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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Fourteen months and more than $6 billion later, TracFone Wireless is now part of Verizon.
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New standards are required to stimulate the deployment of "cyber-physical systems" in agtech to feed a fast-growing global population.
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Telesat has announced it is now a public company and will begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (NASDAQ) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).
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GTT Communications (GTT) has deployed a new centralised platform that supports its Access Services Request (ASR) order management and ticketing resolution system.
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Verizon and America Movil's TracFone Wireless are a step closer to closing on their merger after gaining another regulatory approval.
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Subspace, the dedicated network for real-time services, has launched its global private network for real-time applications.
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Digital Fortress has launched a new, redundant fibre network connecting its Richmond campus (pictured) in Virginia to Ashburn and Virginia Beach.
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DISH is to turn to Equinix for its interconnection requirements as it builds out the first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network in the US.
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AT&T and Microsoft have partnered to deliver a private preview of the first Azure Edge Zone in Atlanta.
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The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has launched a new project group that will broaden its focus to cover the access, broadband and service gateway technologies operators need to build and operate their fixed line networks.
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Telecoms was one of the three most targeted verticals in the latest quarterly DDoS report from Lumen as the threat landscape continued to evolve.
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Viasat has appointed Kevin Harkenrider as its new chief operating officer (COO).
