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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SoftBank is raising 30 billion yen (US$263 million) to fund its work in high-altitude mobile services from the stratosphere.
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Capacity shares five key stories make headlines around the world today.
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DE-CIX has confirmed just how much data passed through its exchanges last year – and it comes as little surprise that the figure has set a new record.
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Rounding up the latest data centre industry developments from around the world.
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The 5G revolution may have started to arrive on Europe’s shores in terms of licences, network infrastructure, devices and services – but I can’t be alone in feeling a sense of déjà vu when reflecting on the current state of the rollout.
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Kicking off the quarterly financials, Tata Communications and Syniverse have published their latest results over the last 24 hours.
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The appetite for private-equity investment is seeing a new peak with both the private-equity owners of Zayo setting record targets for their latest funds.
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T5 Data Centers is planning a 140-acre, 200 MW government and enterprise cloud data centre campus in Augusta, Georgia.
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CyrusOne has sold four of its data centres in the Houston, Texas, metro area to the DigitalBridge-owned DataBank for $670 million.
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The US aviation industry has warned of the "catastrophic" consequences of 5G network deployments using C-Band spectrum.
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New York-based tower company Tillman Infrastructure has appointed Suruchi Ahuja as CEO.
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The US state of Utah has a (relatively) new, high bandwidth dark fibre connection – and a new data centre model – with a little help from Zayo.
