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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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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is boosting efforts to improve energy efficiency among the country’s data centres via its Energy Star programme.
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Data centre colocation company Cyxtera and multicloud computing firm Nutanix have unveiled a partnership to launch a Federal Innovation Lab.
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has made her final appearance in a Canadian court in her extradition battle with the US.
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Lumen has reported a 14% increase in DDoS attacks in Q2 of 2021, compared to the previous quarter.
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ST Engineering iDirect and Gilat Telecom have completed the remote installation and commissioning of a mobile backhaul network in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Alaska Communications has partnered the University of Michigan to develop earthquake monitoring solutions.
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Infinera has made four new executive appointments to strengthen its executive leadership team.
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NTT Ltd is developing its seventh US data centre campus in Phoenix, Arizona, a 240MW capacity site with data centre cores and shells built to LEED specifications.
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Qualcomm has unveiled a drone platform that offers 5G and AI capabilities in a bid to boost the development of commercial, enterprise and industrial drones.
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There was much excitement a couple of years ago when the first 5G service was launched. 5G delivers a real step change in connectivity, capacity and latency that promises both faster download speeds and a host of new low-latency and machine-to-machine applications.
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Syniverse has entered into a definitive merger agreement with M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp (MBAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
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The telecoms industry’s global aid organisation has already dispatched a team to Haiti, following Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake, as Tropical Storm Grace threatens worse devastation.
