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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A private equity company has bought TeleGeography, the US company that publishes the industry’s interactive submarine cable map.
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Vexus Fiber has announced plans to build a Fibre to the Home (FTTH) network in Laredo, Texas.
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Netrality Data Centres (Netrality) confirms the acquisition of 7801 Nieman Road in Shawnee, Kansas, with plans for a new data centre facility.
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Iron Mountain has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ITRenew, a provider of data centre lifecycle management solutions, for $925 million.
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Zayo Group (Zayo) has announced the investment and expansion of network infrastructure in Toronto, Ontario.
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Colt Group has announced it has gained a Gold rating from sustainability rating provider EcoVadis for its environment, social and governance (ESG) performance and a B rating from the Climate Disclosure Project (CDP) for company environmental performance.
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IBM has unveiled its IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center, a digital front door to a vast array of tools, training, resources and ecosystem partners.
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The United States Senate has voted by a large majority to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the Federal Communications Commission for the next five years.
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Cambium Networks, a wireless networking solutions provider, confirms the availability of a 5G-based fixed wireless access solution.
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Schneider Electric has released what its describes as a 'comprehensive novel framework' for environmentally sustainable data centres.
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Windstream Wholesale confirms that it will connect its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the EdgeConneX data centre in Tempe, Arizona.
