DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - ByteDance
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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ByteDance and Oracle named as Arm AGI CPU customers
Revealed by Arm CEO Rene Haas at Computex
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Omnia signs $2bn wind energy deal with Casa dos Ventos to power ByteDance data center in Brazil - report
Power to be supplied from 630MW Ibiapaba wind complex
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Synergy Research: Cloud spending hits $129bn in Q1 2026, ninth consecutive quarter of growth
Highest growth rate since Q4 2021
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TikTok to invest €1bn in second Finnish data center
Comes after the company pulled back on plans for its Ireland location
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ByteDance backs out of plans to lease additional capacity in Ireland - report
TikTok owner will not lease second data center
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TikTok owner ByteDance signs 500MW data center deal with Vnet in China- report
As Vnet raises money to expand its Mainland China footprint
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TikTok experiences issues at US data center, but avoids full outage
After major power outage earlier this year
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ByteDance in talks with Samsung for production of 350,000 AI inferencing chips – report
Chinese tech company expecting to receive sample chips by end of March
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TikTok says outage is resolved, confirms it was an Oracle data center
Issues were caused by the harsh winter storm
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China approves Nvidia H200 purchases for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent - report
Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit
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TikTok US spin-off finalized, led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX
ByteDance retains 19.9 percent stake
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ByteDance ramps up cloud computing offering in China
Company has been expanding its cloud team and undercutting rivals on prices
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ByteDance signs deal to put TikTok US in control of Oracle-led consortium and avoid ban
Is the saga finally over?
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France's Voltalia looking to partner with ByteDance and Brookfield for data center venture in Brazil
Supply goes looking for demand
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Omnia, backed by Pátria, joins TikTok's $9bn data center project in Brazil
Expected to consume 300MW
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Trump signs EO bringing TikTok sale closer, as Oracle looks to partner with MGX, Fox, and Silver Lake for acquisition
Trump backers headline list of expected acquirers
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Oracle leads US TikTok acquisition consortium, as Trump extends shutdown deadline
Deal appears to finally be close
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Brazilian indigenous community files complaint to halt TikTok data center
Concerns about indigenous rights, the environment, and the constitution
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Patria Investments partners with Casa dos Ventos for data center project in Ceará, Brazil
The 50 billion reais project will be carried out in Caucaia and likely host TikTok
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Oracle, Blackstone, a16z back in the running to buy TikTok - report
Group tries again despite previous bid stalling
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ByteDance purchases 100,000 tons of carbon credits from Rubicon Carbon
Seeks to utilize offsets to support its goal of carbon neutrality by 2030
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Trump extends ByteDance's TikTok sale window, again
Shortform vids, longform saga
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Foundations' Christian Koch leaves ByteDance for OpenAI strategic intelligence analyst role
Will cover AI infrastructure at the Stargate company
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Casa dos Ventos granted approval to construct TikTok backed 300MW data center in Brazil - report
Operations slated for January 2027
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Nscale looks to raise $2.7bn for AI infrastructure - report
AI cloud firm is less than a year old
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ByteDance considers data center for TikTok in Brazil - report
Company reportedly in talks with renewable energy producer Casa dos Ventos
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TikTok bidders turn to Google and Microsoft for cloud services - report
As April 5 deadline approaches, companies interested in buying TikTok turn to US cloud providers
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TikTok commits $8.8bn to data centers in Thailand
Follows January's $3.8 billion agreement in the county