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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The North Pole has now got fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) thanks to Alaska Communications, but not the North Pole that everyone understands by the term.
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The island of Bermuda is to get a new mobile competitor, that will be fully cloud-based.
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The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) in the Caribbean has started the process to build a national fibre ring that will link with the sole subsea cable that connects it to neighbouring islands and to the US and South America.
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The new 15,840km Southern Cross Next cable from Australia and New Zealand to the US, is now offering Ethernet services at 400Gbps.
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Lumos is making a US$100 million investment in South Carolina’s Richland and Lexington Counties, to bring ultra-high-speed 100% fibre optic services across the greater Columbia area.
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DataVerge, which operates a carrier-neutral interconnection facility in Brooklyn, has hired Hunter Newby to join its board of directors.
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Communications infrastructure provider Bluebird Network has announced its intent to acquire the middle-mile fibre network assets from Missouri Telecom (MTI).
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1547 has partnered with investment management firm Harrison Street to buy Chase Tower in McAllen, Texas, one of the most important internet exchange locations for traffic between Texas and Mexico.
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Four leading English-speaking economies have aligned their strategies for secure mobile infrastructure, continuing from the 5G era into 6G.
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FirstLight has confirmed that it is building out its fibre broadband network in parts of Maine.
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Aruba has raised €500 million in funding for the expansion of its Global Cloud Data Center (GCDC) campus.
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Far North Fiber’s Ethan Berkowitz tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that Japanese, US and European businesses have teamed up to build the first cross-Arctic cable, which will cut latency between Europe and Japan by 100ms
