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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.
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Prime Data Centers is ploughing “up to $1 billion” into a 750,000-plus sq ft Chicago data centre campus that will provide up to 150MW of capacity.
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Intel will this Friday break ground on two new chip fabs in Arizona, worth $20 billion, to serve the growing needs of the PC, server, mobile and data centre industries.
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Fivetran is acquiring data replication firm HVR in a deal valued at $700 million and has announced a $565 million Series D funding round.
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The use of PUE in measuring data centre efficiency has been called into question by Cundall, the international multi-disciplinary consultancy that has delivered a portfolio of green buildings, including the Facebook Odense Data Centre.
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AT&T has teamed up with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to explore and develop 5G and edge computing-based maritime solutions primarily for national defence and homeland security.
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Vodafone Group Plc and the International Telecommunication Union are to address the global digital divide through a new working group.
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American Tower has launched its Data Center Channel Partner Program, to expand its market reach for its colocation and carrier-neutral data centres.
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Quantum satellite start-up Arqit has signed a deal with Juniper Networks to explore network security technology.
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Martijn Blanken, formerly of Telstra, has become the new CEO of what was the infrastructure division of GTT Communications.
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Geneva, Switzerland – 16 September, 2021, Huawei became a founding member of the Equipment Vendor Program (EVP) of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), in an effort to actively improve global Internet security.
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Fibre network firm MOX Networks and QTS Realty Trust are partnering to enhance connectivity opportunities for carriers, enterprises, hyperscalers and wireless providers in the new QTS data centre campus in Hillsboro, Oregon.
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Colt Group has committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2030, across all its operations.
