North America
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Donald J. Trump has 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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Following the acquisition of zColo and its investment in EdgePresence, DataBank’s Raul Martynek talks to Natalie Bannerman about the evolution of edge
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Season 3, episode 2 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Natalie Bannerman and this week's guest, Colm Shorten, senior director of data centres at JLL.
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Perry Offutt, the former North American MD of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, has joined H.R.L Morrison & Co.
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AT&T has signed a wholesale deal with OneWeb to use its satellites to deliver services to poorly covered parts of the US.
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Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V (MIP), an infrastructure fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management (MAM), has completed the acquisition of Cincinnati Bell for $2.9 billion.
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5G security firm Exium is collaborating with IBM to help firms securely adopt an edge AI strategy.
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Six urban clusters in Texas are among the 10 places in the US for availability of 5G, according to a new survey.
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It’s nearly two years since Global Cloud Xchange was separated from its Indian owner, and a year since Carl Grivner took over as the new CEO. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks him how it’s going
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The industry is moving to the cloud, says Adolfo Hernandez of AWS, which is working with a raft of operators to move away from traditional infrastructure. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Whether it’s smart cities or Industry 4.0, Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, explains why seamless onboarding and convergence are key to success
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Canada needs more competition to drive prices down and expand coverage. Annie Turner explores the options on the table
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In many earthquake-prone countries, base isolation is used widely; but it is not used so much in the US. Now a Silicon Valley data centre has combined it with other techniques to offer a new level of protection. Melanie Mingas looks at whether others could follow the lead
