October 24, 2024 United States
Chip firm Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC) has secured up to $325 million in proposed direct funding from the Department of Commerce under the CHIPS and Science Act. The funding is intended to shore up the production of semiconductor-grade polysilicon, a a highly pure form of silicon that is used in...
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October 19, 2024 Virginia
Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five...
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October 18, 2024 Pennsylvania
The Department of Commerce has provisionally agreed to provide up to $93 million in direct funding to optical networking vendor Infinera which would support the construction of a new fab in San Jose, California, and a new advanced test and packaging facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.“We are...
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October 17, 2024 Hawaii
Investment firm Harrison Street and data center company fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) this week announced the acquisition of AlohaNAP, a carrier hotel data center located on the island of O‘ahu in Hawaii."AlohaNAP is a crucial hub for international data transmission,...
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October 10, 2024 United States
AI GPU cloud platform TensorWave has closed a $43 million SAFE (simple agreements for future equity) funding round. This included participation from Maverick Capital, Translink Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Granite Partners, and AMD Ventures. The participating investors have the right to...
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October 09, 2024 Arizona
Chipmaker TSMC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US semiconductor product packaging and test services company, Amkor Technology. Following their agreement, Amkor will provide TSMC with turnkey advanced packaging and test services at its planned outsourced semiconductor assembly...
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October 08, 2024 Pennsylvania
US independent power producer Talen Energy has acquired full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine, a 200MW Bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania, from TeraWulf. Talen acquired TeraWulf’s 25 percent interest in Nautilus and obtained full control of the legacy Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)...
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September 27, 2024 Texas
A Houston, Texas, facility has received $40 million in investment to be upgraded as an artificial intelligence (AI) data center. This site is located at 11445 Compaq Center W. Drive and is part of the 66-acre Viva Center campus at State Highway 249 and Louetta Road. The $40 million will be used...
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September 25, 2024 Virginia
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a rezoning requestto rezone the land from agricultural to planned business district to enable two data centers to be built. in Gainesville, Virginia. The data centers are expected to total nearly 815,000 sq ft (75,716 sqm) and are...
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September 20, 2024 United States
Alibaba Cloud has claimed its modular data center architecture can reduce build times by as much as 50 percent as it shared details of its Cube DC 5.0 modular data center architecture at its annual Apsara conference. The provider describes Cube DC 5.0 as a prefabricated modular design that uses a...
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September 20, 2024 United States
Private equity firm Snowhawk LP has invested in data center developer CleanArc Data Centers as the company expands its team and develops its first data center campus in Virginia. Led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout, the company aims to develop hyperscale data center campuses delivering...
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September 20, 2024 California
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-chip...
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September 19, 2024 United States
The Department of Commerce has awarded almost $5 million to 17 small businesses under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to support microelectronics research projects that have the potential to be commercialized.The 17 companies include California-based HighRI Optics, which is...
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September 17, 2024 United States
Lenovo has launched a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering designed to help customers bring artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on-premises, Lenovo has added GPUaaS to its subscription-based infrastructure model, TruScale. The company also added automation, predictive analytics, and generative...
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September 12, 2024 United States
SiMa.ai has launched MLSoC Modalix, a multi-modal, software-centric Edge AI chip for its embedded Edge machine learning system-on-chip (MLSoC) offering. MLSoC Modalix is the second generation of SiMa’s MLSoC and it supports CNNs, transformers, LLMs, LMMs, and generative AI at the Edge, reportedly...
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September 11, 2024 Virginia
Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key...
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September 10, 2024 United States
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has announced a new $23 million research and development program led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The initiative will see a team led by ORNL source R&D proposals across the areas of hardware, software, and critical technologies...
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September 06, 2024 Indiana
Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street announced the acquisition of the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in Northern Indiana. This facility offers access to more than 20 telecommunication network service providers, totaling 75,000 sq ft (6,965...
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September 06, 2024 Texas
Duos Technology, a company specializing in machine vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, this week announced the launch of its first Edge data center at the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo. Doug Recker, president of Duos Edge AI said Amarillo is a location...
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September 01, 2024 Denver
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...
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