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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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Cloud data management vendor Cohesity has appointed Kevin Delane as its new global chief revenue officer.
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Equinix, Inc. has won a contract to host the gaming platform operated by i3D.net on Platform Equinix.
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AT&T and NTT, two of the biggest carriers in the world, have joined the move to Microsoft’s killer app, Operator Connect, as a way of delivering voice calls for enterprises.
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TeleGeography has found that global internet bandwidth increased by 29% in 2021, bringing it back to "normal" levels compared to 2020's COVID-driven levels of 34%.
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will open a $1.9 billion programme to reimburse mostly rural telecoms carriers for removing network equipment from Chinese companies.
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Lightpath Fiber Networks has added dual points-of-entry, dual electronics and enhanced backhaul options to boost its presence at NJFX.
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Ericsson's Bhutan deal; EA's winning buy; GTT chapter 2.0 and 5G speeds in Europe
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Orange has landed its transatlantic 6,600km Amitié subsea cable on a beach in the commune of Le Porge, near Bordeaux on the Gironde coast.
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is back home in China, 34 months after she was arrested at Canada’s Vancouver airport on a US warrant to extradite her on charges of fraud.
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Swedish fibre player Hexatronic has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Data Centre Systems (DCS) in the US.
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MEF has launched a comprehensive set of new APIs, services, and programs in response to market demand to accelerate the implementation of MEF Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today.
