since mobile operators started launching the technology two and a half years ago.
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Analysis from GlobalData claims that initial public offerings (IPOs) in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) space increased 72% last year when compared to 2020.
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Vodafone will work with IntelCorp and other silicon vendors to design its own chipsets in OpenRAN technology.
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T-Mobile will fire corporate employees who are not full vaccinated against Covid-19 by April 2, the company announced in an internal memo.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued an order revoking China Unicom Americas authority to provide telecoms services in the US.
