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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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A new Juniper Research study has concluded that there are messaging revenue opportunities worth US$88 billion for operators.
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Valterra Partners and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547 CSR) have partnered to acquire ColoHouse, the global data centre services firm headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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For the wireless industry to succeed, it depends on a combination of various factors. Ray Williamson, director, European product management, Huawei Wireless explains what they are
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Ahead of International Telecoms Week 2021, connectivity players have reinforced the need for global collaboration as the satellite sector continues to make rapid gains.
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Bluebird is now providing 400 Gbps services across Missouri after lighting a new, 300-mile circuit.
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Fastly has confirmed that a software bug was behind the outage that brought down its edge cloud platform yesterday.
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Japanese operator and investor SoftBank has taken a significant move to unify and coordinate all of its connectivity solutions that operate from above the Earth’s surface.
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Infrastructure investment company Colony Capital is to rename itself DigitalBridge Group from 22 June.
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The confirmed $10 billion acquisition of QTS Realty Trust by Blackstone - the biggest data centre acquisition ever seen - means the annual value of data centre mergers and acquisitions is moving towards a new record in 2021.
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Marc Ganzi’s Colony Capital is making one of its biggest moves ever out of non-digital investments, so that it can focus on digital infrastructure.
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Nautilus Data Technologies is to build a $300 million data centre on land, and use the same recycled water technology it has developed to cool it.
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Wifi and mobile infrastructure company Boingo Wireless is now officially part of Digital Colony after March’s takeover bid was completed last week.
