North America
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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. -
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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Italian cloud and data centre operator Aruba S.p.A has unveiled its €300 million hyperscale data centre campus in Rome.
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Google has started construction on two new data centres in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as part of a $2 billion investment that will create 200 jobs.
Forthcoming events
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GCI says it has made the final subsea fibre splice for its AU-Aleutians Fiber Project, which connects a string of islands south-west of Alaska.
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The US government is giving the Alaska Telephone Company US$33 million to expand fibre connectivity in rural south-east Alaska.
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T5 Data Centers will build a 54MW data centre campus at its Hillsboro, Oregon location, as part of a long-term lease and built-to-suit project with Flexential.
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Nokia is extending its industrial portfolio of the user equipment to facilitate private wireless network connectivity in North America.
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Virginia still has more hyperscale data centre capacity than both Europe and China, a new report from Synergy Research Group has revealed.
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IQ Fiber has activated the first portion of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Jacksonville.
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Exa Infrastructure has announced the appointment of Frank de Fremery as its head of data centres and colocation.
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Rogers Communications will invest C$10 billion into improving the reliability of its network, after one of its biggest network outages to date.
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Italian data centre company Aruba is building a 30MW data centre campus in Rome, due to be completed in the first quarter of 2023.
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This year will see Chinese and North American mobile operators at their peak for buying radio access network (RAN) equipment, says a report today.
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Emerging broadband service provider LiveOak Fiber has received a US$150 million investment from Infrared Capital Partners to build a fibre network in Glynn Country, Georgia and Okaloosa Country, Florida.
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Spark New Zealand has sold a 70% interest in its TowerCo business to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers) for $900 million.
