August 05, 2024 Caribbean
Liberty Latin American (LLA) and Millicom have signed an agreement merge their operations in Costa Rica which will see LLA hold a stake of around 86 percent in the company, with Millicom holding the remaining 14 percent. The final ownership percentage will be confirmed at closing and the new...
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August 03, 2024 United States
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched two separate antitrust probes into GPU and AI giant Nvidia to evaluate whether the company has abused its market dominance and forced companies to buy additional products to receive GPUs, while penalizing those that buy rival chips. This comes as...
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August 01, 2024 Colorado (CO)
Infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak this week announced that it has formed a joint venture with American Tower subsidiary CoreSite to develop, construct, and operate an 18MW data center in Denver. Stonepeak is expected to hold 85 percent of the equity of the CoreSite DevCo JV, with CoreSite...
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August 01, 2024 Pennsylvania
Recently formed colocation firm Alerify, Inc. announced this week that it will be acquiring the assets of the hosting and Internet services business of Elevated MSP which was built in 1981 and is owned by local real estate firm the Vartan Group. The two-story building totals 68,830 square feet...
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July 31, 2024 North Carolina
Data Journey this week announced it has acquired the former purpose-built enterprise data center from Bed Bath & Beyond data center in Claremont, Catawba County, and has converted the facility into a colocation facility. This marks the company’s second facility acquisition, after acquiring...
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July 28, 2024 United States
GPU cloud company Lambda Labs has launched Nvidia HGX H100 and Quantum-2 InfiniBand Clusters for AI model training. The Silicon Valley-based company targets its Click clusters at AI developers that need access to high-end AI hardware, but not for long periods. “Lambda has solved a complex compute...
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July 24, 2024 United States
AI startup Code Metal which provides AI-powered development workflows at the Edge has secured a total of $16.5m in funding in its pre-seed round led by J2 Ventures and with support from Fulcrum Venture Group, Underdog Labs amongst others, and seed funding rounds led by Shield Capital.Peter...
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July 23, 2024 United States
Data center startup Ultrascale Digital Infrastructure (UDI) has revealed that it will be partnering with US food company Cargi for its plant-based immersion cooling fluid known as NatureCool 2000. Arnold Magcale, founder and CEO of UDI said: “At Ultrascale, we’ve proven that liquid immersion...
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July 22, 2024 Paraguay
Canadian cryptomining firm Hive Digital Technologies this week has announced plans to build a 100MW hydroelectricity-powered cryptomine data center in Paraguay. Hive said it will offer its “expertise in grid balancing and demand response” to support continued industrial development in Paraguay,...
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July 22, 2024 United States
GPU-based artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Nscale has acquired Kontena, a high-density modular data center and AI data center solutions provider to contribute to the infrastructure backbone for its GPU cloud. Following this acquisition, Nscale will be able to deploy Kontena's modular...
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July 20, 2024 United States
Cloud computing provider PeaSoup will be collaborating with Midas Immersion Cooling, colocation provider Centersquare, and coolant supplier Castrol for high-performance computing in cloud with reduced energy usage. Martin Bradburn, CEO of PeaSoup: "PeaSoup has always been at the forefront of...
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July 20, 2024 California
Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has raised $30 million in an investment round with investments from Nvidia and Hitachi Ventures amongst others. "We are thrilled to welcome Nvidia as our latest investor and look forward to building on our collaboration. Arrcus’ leading networking software...
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July 19, 2024 United States
Cloverleaf Infrastructure, which is developing clean-powered, ready-to-build data center sites in the US has secured $300 million in funding for its clean energy data center campuses from private equity investors NGP and Sandbrook Capital, alongside contributions from its management team. David...
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July 19, 2024 Texas
AI firm Crusoe has revealed it has designed and engineered, and is building, a 200MW GPU-focused data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas. This facility will include high-density data halls specially designed to enable AI workloads and optimized for direct-to-chip liquid...
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July 18, 2024 United States
Neutral-atom quantum computing, QuEra has announced Andy Ory as its interim CEO, noting that its current CEO, Alex Keesling, will transition from his current position to “take on a new role” leading QuEra's efforts to achieve higher-volume production as CTO. Ory said: "We are grateful for Alex's...
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July 18, 2024 United States
US Department of Commerce and Natcast, operator of the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), has awarded funding for three R&D facilities under the CHIPS and Science Act; an NSTC prototyping and National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) advanced packaging piloting...
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July 15, 2024 Las Vegas
The Sphere in Las Vegas, popularly known for its globe shape and LED displays that cover 750,000 sq ft (69,677 sqm) inside and out is reportedly powered by 150 of Nvidia's RTX A6000 GPUs with each having a 48GB memory and maximum power consumption of 300W. “Sphere is captivating audiences not...
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July 15, 2024 Denver
Data center directory firm Upstack has acquired Performance Networks, a telecommunications consulting company based in Denver which specializes in sourcing and managing complex telecom networks primarily for large enterprises.“Performance Networks’ commitment to customer experience and client...
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July 12, 2024 United States
Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Nebul has selected Lightbits Labs for the storage foundation for its AI cloud, enabling companies within the EU to deploy Nvidia-based private AI in the cloud."We considered the usual storage providers, but even the software-defined ones tend to have a...
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July 11, 2024 Texas
Cryptomining company Hut 8 has revealed that it will beexpanding its operations in Texas and has signed a power purchase agreement to procure 205MW of energy for a new data center to be built on an undisclosed greenfield site in West Texas.Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “This transaction...
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