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T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion

T-Mobile, in an announcement this week, said the multi-year expansion of its 5G network has concluded. The carrier said it has upgraded new and existing cell sites across the state.In total, the carrier has upgraded 1,350 sites across Florida, while also bolstering 1,375 sites to shore up emer...

July 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

Crypto firm Hive Digital this week announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a facility with 7.2MW of installed capacity. Hive said the acquisition will support the development of a “sovereign Canadian AI ecosystem” through its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzz High Perform...

June 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Toronto

Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

Seattle-based Sophia Space, an orbital computing venture, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Unlock Ventures with the participation of angel investors, to develop Edge compute solutions for orbit and what they call space-based data centers.“We are at the dawn of a new era where...

May 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Seattle

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral

The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, EC...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Phoenix to clamp down on data centers

The city of Phoenix in Arizona is set to clamp down on data centers. The City Council has approved a series of changes to better regulate data center growth in the city, including regulating locations and external design specifications.The vote, which took place on December 10, targeted standa...

January 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Phoenix

Intel shareholders file lawsuit alleging federal securities laws violations

Intel shareholders have filed a derivative lawsuit against the company, alleging executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, made false and misleading statements about the reorganization of a manufacturing segment. The lawsuit accuses Intel executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, o...

December 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performa...

November 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Dublin

Oxide Cloud Computer to be installed at LLNL

Oxide Computer Company and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are teaming up to bring on-premises cloud capabilities to the LLNL supercomputing center. The startup will be deploy its rack-scale Oxide Cloud Computer at LLNL's high performance computing (HPC) center in Livermore, ...

November 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

T-Mobile to connect autonomous shuttle service in Jacksonville, Florida

T-Mobile revealed earlier this week that it had paired with Miller Electric Company to connect a fully autonomous shuttle that transports visitors three miles along Jacksonville's waterfront.“5G connectivity provides the highest bandwidth and lowest latency communication between the AVs and th...

October 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

Sixth Street acquires minority stake in EdgeConneX

Investment firm Sixth Street has acquired a minority stake in data center firm EdgeConneX from EQT as both companies announced that the EQT Infrastructure IV and V funds have signed an agreement to sell a minority stake in EdgeConneX to funds managed by Sixth Street. Infrastructure will remain...

September 24, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator

RISC-V chipmaker SiFive has announced a new series of AI accelerators for high-performance workloads including its Intelligence XM Series which it claims is the first IP to include a scalable matrix engine, designed to accelerate time-to-market for semiconductor companies building system-on-c...

September 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

CoreSite seeks tax rebate for Denver data center

American Towner-owned company CoreSite is planning to “rehabilitate and activate” an abandoned industrial site in Denver as part of a proposed tax agreement. The data center campus will span 600,000 square feet and create up to 75 new trades and technology-oriented jobs, according to a present...

September 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denver

IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes

IBM has announced two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes at the Hot Chips 2024 event this week in California. The new Telum II chip which was designed to power IBM Z systems features increased frequency, memory capacity, a 40 percent growth in cache, and integrated AI accelerato...

August 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

RadiusDC acquires data center in Miami

RadiusDC this week announced the acquisition of Miami I in the Sweetwater area of the city from NextStream, a data center operator in Latin America owned by Actis. RadiusDC said it plans to immediately expand the site's capacity from 3.2MW to 9.2MW. "We believe Miami I is an ideal asset to e...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

FCC grants AST SpaceMobile license to launch commercial satellites

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted AST SpaceMobile a license to launch and operate V, S, and UHF frequencies to support gateway, feeder link, and telemetry, tracking, and control operations for the first five commercial satellites later this year.Scott Wisniewski, presiden...

August 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

Arrcus raises $30m in funding round

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 c...

July 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Vegas Sphere powered by 150 Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs

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 o...

July 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Las Vegas

Upstack acquires consulting firm Performance Networks in 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...

July 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denver

InfiniG deploys in-building mobile coverage in Florida

Mobile coverage solution firm InfiniG has deployed its in-building mobile infrastructure as a Service (MCaaS) solution at the Gale South Beach Hotel in Miami. This deployment offers multi-carrier mobile coverage services to all guests in all locations in the Gale Hospitality Group-owned hotel,...

July 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

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