North America
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Nebius has launched its first GPU cluster as the AI infrastructure continues its North American expansion.
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DE-CIX has launched its sixth US-based Internet Exchange in Houston.
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The US Department of Defence has extended its contract with Verizon to use its secure Global Network Solutions (GNS) in a deal worth more than $98 million.
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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Aligned Data Centers has confirmed it will construct a third hyperscale data centre at its existing campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, called SLC-03.
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Rogers Communications’ plan to buy rival Shaw Communications faces more uncertainty following continued opposition from Canada’s antitrust regulator.
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The international division of Canadian telco Telus will be selling business services to enterprises if its agreed C$2.3 billion bid for LifeWorks goes ahead.
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Everstream has announced plans to quadruple its investment across Columbus, Ohio.
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NTT Ltd has bought land in Prince William County, Gainesville, Virginia from Lerner Enterprises, one of Washington DC’s largest private developers, to build a new large-scale data centre campus.
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Brightspeed has announced plans to deliver over 60,000 new fibre passings by the end of 2023, as part of the first phase of its fibre network build in Virginia.