North America
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Here are some news stories from this week you might have missed.
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A joint venture between investment firm Harrison Street and AREP’s PowerHouse Data Centers has sold ABX-1, a 265,580-square-foot data centre in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Verizon and Geotab have been hit with a lawsuit alleging the pair infringed patented antenna technologies developed by Fractus.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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Telxius has teamed up with Orange, and Setar to create a new high-capacity subsea cable in the Caribbean.
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Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure solutions provider, has closed $150 million in secured debt financing with Macquarie Equipment Capital.
Forthcoming events
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Josh Snowhorn has revealed the location of his planned new Quantum Loophole data centre campus, and announced investment from part of the TPG group.
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Cox Communications has launched Cox Edge, a full-stack edge-cloud computing service.
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has successfully trialled technology to automatically onboard Wifi client devices to a residential Wi-Fi 6 network.
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Taking to the skies, the next company to be profiled in the series is SES Networks, who along with Amdocs, were the recipients of the Satellite Project of the Year Award.
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ATC Europe's new shareholder; Etisalat's commercial mmWave 5G plans; and OneWeb's crucial launch
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Macquarie Capital has formed a strategic partnership with and made an equity investment in Prime Data Centers, with the two now planning a $5 billion expansion drive in acquiring and developing additional data centres.
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Intel has broken up its data centre unit and appointed new heads to help the firm fight off the increasing challenge it faces in the data centre segment from the likes of AMD, Arm and Nvidia.
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AT&T has offloaded another business that it picked up when it bought Time-Warner — now WarnerMedia — for US$60 billion.
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Huawei’s intelligent cloud-network solution has passed the rigorous test administered by EANTC, an internationally recognised independent test centre.
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Windstream Wholesale has launched ICON, its intelligent converged optical network.
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Huawei has lost two court appeals within a few days that together set back its desire to return to supplying European and US telcos with its equipment.
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North American data centre services firm Cologix has acquired an interconnection facility from Zayo Group in Vancouver and is opening another data centre in Toronto.