October 23, 2025 EXA Infrastructure
Fiber firm Exa Infrastructure has refinanced its existing facilities and raised more than €1.3 billion ($1.52bn) in new financing which will support Exa's "continued growth ambitions and network expansion plans."“This move gives us an unrivalled ability to continue investing in our network, at a...
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October 20, 2025 Kyndryl
AI chip startup Groq has partnered with IBM to provide agentic AI capabilities via GroqCloud on IBM watsonx Orchestrate. Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will also integrate Red Hat’s open source vLLM technology with Groq’s LPU chips, with plans to support IBM Granite models on...
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January 07, 2025 Kyndryl
IBM and GlobalFoundries (GF) have reached a settlement in their long-running legal dispute which saw both companies claim breach of contract and misuse of trade secrets and intellectual property. The two companies said the undisclosed settlement resolves “all litigation matters” and would allow...
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November 20, 2024 Kyndryl
IBM is planning to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available as a service via IBM Cloud. The GPUs will be rolled out on the platform in the first half of 2025, with the aim of improving the performance and power efficiency of generative AI models and high-performance computing applications.“As...
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October 01, 2024 Kyndryl
IBM this week announced the launch of the facility, at IBM's campus in Ehningen near Stuttgart, in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is IBM's second quantum data center, featuring three systems - one based on IBM's Heron processor, alongside two other new systems that will...
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September 09, 2024 EXA Infrastructure
Exa Infrastructure has announced its plans to acquire Bulgarian telco Global Communication Net AD (GCN). Exa Infrastructure did not disclose terms of the deal, but the company did state it expects the deal to conclude the during the fourth quarter of this year."The GCN network consists of over...
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July 04, 2024 EXA Infrastructure
Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber have partnered to develop a new 1,850km terrestrial cable which will will span the breadth of Turkey (officially Türkiye), with the potential to run along the Iraq border as an alternative to subsea cables in the Red Sea corridor.Steve Roberts, senior vice...
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May 01, 2024 Kyndryl
Japanese research institute Riken is set to deploy an IBM quantum computer at its facilities in Kobe. The quantum system – to be powered by a 133-qubit Heron processor – will be colocated and integrated with the organization’s existing Fugaku supercomputer. “Riken is committed to developing...
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April 29, 2024 Kyndryl
IBM has signed an agreement with both the Quebec government and the Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry. Following this agreement, IBM and the two governments invest C$187 million (US$137m) in the company’s Bromont plant in Quebec to bolster the country’s...
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April 24, 2024 Kyndryl
IBM is set to buy out HashiCorp, a vendor that makes software to help businesses manage digital infrastructure, for $6.4 billion. It will pay $35 per share for HashiCorp. The company’s stock had been trading at a price of $24.88 before the deal was announced. "Enterprise clients are wrestling...
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April 06, 2024 Kyndryl
IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have launched a quantum computer at RPI’s campus in New York. A chapel that the university repurposed in the 1960s, the quantum computer is be positioned next to a stained glass window and serves as a focal point of RPI’s new Curtis Priem Quantum...
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April 05, 2024 EXA Infrastructure
European Edge firm nLighten has acquired seven data centers from sister company Exa Infrastructure in a move which positions it as a "frontrunner" in the European data center market, while allowing Exa to focus on its terrestrial and subsea fiber network. This expansion brings nLighten's total...
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February 22, 2024 EXA Infrastructure
Aqua Comms and Exa Infrastructure announced this week that CEO Jim Fagan has jumped ship and will be leaving Aqua Comms immediately. He will be taking over the role as CEO at Exa Infrastructure in August. Chairman Alan Harper is to provide commercial and strategic assistance throughout the...
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November 14, 2023 EXA Infrastructure
Exa Infrastructure recently announced that former Vodafone chief executive Nick Read will lead the business with immediate effect. Read, appointed as chairman of Exa Infrastructure in June, will replace Martijn Blanken as chief executive on an interim basis. As part of the transition, Blanket...
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October 03, 2023 Kyndryl
Global IT managed services provider Kyndryl is now considering separating its business in China into a separate entity in response to several geopolitical issues and the changing data laws in China. According to a report from the Financial Times, the IBM spin-out revealed this to some of its...
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August 22, 2023 Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications intends to transform the former Sprint switching plant real estate footprint acquired from T-Mobile into a substantial colocation data center portfolio. T-Mobile announced in September 2022 that it had agreed to sell its Wireline business to Cogent for a symbolic $1, with...
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July 05, 2023 Etix Everywhere
US data center operator DataBank is transferring its data center portfolio in France to Etix Everywhere and leaving the country. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced that it had reached an agreement with Etix Everywhere to sell all five of its facilities in France (which run as...
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June 07, 2023 Kyndryl
IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institutions,...
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May 19, 2023 Etix Everywhere
Interlink Telecom (Itel) of Thailand has declared its intention to invest in its data center partnership with Etix Everywhere. In conjunction with Australian firm Edge Centres, the company has also recently debuted an Edge facility. The Bangkok Post reports that Intel revealed plans to invest $20...
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March 30, 2023 EXA Infrastructure
Since its founding in 2021, Exa Infrastructure has spent $42.5 million in digital infrastructure for the Iberian Peninsula, Spain. Sixty-two miles of Barcelona's metro network have been upgraded, linking various data centers, including those owned by Interxion, Equinix, Edge Energy, and...
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