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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.
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Former computer company Honeywell has acquired a controlling stake in a UK-based quantum technology company.
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Microsoft has launched a new data centre region in Arizona, consisting of three facilities to support redundancy in the cloud services being delivered.
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In FY20, Oracle Corporation saw total revenues increase 4% year-over-year to reach $40.5 billion.
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A new satellite communications project is to use quantum encryption from the start, to protect customers’ data.
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After being delayed by more than a year, Canada's 5G spectrum auction got underway on Tuesday.
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Nokia has moved into the open RAN era by opening its first collaboration and testing centre, open to competing vendors.
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Mobilitie, a privately held US telecoms infrastructure company, has broken ground on its new fibre network across the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Telia Carrier has expanded its network deployments by launching two new points of presence (PoPs) at CoreSite’s Secaucus, New Jersey (NY2) and Boston, Massachusetts (BO1) data centres.
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SES is to continue delivering Comcast Technology Solutions’ Managed Satellite Distribution service, formerly known as Headend in the Sky (HITS).
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Lawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou have told a Canadian court that documents released to them by HSBC should be withheld from publication.
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New findings from Telia Carrier reveal that almost half (45%) of business leaders reported a higher number network security incidents as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Poland-headquartered software and IT services firm Comarch is to build a 32,000 sq ft data centre in Mesa, Arizona.
