06/02/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Computex, DigitalBridge, QTS, Verizon, Google
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
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Datacloud Global Congress 2024 - Cannes, France
[Link] From Light Reading... DigitalBridge might make a play for Crown Castle's fiber business in a deal that could be worth up to $15 billion.
[Link] QTS files for a third data center campus in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Arizona. The report says the company plans to develop 16 buildings, each around 180,000 square feet.
[Link] Digital Edge partners with Donghwa ES to develop innovative energy storage technology for data center redundancy. The Hybrid Super Capacitor (HSC) Energy Storage System presents a viable alternative to traditional batteries and has the potential to revolutionize data center ancillary power generation for future AI and hyperscale workloads.
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[Link] Â AST SpaceMobile and Verizon announced plans to target 100% coverage of the United States from space on premium 850 MHz cellular. Verizon also announced that its Public Sector group is among multiple awardees selected for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract for wireless services: Navy Spiral 4. This is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $2.67 billion over 10 years if the Navy exercises all contract options.
[Link] T-Mobile had a busy week: SpaceX said the companyâs âdirect-to-cellâ service with T-Mobile is launching commercially in the US this fall. T-Mobile also shelled out $4.4 billion last week for select spectrum and the wireless operations of US Cellular.
[Link] Google has partnered with Purdue University on a project exploring the use of AI in designing low-carbon data centers and other industrial buildings. The project will deploy AI to explore new materials, technologies, and design strategies that can potentially reduce the carbon footprint of new builds.
[Link] 𤯠Quantum Computing company Photonic demonstrates distributed entanglement between modules, marking a significant milestone toward scalable quantum computing and networking. Photonicâs architecture provides a unique solution to one of the primary challenges on the road to large-scale quantum adoptionâscalable entanglement distributionâand literally goes âoutside the boxâ to open avenues for transformative applications in fields such as materials science and drug discovery.
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