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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Reconnecting Tonga; rebuffing KKR; digital investments down under; and BDx's Braham Singh
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I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment manager, has made an investment in 1NCE, a connectivity and software IoT provider, for a global flat rate.
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AT&T and Verizon have released their most recent financial results, covering the full year 2021 and fourth quarter.
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Syniverse is collaborating with AT&T on the development of a solution that preserves inbound voice roaming after AT&T phases out its 3G network in February.
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Harbor Link has revealed it has broken ground on the construction of a new 60-mile, diverse conduit route set to enhance connectivity between Baltimore, Maryland, Washington DC and Northern Virginia.
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Telecoms fraud expert Jaime Zetterstrom has joined Somos, the company that runs North American numbering.
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Ericsson, IBM and Jio have all released their latest financial results in recent days, kicking off the latest reporting season.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum company that Zayo founder Dan Caruso led for a time, has set up a partnership to make real-life quantum computing solutions.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract in a move that will bring speeds of up to 100Gbps to the legacy network operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Developer and operator Prime Data Centers, is to develop a four-storey data centre in Silicon Valley.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from iSIMs to aviation dramas.
