North America
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New images of Elon Musk’s xAI data centre reveal a major expansion of on-site gas turbines, which campaigners claim violates environmental regulations. -
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled a major expansion to its Aruba Networking Central platform, offering new deployment models aimed at organisations with strict data control, security, and compliance requirements.
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Microsoft might be scaling back on several data centre projects, but rival Meta is reportedly steaming ahead with plans to spend almost $1 billion on a new project in Wisconsin.
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Investment giant Blackstone is leading a CDN$7 billion (USD$4.9 billion) equity investment in Canadian telecom firm Rogers Communications as it looks to reduce its debt.
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Arelion has launched three new fully diverse mesh routes in Texas, forming a ring from Austin to Dallas, to Houston and back to Austin, with additional capacity between Austin, San Antonio and El Paso.
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Cerebras Systems, makers of some of the largest chips in the world, has launched six new data centres to power its growing AI inference service.
Forthcoming events
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Equinix has confirmed plans to build an International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Montreal.
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Aruba has bolstered its renewable energy capacity with the acquisition of two new hydroelectric power plants in Bergamo, near Ponte San Pietro.
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EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure will expand its presence in Northern Virginia via a partnership with Penzance, a Washington DC-based real estate developer.
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CyrusOne and Aruba have each successfully adhered to terms of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP).
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Optical networking company Adtran has delivered data at 800Gbps over a New York state educational network.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is expanding its connected edge-to-cloud offering with the acquisition of Athonet, a private mobile network technology provider.
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North American data centre leasing reached record levels and vacancy fell to a record low in 2022 according to CBRE.
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The North Pole has now got fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) thanks to Alaska Communications, but not the North Pole that everyone understands by the term.
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The island of Bermuda is to get a new mobile competitor, that will be fully cloud-based.
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The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) in the Caribbean has started the process to build a national fibre ring that will link with the sole subsea cable that connects it to neighbouring islands and to the US and South America.
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The new 15,840km Southern Cross Next cable from Australia and New Zealand to the US, is now offering Ethernet services at 400Gbps.
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Lumos is making a US$100 million investment in South Carolina’s Richland and Lexington Counties, to bring ultra-high-speed 100% fibre optic services across the greater Columbia area.
