DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Cloud & Hybrid Channel, 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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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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TikTok says outage is resolved, confirms it was an Oracle data center
Issues were caused by the harsh winter storm
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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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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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Trump extends ByteDance's TikTok sale window, again
Shortform vids, longform saga
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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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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
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White House in talks with Oracle and Microsoft over TikTok acquisition
Oracle would lead deal to acquire global operations
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TikTok migrates European data to Norwegian data center
Progress is made on "Project Clover"
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TikTok spent $20m a month on Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service - report
Accounting for a quarter of all spend on Azure OpenAI
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TikTok considers Australian data center - report
As ByteDance battles ban in the US
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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’s ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop AI chips
Advanced AI processors will be manufactured by TSMC
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Bill forcing sale of US TikTok signed by President Biden
Platform will be banned if it's not sold
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US House passes bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face ban
Oracle would have to stop hosting it, if it doesn't sell
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House Committee votes to force TikTok sale, would block US data centers from hosting app
Company relies on Oracle for American operations
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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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TikTok's Virginia data centers allowed unescorted visitors, unmarked flash drives in servers, and unattended boxes of hard drives
Short-term thinking for short-form video site
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ByteDance pledges to be operationally carbon neutral by 2030
Will see IT provider reduce emissions by at least 90 percent
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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