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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This is the 15th ITW, but how did it start? Alan Burkitt-Gray was there at the first, and tells the fascinating story
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Maple Leaf Fibre, the planned inter-city Canadian link between Toronto and Montréal, has dropped its plan for an underwater segment and will be entirely terrestrial for the whole length.
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The government of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean has commissioned a feasibility study into the need for a new subsea cable.
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The board of directors of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) has authorised Lleida.net to provide seven certified electronic communication services.
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Rogers Communications has launched the first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network in Canada.
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Aligned Data Centers is planning to develop to new data centre on its hyperscale campus in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Meta is to invest more than US$800 million in a new data centre that it said will be the "first of its kind in Missouri".
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Verizon Connect’s fleet management software platform has been integrated into Amazon Web Services as a result of a new partnership between the companies.
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QTS Realty Trust will expand its connectivity ecosystem after unveiling a long-term agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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DataBank will expand its San Diego data centre facility, SAN1 the company has announced.
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OneWeb has announced that the US government has approved its appointment of three former senior US national security officials to serve as members of its proxy board.
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Rogers and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal to help small and medium business customers accelerate digitization through Microsoft Azure.
