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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.
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Major satellite operators have confirmed new reach for their coverage over recent days, which will benefit the industrial and logistics sectors, while claiming a world first for IoT connectivity.
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Frontier Communications, the US company that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, says it has added 45,000 fibre broadband customers in a single quarter.
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Enterprise video conferencing provider Pexip has turned to Equinix to solve its multicloud connectivity needs and scale its global business, which saw growth of seven times its traffic peak in 2020.
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Strategic Wireless has acquired 11 cell towers and an easement, located in various regions across the US, for an undisclosed sum.
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More than two-thirds of malware downloads came from cloud applications in 2021 according to research from Netskope.
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GI Partners has secured a $389 million loan from Goldman Sachs to refinance One Wilshire, one of the largest internet exchanges in the world and the most interconnected terrestrial facility in the Western US.
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Stack Infrastructure has confirmed it will develop a new 216MW campus in Ashburn, VA, set on a new 80-acre site in Loudoun.
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T-Mobile US achieved its highest ever post-paid net customer additions and post-paid account net additions for full-year 2021.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from Subsea cables to roaming charges and satellite launches.
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Adtran's stockholders have approved the ongoing $1.2 billion merger with Adva Optical Networking SE, by an overwhelming majority.
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SK Telecom and Qualcomm have discussed the possibility of working together at CES 2022.
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Zayo has hired Lynn Tinney, formerly of Cisco and Brightcove, as its senior VP for channels and partnerships.
