BT mulls move into Edge data centers via tower and exchange portfolio
Also set to explore repurposing some telephone exchanges
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OVH launches Oslo Local Zone Edge location in Norway
Company now has 16 European Local Zones live
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AWS launches new generation of Outpost racks
Supports x86-powered Amazon EC2 instances
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InfraXmedia announces acquisition of SDxCentral to shape the future of digital infrastructure insight
Deal strengthens InfraXmedia’s leadership across digital infrastructure media, events, data, and demand generation platforms
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More than 60% of Russia-based piracy sites rely on same CDN – report
Volumes of pirated content continue to grow
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Ground station startup Northwood Space raises $30 million
Company led by former Disney child star raises more cash
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AWS launches Wavelength Zone Edge in Senegal with Orange
Cloud company’s second Wavelength site in Africa
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Australia’s DXN signs deal to deliver prefabbed data centers to ground station provider
Initial deployment in Australia’s Northern Territory
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Google Media CDN has more than 100Tbps of egress capacity
Uses Google's Edge network
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Yorizon and Hochtief break ground on timber Edge data center in Bad Lippspringe, Germany
2MW liquid-cooled facility due live next year
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NTT launches AI inference chip for low-power video processing at the Edge
Will look to commercialize the offering in 2025
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Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Google Gemini models to be available via Google Distributed Cloud
Google's Edge offering gets an AI edge
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Sidus Space signs preliminary $120m agreement with Lonestar for Lunar data storage spacecraft
After a brief Moon data center experiment, the Sidus deal moves forward
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Northern Data and Gcore partner for Intelligence Delivery Network for AI workloads
Will allow customers to use 180 points of presence for AI inferencing workloads
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Subsea cable operator Global Cloud Xchange rebrands to FLAG
In a bid to prioritize investment across more geographies, subsea cable, Edge data centers, and cable landing stations
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Sateliot secures €70 million funding round from national and European backers
Telecoms and satellite systems well within European remit for expanded infrastructure and defense financing
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Northstar Technologies acquires Compass’ Quantum Edge data center unit
Prefab module provider joins prefab construction firm
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OVH launches Local Zone in Boston, Massachusetts
Follows Seattle launch this month
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Parler to rename its cloud as EdgeCast Cloud Services
After picking up assets from Edgio bankruptcy
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Pulsant acquires two data centers in the UK
Expands portfolio to 14 facilities
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Remos Space secures €1m for African satellite comms infrastructure buildout
Remos invests in Africa ground station tech
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Akamai launches cloud inference offering
Also announces availability of video processing units via its cloud
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Viasat selected to design ‘Moonlight’ Lunar orbiting satellite system alongside Telespazio
Ambitious Moon network hopes to pave the way to a Lunar economy
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DCD Magazine out now: How this feature got to the Moon
The world's only off-world data center publication
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Palantir delivers two mobile ground stations to US Army
AI-powered trucks delivered as part of TITAN project
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Cloudflare adds wave machines to random encryption system in Portugal
Company adds liquid wall of entropy in Lisbon
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Akamai Technologies partners with Vast Data to speed up AI inferencing
Brings inferencing to the Edge
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Amazon puts an end to Echo device processing at the Edge
All requests will now be processed in the cloud