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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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Dish's Boost Mobile it to acquire Los Angeles-based MVNO Gen Mobile for an undisclosed sum.
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Frontier Communications (Frontier) has inked a multi-year partnership with Red Ventures to build out its digital capabilities as Frontier expands its fibre footprint.
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A company planning to build quantum-based symmetric encryption for the cloud has succeeded in a reverse takeover that will value it at US$1.4 billion.
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There’s a lot going on in space today: new satellite mega-constellations are springing up in multiple orbits, high-throughput satellites (HTS) have been launched into the skies, and SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon are planning huge rollouts of satellites in a low Earth orbit (LEO) over the coming years.
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Novva Data Centers has acquired a Colorado Springs data centre campus for $38.5 million and plans to spend over $200 million on expanding it.
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DC BLOX has appointed John Dumler as its vice president of data centre design and engineering.
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DE-CIX had added its fifth internet exchange in the US, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Yahoo is due to be back as a brand today, with the expected completion of private equity group Apollo’s acquisition of the operation from Verizon.
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Zayo has appointed angel investor and former AWS exec Ginna Raahauge, as its chief information officer.
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Verizon's enterprise customers can now tap an on-premise, private edge compute solution that enables the ultra-low latency needed to deploy real-time applications.
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Amid a wave of local investments and upcoming network projects, Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon speaks to Natalie Bannerman about the new tech that it is making it happen – and how they got it wrong on 5G
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Following the well-publicised CDN outages of 2021, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores how we can future-proof this infrastructure to avoid such events happening again
