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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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NTT is claiming a world first with the launch of the first globally available private LTE/5G Network-as-a-Service platform.
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DigitalBridge Group (DigitalBridge) through its subsidary DigitalBridge Investment Management, is to acquire a majority stake in Vertical Bridge for an undisclosed sum.
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SpaceX is to buy Swarm Technologies, the company that has started a nanosatellite-based internet of things (IoT) business.
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Aligned is expanding its presence in the Salt Lake City metro market area with the development of its third build-to-suit data centre campus.
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Canadian lawyers for Huawei’s CFO have called for extradition proceedings to be halted, complaining about “widespread misconduct”.
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Infovista is to sell its Ipanema SD-WAN business to Extreme Networks for an undisclosed sum.
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AT&T confirms the sale of its Crunchyroll anime business to Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) through its subsidiary Funimation Global Group.
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Dish Network reported total revenue of US$4.49 billion for the quarter ending June 30, compared to $3.19 billion for the corresponding period in 2020.
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Eloise Walker and Catherine Robins from Pinsent Masons, explain how changes to the international tax system will affect telecoms and tech multinationals.
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Nautilus Data Technologies is raising $50 million to aid its data centre growth on land and water.
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Telesat has struck a C$109 million agreement with the Government of Ontario to use its LEO network, Telesat Lightspeed, to delivery connectivity in the province.
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US data centre services firm Flexential has entered into a second facility sale-leaseback agreement with Legacy Investing and Invesco Real Estate.
