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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Starcloud closes $250m Series A extension at $2.3bn valuation to scale AI on orbital data centers
ODC pioneer secures nearly half a billion dollars of investment to prove out space computing
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Quantum firm Atom Computing secures $100m Series C funding
Third Point Ventures, DCVC, and Cisco Investments put money into Atom's atomic array-based tech
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Cisco alum joins Finchetto to drive optical switching for AI
Former Cisco VP and Saisei Networks founder backs British startup’s bid to shake up the switch market
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Cisco to build data center in Krakow, Poland
Facility to include R&D laboratories
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Cybastion to build 20MW data center in Gabon
Working with Gabonese government and Cisco on project
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AMD, Cisco, and Humain set up JV for 1GW of AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
Already has its first customer
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US's Export-Import Bank approves more than $100m in financing guarantees for digitalization in Côte d'Ivoire
Will facilitate construction of data center
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AI chip company Groq raises $750m at $6.9bn valuation
Round was led by investment firm Disruptive
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Digital Alpha invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute
Will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint
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Real Madrid and Cisco to develop data center at training campus
Will be used for AI, as well as "traditional" workloads
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Cisco’s Qunnect investment fuels its quantum focus
Quantum networking toward a quantum Internet
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Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle, and OpenAI join UAE-US AI Campus - report
Looks to be home to an OpenAI Stargate deployment
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HPE hits back at DOJ move to block Juniper deal, says Huawei could benefit
The company also warns that Cisco will benefit
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Cisco to invest in CoreWeave at $23bn valuation - report
A jump from $19bn in May
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Groq closes $640m funding round; hires Meta and former HP and Intel execs
Latest round values company at $2.8bn
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Cisco to lay off over 4,000 employees
Redundancies are a result of the company’s restructuring plan
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Cisco to cut 350 jobs in Silicon Valley next month
The latest layoffs will impact employees in San Jose and Milpitas
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Cisco to snap up cloud-based core network platform dev Working Group Two for $150m
The acquisition will beef up Cisco's mobility services offering
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Cisco acquires assurance firm Accedian
Expects the move to complete during the first quarter of FY24
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Cisco posts "largest quarterly revenue" in its history, announces layoffs
Says it is less about cost saving, and more about changing direction
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Cisco-Acacia merger descends into flurry of legal challenges
Cisco and Acacia Communications are entering a legal battle over whether or not a previously agreed acquisition deal will go ahead
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Chayora Holdings expands senior team with three new hires
Bringing execs over from Microsoft, AWS and Digital Realty
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Cisco details SaltStack flaws that led to multiple hacks
Six servers were left vulnerable by a flawed software package
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Larry Page, Brian Krzanich, Satya Nadella and more to meet Trump at tech summit
DCD still awaiting invite
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ICANN transitions out of US control, despite Trump, Cruz opposition
Last minute legal action fails to stop move