North America
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Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President.
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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.
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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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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Swarmio’s Vijai Karthigesu on how telcos can get a piece of the content gaming pie
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Nokia has paused its activities with the industry’s leading open RAN organisation because of threats that Washington could impose the same penalties to those on Huawei.
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QTS shareholders have voted to approve its acquisition by Blackstone, the global alternative asset manager with US$684 billion in AUM.
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Intel and Submer are to co-develop a solution they said will help accelerate industry standards for the adoption of immersion cooling.
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Adtran and Adva have announced plans to merge, creating a fibre networking company with combined revenue of US$1.2 billion.
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neutrality.one and SmartCIC have partnered to extend internet access and cloud-based connectivity to their customers using SD-WAN.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum computing company headed since last year by Zayo founder Dan Caruso, has appointed a specialist in initial public offerings (IPOs) as its CEO.
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Equinix and IBM have announced a partnership to develop hybrid cloud journeys.
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The US government has granted Huawei licences to buy microchips for car components, in the first sign of easing in the battle with the Chinese vendor.
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The newly independent Telia Carrier has expanded to Flexential’s Hillsboro 2 data centre in Oregon.
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This year The Global Carrier Awards return for a live ceremony in London, but who will be there? Here is the highly-anticipated 2021 shortlist
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DISH has joined the HomeGrid Forum, an industry alliance that brings together technology innovators, silicon vendors, system manufacturers, and service providers to promote G.hn, a globally recognised gigabit home networking technology based on ITU-T standards.