North America
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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. -
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.
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Italian cloud and data centre operator Aruba S.p.A has unveiled its €300 million hyperscale data centre campus in Rome.
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Google has started construction on two new data centres in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as part of a $2 billion investment that will create 200 jobs.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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Veon has sold its operations in the eastern European nation of Georgia to its former local partner for just US$45 million.
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Ocean Networks has been selected by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH)to conduct research on fibre optic cable routing and site locations for new cable landing stations.
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As Canada finally followed its Five Eyes allies in banning Huawei and ZTE equipment, diverse supply chains become essential to ensure telcos are not reliant on a small handful of operators.
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Verizon has pledged an additional $149 million to Florida to meet increasing demands on its network.
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Texas carrier Logix Fiber Networks plans to speed up network build following private equity investment of US$100 million.
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Rogers Communications remains defiant in its pursuit to acquire rival operator Shaw Communications despite opposition from Canada’s Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell.
