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Google has reached a major clean energy milestone by signing the first-ever corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) for geothermal energy in Taiwan — and across the Asia-Pacific region. -
No evidence has been found to suggest that the Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 intentionally damaged two subsea cables last November, Sweden’s Accident Investigation Authority (SHK) has ruled.
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Nvidia has pledged to manufacture its AI supercomputing solutions in the US after President Trump’s currently suspended tariffs continue to force firms into supply chain rethinks.
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“People are investing ahead of the demand,” warned Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai, speaking about the current wave of data centre build-outs. As a billionaire investor and Jack Ma’s long-time right-hand man, Tsai knows a thing or two about spotting froth in the market. His view on the sector’s rapid growth? “I start to see the beginning of some kind of bubble.”
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AI was once again front and centre at Google Cloud Next 2025. CEO Sundar Pichai opened the show by reaffirming Alphabet’s long-standing approach: “to always bring our latest AI advances into the full layers of our stack: Products and platforms”.
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New images of Elon Musk’s xAI data centre reveal a major expansion of on-site gas turbines, which campaigners claim violates environmental regulations.
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The AI race between OpenAI and xAI took another turn after the Elon Musk-owned startup released Grok 3, its latest model which the billionaire claimed was “magnitude more capable than Grok 2”.
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The telecommunications sector is on the brink of a significant transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI). With projected investments exceeding $5 billion by 2026, AI is poised to become the foremost driver of innovation and efficiency.
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Capacity sits down with DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi to talk AI and next-gen infrastructure
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The Italian state will retain a 70% stake in subsea firm Sparkle after Telecom Italia signed off on the €700 million (USD$733 million) acquisition bid from Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and Asterion subsidiary Retelit.
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Virgin Media O2’s (VMO2) CEO, Lutz Schüler, has emphasised that the company’s new AI tools are designed to enhance, not replace human agents.
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e& has reported a 10.1% increase in revenues for its fiscal year 2024, reaching AED 59.2 billion ($16.2 billion), compared to AED 53.7 billion ($14.6 billion) in 2023.
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Britain’s economy saw an unexpected boost in the final quarter of 2024, with GDP rising by 0.1% despite earlier predictions of a decline.
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For years, Open RAN has been heralded as a revolution in telecom, promising interoperability, cost efficiency, and supply chain diversification. Yet, in 2025, industry experts are now questioning whether Open RAN has truly delivered on its promise—or whether it has simply morphed into another vendor-dominated ecosystem.
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Mobily is to invest $905 million (SAR 3.4 billion) to improve Saudi Arabia’s digital infrastructure through the development of data centres and submarine cables.
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Elon Musk’s feud with OpenAI has taken a new turn, with reports suggesting the billionaire is leading a consortium aiming to buy the ChatGPT maker for $97.4 billion.
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Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark is set step to down, with Intel’s data centre and AI general manager Justin Hotard set to take over.
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Numerous major tech and telecom companies have decided to abandon their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) goals in 2025.
