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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MTN Uganda and IHS Holding have both announced further details for their respective initial public offerings (IPO).
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Pension investor TIAA has backed Arcadian Infracom's new, long-haul fibre backbone with "up to US$140 million".
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Avalon Campus gets bigger. Construction of Avalon 3, the new hyper-connected and sustainable Data Center in Milan, is under way.
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DigitalBridge Group has acquired the 24MW CA22 facility for $539 million, expanding its Vantage SDC (Stabilized Data Centers) platform.
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Google’s former Moonshot project, Loon, has transferred its patents to SoftBank for the Japanese company’s own balloon-based base station work.
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Paulina Molnar is the interim chief financial officer at Rogers Communications, following the departure of Tony Staffieri, effective Wednesday.
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Zayo Group has announced the final construction phase for three new 100% underground long-haul fibre routes connecting key US data and colocation markets.
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French satellite company Eutelsat has officially rejected a $3.2 billion takeover bid from billionaire telecoms investor Patrick Drahi.
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Neeloy Bhattacharyya, Dell Technologies' former director of systems engineering, has landed a new role as VP of customer experience at Kaloom.
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More than six million US households have enrolled in a government scheme to share US$3.2 billion in broadband subsidy.
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IoT network carrier 1NCE has raised $50 million in capital from a raft of investors including Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
