North America
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Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands. -
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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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American Tower has closed its acquisition of colo provider DataSite, bolstering its presence in the edge data centre space.
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The first quantum network; the last landline; strategy updates from Orange; and Exa's Martijn Blanken
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US operator Frontier Communications has struck a wholesale deal with AT&T to deliver services to enterprise customers outside AT&T’s current footprint.
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Ribbon is the latest company to be announced as part of Microsoft’s recently introduced Operator Connect programme for Microsoft Teams.
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Former US telecoms regulator Mike O’Rielly has criticised the Biden administration for failing to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the body.
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DataBank has acquired a 34-acre plot in Orangeburg, New York, where it plans to build a new campus.
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Nokia is launching a charging configurator microservice for its existing Nokia Converged Charging (NCC) solution.
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Peter Hopper has taken on the role of managing director of DigitalBridge.
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Frontier Communications has hired an executive with deep experience of retail and bankruptcy as its chief digital information officer.
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To support new, mission-critical applications associated with cloud architectures, 5G and Industry 4.0, IP networks must be trusted to provide guaranteed high-performance and secure connectivity.
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The company that last year bought Frontier Communications’ operations in the north-west of the US has borrowed US$350 million to expand its fibre networks.
