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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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Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is the official charity partner for International Telecoms Week in 2021.
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Network integrator STL, has partnered Facebook Connectivity to design and develop 4G and 5G radio products.
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is due to appear in court tomorrow in Canada for the start of a long extradition trial.
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Radware's telecoms customers saw attack volumes amounting to 18TB per month in Q2, with an average of 600 attacks every 30 days.
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AT&T and TPG have closed the deal to establish DirecTV, the new standalone entity that will own and operate DirecTV, AT&T TV and U-verse video services.
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Vantage Data Centers says the company will achieve net zero carbon emissions globally by 2030.
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US fibre-based carrier FirstDigital Telecom has received a US$200 million investment from Apollo Global Management.
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Despite its size and leading cloud market position, Amazon Web Services managed a 37% annual growth rate in its latest quarterly results, helping to increase its overall share of the market to boot.
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Digital Realty has reported an annual 10% increase in revenues to $1.1 billion for the second quarter and announced the building of its second data centre in Seoul, South Korea.
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Canada has closed its spectrum auction for the 3500 MHz band, raising C$8.9 billion (US$7.2 billion), 80% of which came from its three biggest telcos.
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Total international bandwidth more than quadrupled between 2016 and 2020, to exceed 2 Pbps.
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Lumen Technologies is to use Google’s Dunant transatlantic subsea cable to connect Virginia to France.
