DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Business Operations, ByteDance
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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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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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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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 commits $8.8bn to data centers in Thailand
Follows January's $3.8 billion agreement in the county
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ByteDance to develop $614m AI data center in Shanxi province, China
TikTok owner increasing compute capacity to meet AI demands
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ByteDance could spend $7bn to access Nvidia Blackwell chips outside China – report
Would make TikTok’s parent company one of Nvidia’s biggest customers
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US Supreme Court to review TikTok ban delay request
ByteDance hopes to make it till Trump's next term
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Microsoft bought twice as many Nvidia Hopper GPUs as other big tech companies - report
Acquired double the Nvidia chips as Meta, according to Omdia
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TikTok owner ByteDance eyes Thailand data center - report
Could open as soon as next year
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US DoJ alleges TikTok has been storing sensitive US customer data on China-based servers
Claims made in response to legal challenge against forced sale of the app
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TikTok ban could hit Oracle's cloud profits
Cloud provider includes warning to investors in annual report
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TikTok owner ByteDance to expand Malaysia data center footprint in $2.1bn AI deal
Minister hails boost for Malaysia's digital economy
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TikTok opens data center in Dublin, Ireland
After Covid delayed the project by a year-and-a-half
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Green Mountain gets green light for TikTok data center from Norwegian gov’t
But more stringent data center rules on the horizon
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Singapore selects Equinix, Microsoft, AirTrunk, and GDS for 80MW data center trial
First 80MW allocated as moratorium relaxed
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Green Mountain to build 90-150MW data center for TikTok in Norway
Making the bytes dance
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TikTok: Two more data centers in Europe, CFIUS pressured to conclude probe on whether to separate US org
Oracle Cloud is still the biggest winner of America's TikTok concerns
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Bridge Data Centres launches new facility in Johor, Malaysia
ByteDance to be anchor tenant
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ByteDance hires for in-house AI chip development
Joining the hyperscalers in building custom hardware
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TikTok's €420m Irish data center delayed due to Covid-19 construction shutdowns
Now expected late 2022
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TikTok reportedly picks Echelon for Irish data center
Clondalkin campus soon to be home to $500m data center