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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

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

California

Crusoe plans new AI data center in 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 ...

July 19, 2024

Texas

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

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

Denver

Hut 8 to expand in West 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 ex...

July 11, 2024

Texas

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

Miami

Phaidra raises funds for data center cooling control system

Industrial AI company Phaidra has raised $12 million for its data center cooling control system from Index Ventures and will use the money for R&D, implementation, and go-to-market efforts.“The data center industry is in the midst of an arms race to build new capacity wherever land and po...

July 05, 2024

Seattle

Metrobloks raises $5.2 million in funding round

Metrobloks, a new data center startup focused on metro projects this week announced an oversubscribed $5.2 million seed round led by Current Equity Partners with the backing of Serena Capital. The company noted that it designs, deploys, and operates modular and scalable data centers in underse...

June 27, 2024

New York

CPUC denies AT&T’s request to be released from COLR duties

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has voted to deny AT&T’s request to be released from its duties as Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) in the state, leaving the company legally obligated to provide its telephone services to anyone who asks."Despite AT&T’s contention that pr...

June 26, 2024

California

Johnson Controls sells Air Distribution Technologies unit

Johnson Controls this week announced it had reached a definitive agreement to sell its Air Distribution Technologies business to Truelink, a middle-market private equity firm based in Los Angeles. The brands included in this sale are Koch Filter, Titus, Ruskin, Krueger, PennBarry, and Tuttle ...

June 21, 2024

Los Angeles

Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...

June 12, 2024

Amsterdam

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sign new cloud offering agreement

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement for the football club to deploy HPE GreenLake and Aruba Networks at its new facilities. Following this agreement, HPE will be the new Espai Barça Official Edge-to-Cloud Partner for the next four seasons, until 30 June ...

June 12, 2024

Barcelona

DataNovaX pitches Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities

DataNovaX, a new build-to-suit (BTS) data center provider, this week announced it is pitching Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities and is accepting clients at Pioneer Park in Wichita Falls.Ahmed Abdelghani, DataNovaX CEO, said: "This area offers a wealth of resources and busine...

June 04, 2024

Texas

Soluna secures $30 million in funding for data center expansion

Data center operator Soluna has secured $30 million in funding from Spring Lane Capital to expand its data center in Texas. Soluna said the financing will accommodate approximately 12,700 Bitcoin mining rigs, each with a power consumption of around 3.5kW, totaling 48MW. Soluna has an existing ...

May 24, 2024

Soluna

Ericsson to invest $50 million for data center expansion

Ericsson this week revealed it will invest an additional $50 million to expand its four-year-old 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, an investment which "will further accelerate local production to address the demand for 5G infrastructure made in the USA, compliant with the Build America B...

May 21, 2024

Texas

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline.“Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data cent...

May 10, 2024

Atlanta

Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas

A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI En...

April 29, 2024

Austin

Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California

New cloud company Oxide is deploying its on-premise hardware at CoreSite’s data center in Silicon Valley. It also announced this week that it would ‘leverage colocation solutions’ at CoreSite's Silicon Valley SV2 data center. “The Oxide Cloud Computer empowers developers to build, run, and ope...

April 24, 2024

California

Los Alamos Lab unveils Venado supercomputer

The Venado supercomputer has been launched at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is a system which consists of 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips; 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, each of which contains 144 Arm cores; and is networked with HPE Slingshot 11 interconnec...

April 16, 2024

New Mexico

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