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The province of Ontario will cancel Starlink’s licence to operate in a tit-for-tat if US President Trump introduces 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada. -
DE-CIX has brought in Nokia to support its New York IX upgrade to offer greater router flexibility and operational resilience.
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Private equity firm Novacap has launched a new fund to invest more than $1 billion in digital infrastructure projects across North America.
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Globalinx, a carrier-neutral cable landing station operator, has unveiled plans for an expansion project at Sandbridge Beach in Virginia Beach.
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Louisiana is the first US state to secure final approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Biden-Harris Administration’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) programme.
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The US Department of Commerce has earmarked the location of the third flagship CHIPS for America research and development (R&D) facility and greenlit the creation of a virtual semiconductor manufacturing research centre.
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A US appeals court has struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) latest attempt to enforce network neutrality rules, ruling that broadband internet service providers (ISPs) are classified as offering “information services” rather than “telecommunications services”.
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Here are some news stories from this week you might have missed.
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A joint venture between investment firm Harrison Street and AREP’s PowerHouse Data Centers has sold ABX-1, a 265,580-square-foot data centre in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Verizon and Geotab have been hit with a lawsuit alleging the pair infringed patented antenna technologies developed by Fractus.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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Telxius has teamed up with Orange, and Setar to create a new high-capacity subsea cable in the Caribbean.
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Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure solutions provider, has closed $150 million in secured debt financing with Macquarie Equipment Capital.
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Bernard Looney, former CEO of oil and gas giant BP has joined sustainable data centre startup Prometheus Hyperscale as chair of its Board of Directors.
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Nebius has launched its first GPU cluster as the AI infrastructure continues its North American expansion.
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DE-CIX has launched its sixth US-based Internet Exchange in Houston.
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The US Department of Defence has extended its contract with Verizon to use its secure Global Network Solutions (GNS) in a deal worth more than $98 million.
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Social media app TikTok has said it will fight an order by the Canadian government to cease operations in the country over national security concerns.
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