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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Capacity shares five key data economy stories to watch for today.
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Harrison Street has embarked on a new joint venture (JV), this time with American Real Estate Partners (AREP), and with Data Center Alley in crosshairs.
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Capacity shares the latest 5G spectrum news in the USA and Belgium.
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TIM's CEO tango; Colt's data centre drive; a cable called Medusa; and Host in Ireland's Garry Connolly
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US cable company and telco Comcast says it has taken the next step in its ambition to upgrade its customers to 10Gbps technology.
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Capacity shares the key appointments in the telecoms industry over the last few weeks.
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Comviva has announced it will collaborate with IBM to deliver its next-generation BlueMarble Solution on the IBM Cloud for telecoms.
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Despite rising Covid-19 infection rates around the world, DE-CIX says its infrastructure remains well prepared for the new wave of the pandemic.
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Zayo Group has acquired QOS Networks to bolster its edge and SD-WAN capabilities.
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AFR-IX has confirmed plans to build a new subsea cable system called Medusa for approximately €326 million.
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ColoHouse has snapped up cloud, bare metal, and data centre provider Steadfast, inclusive of three colocation facilities, enterprise-class cloud and hosting solutions.
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Capacity shares the key appointments in the telecoms industry over the last few days.
