North America
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Social media app TikTok has said it will fight an order by the Canadian government to cease operations in the country over national security concerns. -
Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Sumitomo Electric Industries will manufacture semiconductors for 5G base stations in New Jersey, US, from September.
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Sarah McComb, co-founder and president of the Women’s Tech Forum – a non-profit focused on the advancement and promotion of women in the cloud, data centre and telecom space – reflects on the pandemic’s effect on women and how we can move forward
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From monetising traffic to international regulations, Gareth Willmer examines the road ahead for IoT and the advances on the horizon
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As global migration and displacement continues to rise, Armando Samayoa, Télécoms Sans Frontières’ representative for the Americas and the Caribbean, shares how the organisation is supporting those affected
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In the past, SLAs were based on voice, but mobility today requires a different approach. Chuck Girt, CTO, Everstream, explains the implications for fibre providers
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Global consulting firm Accenture has acquired CS Technology to boost its cloud infrastructure engineering capabilities, including cloud planning, critical facilities design and data centre technologies.
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Cloud data storage firm Pavilion Data Systems has appointed Dario Zamarian as its new chief executive officer.
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Orange, a major investor in over 40 submarine cables, has reinforced its global connectivity and resilience through two game-changing trans-Atlantic submarine cables: Dunant and Amitié
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Season 2, episode 22 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and deputy editor Natalie Bannerman.
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Investment and commercial real estate firm Legacy Investing has sealed an agreement with Zayo to provide interconnection services at the T5@Minneapolis data centre.
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AT&T is selling the network cloud on which it runs its 186 million mobile customers to Microsoft, for an undisclosed price.
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All-fibre connectivity provider Lightpath has extended its network in New York, bringing new connectivity options to businesses in Queens.
