DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
Comes after the company pulled back on plans for its Ireland location
Concerns about indigenous rights, the environment, and the constitution
The 50 billion reais project will be carried out in Caucaia and likely host TikTok
Operations slated for January 2027
Company reportedly in talks with renewable energy producer Casa dos Ventos
Follows January's $3.8 billion agreement in the county
TikTok owner increasing compute capacity to meet AI demands
Could open as soon as next year
After Covid delayed the project by a year-and-a-half
But more stringent data center rules on the horizon
First 80MW allocated as moratorium relaxed
Making the bytes dance
Oracle Cloud is still the biggest winner of America's TikTok concerns
ByteDance to be anchor tenant
Now expected late 2022
Clondalkin campus soon to be home to $500m data center
The data center will serve the company's main tenent, ByteDance
Inner Mongolia is becoming a serious hotspot for data centers
World's most valuable startup, ByteDance, doesn't want to fall foul of potential data sovereignty laws