Capacity News Weekly Roundup: Colt closes ￡1.8bn Lumen deal, UK moves forward on AI, Google's latest subsea project
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Colt closes $1.8 billion Lumen EMEA deal
London headquartered Colt Technology Services, a global digital infrastructure company, has closed its acquisition of US-based Lumen Technologies EMEA business.
BT records soaring profits in latest results
BT said its profits had risen by almost a third as it passed on high inflation costs to customers. The firm said that its results were driven by revenue flow through strong cost-cutting measures as it began to bear the fruits of its three-year cost-control plan.
UK moves forward with AI regulation
Leading tech firms including the likes of Meta, Google and OpenAI will allow regulators to test their latest artificial intelligence (AI) products before releasing them for public use.
Google unveils double subsea cable project through South Pacific Connect initiative
Google has announced plans for the South Pacific Connect initiative, a new project will deliver two new trans-Pacific subsea cables. Writing about this announcement in a blog post, Brian Quigley VP of global network infrastructure at Google Cloud, said “we are excited about what this (South Pacific Connect initiative) means for our users and Google Cloud customers in the Pacific and around the world”.
Addressing an ageing data centre industry
Susanna Kass sat down with Saf Malik in Oslo, Norway at the Datacloud ESG Summit event to discuss the BroadGroup Talent in Tech initiative, her role at Stanford University and the UNSDG programme.
Michael Wheeler of NTT on ensuring network peformance
Michael Wheeler of NTT talks to Capacity's Natalie Bannerman about the most in demand services across NTT's global IP network, how they ensure the network performance, the merger of international operations and the future roadmap for the network.
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