DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - AWS
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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DensityAI: Chip startup founded by former Tesla Dojo execs valued at $10bn – report
Company has raised “hundreds of millions” for development of chip with 3D DRAM stacking, report claims
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Prysmian, Rio Tinto to supply Amazon data center in Ohio with low-carbon aluminum
Will deliver electrical cabling to the data center
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AWS “unable to restore access” to data centers hit by Iran strikes
Damage exceeded what availability zone-design designed to withstand
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Qualcomm and AWS partner on custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers
Will also work on optical connectivity solution with up to 1.6T
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Anthropic signed $517bn in compute agreements in past 11 months
Represents 14.8GW of compute capacity
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Amazon plots new subsea cable linking US and Japan
First cable to land in Washington since the new millennium
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AWS and Humain commit to bringing 50MW online at Saudi AI Zone by 2028
Company also on track for December 2026 cloud region launch
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AWS cable landing station in West Cork, Ireland, approved despite local opposition
CLS to support Fastnet transatlantic cable connecting West Cork, Ireland, to Maryland, USA
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Microsoft links Azure with AWS for hyperscale harmony
Amazon cloud gets multicloud networking boost
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AWS to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs
Two companies expand their partnership
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AWS launches new availability zone for UK cloud region
Also adds AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada
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AWS pledges $6bn investment in data center campus in Shreveport, Louisiana
Total data center investment in state now $18bn
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Amazon plans 18-building campus outside Cincinnati, Ohio
3.96 million sq ft campus planned around Trenton
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Amazon acquires 8,000-acre site in Pecos, Texas, for natural gas powered behind-the-meter data center - report
If built, it could be the largest natural gas plant in US at 7.65GW
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Amazon files to develop two new data center campuses in Texas
Company eyes Fort Stockton and Floydada, files to expand planned campus in Boling
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Y Combinator-backed Impact Drones to offer missile-intercepting drone service for data centers and grid operators
Following several strikes on data centers in US-Israel and Iran conflict
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AWS eyes potential data center development at 4.5GW natural gas plant in Pennsylvania
Company eyes upcoming Homer City Redevelopment project outside Pittsburgh
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AWS pulls out of planned data center campus next to Maryland nuclear plant
Company withdraws plans for Calvert Technology Center
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Cipher eyes 900MW data center site outside San Antonio, Texas
Reforming crypto firm brings Black Pearl site online early
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AWS reports fastest growth since 2021, Amazon annual capex to hit $220bn on AI memory costs
Cloud sales boom as company ramps up data center buildout
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Amazon, Duke Energy accused of evading Clean Air Act at under-development data center in Hamlet, North Carolina
Generators permitted for one year
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AWS looks to build 800,000 sq ft data center campus at GWU site in Ashburn, Virginia
County supervisor vows to use "every tool available" to fight development
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AWS secures $410m compute agreement with Recursive Superintelligence
Comes just months after AI startup raised $650m
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Idaho National Laboratory, Nvidia, AWS launch Prometheus project under Genesis Mission
Seeks to expedite advanced nuclear development through AI
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AU$1.1 billion data center project proposed outside Melbourne, Australia
Unnamed company plans development in City of Casey
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AWS launches Local Zone Edge location in Athens, Greece
Follows launch of Turkey location earlier this year
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims fresh hit on AWS data center in Bahrain
Says strikes were in response to alleged US attack on nuclear power plant in Darkhuin
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AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report
After Meta reveals plans for its own cloud business