North America
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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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ZenFi Networks is now part of BAI Communications following a deal agreed in July 2022.
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Satellite company OneWeb has partnered with Greenland’s largest telecoms company, Tusass, to bring connectivity to the island – the world’s largest.
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Harbor Link has begun construction on a new fibre optic infrastructure build connecting Alexandria to Ashburn, Virginia.
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The Canadian government is trying to block Rogers Communications’ attempt to buy rival Shaw Communications ahead of negotiations with the country’s Competition Commissioner.
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Customers of FirstLight in 13,000 North America locations can now connect with DE-CIX New York at 325 Hudson Street (pictured).
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Three companies, in Europe, the US and Japan, have formally created the company they hope will build the first Arctic cable.
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Data centre managers are facing profound difficulties. Aruba’s Giancarlo Giacomello talks to Saf Malik about how he meets these challenges proactively and trends to watch for
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DataBank has announced the opening of its latest Salt Lake City data centre, SLC6 – Granite Point.
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Zayo is strengthening its infrastructure between the US and Mexico, with an extension to the Texas border cities of McAllen and Laredo.
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DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data centre and cloud marketplace in Hawaii has begun construction to expand its data centre campus in Honolulu.
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AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a US$23 million fine after attempting to bribe a politician in the state.
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Liberty Broadband’s Alaskan operation, GCI, is expanding its fibre operations in the Arctic state with the aid of US$73 million in government grants.
