North America
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Donald J. Trump has all but secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President. -
Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands.
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Colt Group has committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2030, across all its operations.
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Breda Financial Corp (Breda) and Capital Investment & Asset Management Group (CIAM) have partnered with Ocean Networks Inc (ONI) to invest in the construction of the Caribbean Express (CX) subsea cable.
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DāSTOR has made its industry debut through the acquisition of four data centres.
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Google confirms that its Grace Hopper subsea cable had landed in Bude, Cornwall.
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phoenixNAP confirms that its flagship data centre in Phoenix, Arizona, is to become a strategic point of presence (PoP) for DE-CIX’s newest internet exchange, DE-CIX Phoenix.
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Palo Alto Networks confirms the launch of Prisma SASE, combining Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN into an integrated cloud-delivered service.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Catherine Hemingray, Global Account Director and Ljubica Draskic, Head of Sales and New Business Development from Smart CIC and they share their insight in connectivity, low latency routes and the products Smart CIC can offer.
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LightEdge, a provider of colocation, cloud and managed service solutions, has been acquired by private investment firm GI Partners.
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ColoHouse has acquired Lume Cloud to add private cloud, cloud backup and recovery and security services in 24 ColoHouse data centre locations globally.
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Neustar, once the company that ran the database of all of North America’s phone numbers, is being bought for US$3.1 billion in cash.
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DISH Network Corporation (DISH) has selected IBM to help automate the company’s first greenfield cloud-native 5G network in the US.
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Open RAN software company Parallel Wireless is expanding its R&D in centres in India, Israel, the US and the UK
