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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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Blocked from a growing number of telecoms networks, Huawei is changing its business model to focus on new revenue streams. Saf Malik reports.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Earlier this week, US hedge fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) launched a €10.8 billion ($12 billion) takeover bid for Telecom Italia (TIM) in an attempt to take the company private.
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EllaLink's new connection and KKR's latest spending spree
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Mavenir's 4G Open RAN small cell for outdoor deployments is now commercially available.
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PCCW Global has adopted the culture of Console Connect, the platform it acquired in 2017, CEO Marc Halbfinger tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited achieved a 9.5% return for its investors in the first nine months of the year, exceeding its stated target by 0.5%.
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A European team of scientists have bounced a LoRa (long-range) message off of the moon for the first time.
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KKR is among a few companies contemplating bidding for data centre company Global Switch Holdings.
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Rogers Communications (Rogers) met with Canadian telecoms regulator CRTC to make its case for its $26 billion merger with Shaw Communications (Shaw).
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Fibre and data centre specialist Bluebird Network has delivered a new, carrier-grade fibre internet connection to the SubTropolis Technology Center (STC), the world’s largest underground business complex, located in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Research by Inmarsat has found that despite the accelerating speed of Internet of Things (IoT) adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic, poor or unreliable connectivity is a key barrier.
