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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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Fujitsu and a company working with the International Space Station have been named as among the first users of Quantum Origin, what’s claimed to be the world’s first commercial product built using quantum computers.
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AI software-as-a-service provider Actifai has announced it has teamed with regional telco Cincinnati Bell to drive subscriber growth.
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Stephanie Gilbert has retired from AT&T after 28 years, most recently as area VP and general manager for wholesale sales in the Greater Philadelphia area.
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Telecom Italia’s largest investor Vivendi could be open to a deal that sees the telco become controlled by the state.
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The latest opponent to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm is a powerful agency of the US government.
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China Telecom must cease all operations in the US by early January, after it lost a bid to appeal against revocation of its licence.
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AWS has announced a WAN network service that will make it easier to connect geographically complex networks to the cloud.
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Proximus is reportedly contemplating selling a minority stake in its subsidiary TeleSign by merging it with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
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Zayo Group Holdings is boosting its network in the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington with a 400G upgrade and new product offer.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Canadian infrastructure company BAI Communications has bought Vilicom, a UK-based private network supplier.
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Telia Carrier has launched a point of presence (PoP) at Digital Realty’s campus in Richardson, Texas.
