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Here are some news stories from this week you might have missed. -
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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SaaS cybersecurity managed solutions provider Foresite has named its new CEO and chairman.
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Geoverse has entered into an agreement to provide a private cellular solution for Oakland Maritime Support Services (OMSS).
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Alaska Communications has entered into a distribution partner agreement with OneWeb to expand its connectivity solutions across Alaska.
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Altice takes BT stake; Colony Capital rebrands; QTS breaks records; and Ivo Ivanov talks Space-IX
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Principal Real Estate has sealed its first fund dedicated to developing and acquiring data centres in the US, being over-subscribed in raising $533 million from investors globally.
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Dell Technologies has unveiled a "cloud-native infrastructure foundation solution", that is has said will push CSPs "beyond the hype" of 5G to create new commercial ops in network deployments and edge.
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Joe Biden has revoked his predecessor’s ban on TikTok, WeChat, Alipay and other Chinese apps, but has told the Commerce Secretary to keep investigating.
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SubCom confirms that Google has selected it to design, manufacture, and deploy Firmina, a new high-speed subsea cable system connecting North and South America.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Michael Ourabah, Chief Executive Officer and Founder and Anna Flach, Global Marketing Director of BSO about it's recent re-brand and revenue growth.
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Since has splashed out on another acquisition, this time snapping up MessageMedia for US$1.1 billion in cash and 1,128,487 new shares in Sinch.
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Network connectivity provider FiberLight has completed its fibre expansion in the greater El Paso, Texas market, with a new point-of-presence through MDC's El Paso data centre.
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Global Telco Consult (GTC) is to provide international operator BTS with managed services for its SMS platform.
