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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OTTs, 2022 trends and BT's Andrew Lord on QKD and hollow core fibre
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CTI Towers, a provider of wireless towers in the US, has named telecoms industry veteran David Bacino, as its interim CEO.
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In news that will surprise almost nobody, Meta has confirmed it will continue to use AWS as its long-term cloud provider as it scales R&D, drives operational efficiency... and looks for more acquisitions.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Tests on the use of Wi-Fi 6E in residential environments have proven the benefits of using enabled devices over the 6GHz band rather than 5GHz.
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Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) revenue generated in North America will reach $15 billion by 2026 up from $3.7 billion in 2021, according to a study from Juniper Research.
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The serviceable addressable market (SAM) for global satellite broadband over geostationary (GEO), medium earth orbit (MEO), and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites will stand at 330 million homes by 2026.
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The merged quantum computing company bringing together Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum will be called Quantinuum, the two said yesterday.
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Predictions from Deloitte have revealed that the games console market will generate £60.6 billion globally and the wearable market will ship 320 million devices worldwide.
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Sustainability is often a focused on operations, but what if construction could be greener, too? Saf Malik reports
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Emerging quantum company SpeQtral has announced that it has successfully closed an $8.3 million financing led by Xora Innovation.
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Windstream Wholesale's advanced optical solutions are now available from NTT’s data centre campus in Sacramento, as part of Windstream's new Sacramento-to-Portland route.
