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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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A Canadian offshoot of Kyndryl, the IBM infrastructure spin-off, is to use the OneWeb satellite network to offer internet access in remote part of the country.
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Rakuten Symphony snaps up Robin.io and telco cloud IP
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Türk Telekom has deployed Red Hat OpenShift to transform its business to from core to edge, while Elisa has partnered Google Cloud on cloud transformation.
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Intelsat has completed a demonstration of a 'first of its kind' private mobile network with Microsoft.
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DE-CIX is to expand its carrier and data centre neutral IX platform into multiple EdgeConneX data centres as part of its continuous work to scale its interconnection capabilities.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
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DigitalBridge Group has published its fourth quarter (Q4) and full year (FY) 2021 financial results
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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China Telecom has taken the latest step to exit the US following its ban by the US regulator.
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Vertical Bridge has appointed Ronald G. Bizick, II as its new president and chief operating officer (COO).
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Satellite operator Intelsat has emerged from bankruptcy with its debt cut from US$16 billion to $7 billion, and with $6.7 billion in new finance.
