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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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The Ohio Internet Exchange (Ohio IX) has deployed new network switch platforms from Arista Networks.
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The broadband access equipment market surged to $3.9 billion in Q3, 2021 according to a report from Dell'Oro Group.
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Mary Clark, former chief marketing officer of Syniverse and then Synchronoss, has been appointed CMO of Brivo, a cloud-based building technology company.
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Telstra is expanding its network infrastructure in the US by increasing its footprint at a primary data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, by almost a third.
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Ookla, the company that runs the Speedtest.net service that fills troubled internet users with despair, has acquired RootMetrics, which collects mobile network performance data.
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Global investment firm IPI Partners (IPI) confirms that one of its affiliates has acquired a carrier hotel and data centre in the Western US region, for an undisclosed sum.
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Capacity shares five things key stories from around the world making headlines today.
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Boomi, the Cloud technology, connectivity and automation provider, confirms that its board of directors has appointed David Meredith as chief executive officer.
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H5 Data Centres has announced the acquisition of 925 Dalton Avenue, a 107,000 square-foot data centre in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Cologix and Console Connect by PCCW Global confirm that the Console Connect Software Defined Interconnection platform is now available at Cologix’s MTL7 data centre in Montréal through a new point of presence (PoP).
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Next generation networks are tipped to transform industry and gaming – but when it comes to sport, 5G, private networks and enhanced broadcasting tech are creating new business cases for network operators. Melanie Mingas explains why it’s a match made in heaven
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DDoS attacks are on the rise – and telcos are being targeted in new ways. Explaining the latest data from Black Lotus Labs, Mark Dehus tells Melanie Mingas what it means
