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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Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point of presence (PoP) at the Connect Des Moines Data Center.
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Satellite buys; presidential visits; and Capgemini's Shamik Mishra
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New satellite internet concepts are moving ahead but are some types of companies better positioned to succeed in this growing market than others? Chris Daehnick, associate partner at McKinsey & Company, explores the prospects
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Satellite operator Intelsat has demonstrated 5G mobile from space, working with a German research institute and a US antenna specialist.
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Washington law firm Wiley has appointed Jennifer Hindin as co-chair of its telecoms, media and technology (TMT) practice.
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William Natta, communication officer at Télécoms Sans Frontières, outlines the importance of connectivity in education – and how the NGO supports children in crisis
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AT&T has announced the expansion of its global managed Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) portfolio.
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Colohouse has acquired Quonix in a deal that includes its Data102, and Turnkey Internet data centres.
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Enterprise colo provider DataBank is boosting its presence in Data Center Alley with a new facility it said will double its colocation footprint in the area.
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US satellite company Viasat is to buy its UK-based rival Inmarsat for US$7.3 billion, the companies announced this morning.
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To keep up with exploding demand for bandwidth, broadband operators are spending significant amounts of money on their networks. Of course, they want to see a healthy return on that investment, but with traffic growing many times faster than revenues, that can be a challenge. How do you close the gap? Where do you invest to increase revenues or reduce cost
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A former Google employee who led staff protests about alleged sexual assaults is to join the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as its artificial intelligence (AI) expert.
