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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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The FCC has revealed it has granted 20 additional 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses to Alaskan communities.
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The value of the global cloud market increased 37% in Q3 compared to the same quarter last year, reaching values of US$45.4 billion.
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Verizon is poised to become the anchor tenant of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network, with a deal to use it for 4G and 5G distribution.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from geopolitics in TMT to sustainability in Poland.
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IBM has published the results of its latest global study on cloud transformation which has found that there is drastic shift in business needs positioning hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Samsung Electronics (Samsung) and Ciena have entered into an agreement to deliver 5G network solutions.
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Jessica Rosenworcel’s first task after her official nomination as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been to implement a Trump-era policy to ban China Telecom from the US.
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NJFX confirms that Canadian telco Eastlink has deployed its fibre optic network ring at its NJFX cable landing station (CLS) campus.
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Telesat has announced two new leadership appointments with Glenn Katz joining as chief commercial officer (CCO) and Tom Eaton promoted to president of Telesat Government Solutions.
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President Joe Biden is due to nominate Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to serve another term and appoint her as permanent chair.
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Digital Realty has entered into two new partnerships with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund that will see it take PlatformDIGITAL to new African markets.
