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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DataVerge, which operates a carrier-neutral interconnection facility in Brooklyn, has hired Hunter Newby to join its board of directors.
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Communications infrastructure provider Bluebird Network has announced its intent to acquire the middle-mile fibre network assets from Missouri Telecom (MTI).
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1547 has partnered with investment management firm Harrison Street to buy Chase Tower in McAllen, Texas, one of the most important internet exchange locations for traffic between Texas and Mexico.
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Four leading English-speaking economies have aligned their strategies for secure mobile infrastructure, continuing from the 5G era into 6G.
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FirstLight has confirmed that it is building out its fibre broadband network in parts of Maine.
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Aruba has raised €500 million in funding for the expansion of its Global Cloud Data Center (GCDC) campus.
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Far North Fiber’s Ethan Berkowitz tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that Japanese, US and European businesses have teamed up to build the first cross-Arctic cable, which will cut latency between Europe and Japan by 100ms
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ZenFi Networks is now part of BAI Communications following a deal agreed in July 2022.
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Satellite company OneWeb has partnered with Greenland’s largest telecoms company, Tusass, to bring connectivity to the island – the world’s largest.
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Harbor Link has begun construction on a new fibre optic infrastructure build connecting Alexandria to Ashburn, Virginia.
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The Canadian government is trying to block Rogers Communications’ attempt to buy rival Shaw Communications ahead of negotiations with the country’s Competition Commissioner.
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Customers of FirstLight in 13,000 North America locations can now connect with DE-CIX New York at 325 Hudson Street (pictured).
