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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Project Kuiper launch dates; telco negotiation tactics; and GSMA's Stephanie Lynch-Habib
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Boeing Co’s application to launch and operate 147 satellites to provide high-speed broadband internet access.
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XConnect, a London-based numbering specialist, has launched a service that can save carriers dollars per minute in wrongly identified calls.
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IBM has completed the spin-off of Kyndryl with the business trading on the New York Stock Exchange, from today.
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China’s information ministry has said that it “resolutely opposes” The US’ decision to revoke China Telecom’s license to operate in the USA.
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Cloud company Platform9 has hired Bhaskar Gorti, formerly of Oracle and Nokia, as CEO.
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Global spending on cloud services reached a new record in Q3 2021, to hit US$49.4 billion, however the impact of the global chip shortage on the data centre industry is "imminent".
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Canadian-owned data centre provider eStruxture is adding a second facility in Calgary, planned for the second half of 2022.
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fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty – aka 1547 – has acquired four new facilities for an undisclosed sum from one its JV partners, CIM Group.
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SpaceX has formally completed its takeover of nano-satellite company Swarm, whose co-founders have taken senior positions with Elon Musk’s operation.
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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Netflix has entered the mobile gaming space with the launch of five free games on Android devices.
