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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.
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EdgeConneX has agreed to acquire Israel-based Global Data Center (GDC), in a deal that includes underground facilities in Herzliya and Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.
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Facebook and Amazon have sought US government approval to operate a new subsea cable connecting Philippines and California.
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Subsea cable owner RTI Connectivity (RTI) and global convergence solutions company InterGlobix, have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement.
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Satellite operators Telesat has secured C$1.44 billion in investment from the Canadian government, which it said represents a "major milestone" towards completing the financing of Telesat Lightspeed.
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Verizon is expanding its global automation capabilities in collaboration with data centre giant Equinix.
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Rogers comes out top in a survey of Canada’s 5G experience, but Telus users have the best mobile video experience.
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Qlik has extended its cloud analytics platform with the acquisition of NodeGraph, a metadata management solution that will help drive Qlik's “explainable BI” effort - to achieve a “higher level of visibility and trust in data”, it said.
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Mike Michalik, CTO at Evoque Data Center Solutions explains what IT managers are looking for from their cloud providers – and what it means for the future of hybrid
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The US regulator has named the cities of Boston and Raleigh as innovation zones for the development of 5G and open RAN technologies.
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Cradlepoint confirms the launch of its new partner engagement platform called Cascade.
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Deutsche Telekom has raised its profit outlook for the second time this year in is Q2 financial results.
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Cloud services provider Cloudreach has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services to aid its geographical expansion outside the US.
