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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

Florida

Liberty Latin America and Millicom to merge operations in Costa Rica

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 e...

August 05, 2024

Caribbean

Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center

Australian advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra is expanding its sovereign cloud capacity with a new deployment in NextDC's S3 data center in Sydney, helping the company to meet growing demand from clients for cloud computing and storage capacity. The solutions provider will commence it...

August 05, 2024

Sydney

US DOJ opens antitrust probes into Nvidia

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 a...

August 03, 2024

United States

UK Government proposes data center changes

The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is planning to propose reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework including around the development of data centers. With regards to data centers, the proposals would reform the way that the Nationally Significant Infrastructu...

August 02, 2024

United Kingdom

Johnson Controls in search for new CEO

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls this week announced George R. Oliver has decided to stand down as CEO, following “substantial progress on its portfolio transformation.” The Irish company is now on the hunt for its next CEO with the assistance of an executive search firm to hel...

August 02, 2024

Europe

Stonepeak partners with CoreSite for Colorado data center

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 Cor...

August 01, 2024

Colorado (CO)

Alerify acquires Pennsylvania data center

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...

August 01, 2024

Pennsylvania

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Alameda Healthcare Group and Dell Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint data center development in Cairo. Dell will be responsible for providing the data center equipment necessary to Alameda, as well as to provide implementation services. Dell will also of...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Dell will also offer advisory services to Alameda surrounding Edge computing, network infrastructure, data center core technologies, and multi-cloud solutions.The data center will be located in Cairo, and will host Alameda's digital infrastructure.Dr. Fahad Khater, chairman of Alameda Healthc...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Telecom Namibia inaugurates cable landing station in Swakopmund

Telecom Namibia has inaugurated its cable landing station in Swakopmund, Namibia, activating its capacity on Google’s Equiano subsea cable which connects Namibia to Europe via Portugal and to the rest of Africa, via Cape Town and Johannesburg. The cable will help to build resilience in light ...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Transworld Associates to land 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan

Transworld Associates (TWA) has announced it will land the 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan, the world’s largest subsea cable network, and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points in Europe and Asia. Eight partners including China Mobile International, Baobab, center3, Meta, Orange, ...

July 31, 2024

Pakistan

Iceotope CEO David Craig to retire in September

Liquid cooling firm Iceotope has announced that CEO David Craig will be retiring, effective September 30 after spending nine years at the helm of Iceotope, previously serving as COO of McLaren Software and the founder of wind turbine developer Green Power partnership. Nathan Blom, chief comme...

July 31, 2024

United Kingdom

Data Journey acquires Bed Bath & Beyond data center in 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...

July 31, 2024

North Carolina

AirTrunk launches Johor data center in Malaysia

APAC data center firm AirTrunk has launched its first campus in Johor, Malaysia and has officially commenced operations at the JHB1 data center . The facility features the company’s first deployment of direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology alongside traditional indirect evaporative cooling ...

July 31, 2024

Malaysia

TenneT to invest up to €4.6bn in new transmission infrastructure

Dutch transmission system operator TenneT is looking to invest up to €4.6bn in thousands of kilometers of new transmission infrastructure across the Netherlands and Germany as it looks to update the grid. TenneT CEO Manon van Beek said: “To achieve the 2030, 2045, and 2050 climate milestones ...

July 31, 2024

Netherlands

Team IM to launch sovereign cloud for New Zealand

Kiwi information management services provider Team IM has deployed Oracle Alloy in its data centers and is set to launch a sovereign cloud for New Zealand which it claims will be New Zealand's first sovereign hyperscale cloud. Ian Rogers, CEO of Team IM. said: “Many companies have promised to...

July 28, 2024

New Zealand

Lambda Labs launches Nvidia HGX H100 and Quantum-2 InfiniBand Clusters

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 co...

July 28, 2024

United States

Fractile exits stealth with $15 million in seed funding

AI chip startup Fractile has exited stealth with $15 million in seed funding round co-led by Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, and Oxford Science Enterprises and included participation from a number of angel investors, including Stan Boland, co-founder of Icera, and Amar Shah, co-founder...

July 28, 2024

United Kingdom

Quantum Transistors secures funding from European Council

Israeli quantum computing startup Quantum Transistors has secured funding of up to €17.5 million ($19 million) from the European Innovation Commission. The council selected 68 companies that will receive an estimated €411 million ($446.1m) in funding, of which up to €165 million ($179m) is in...

July 28, 2024

Israel

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