DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale, Equinix
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Equinix, Together AI, Nvidia partner on Inference Exchange
Aims to give enterprises access to secure, low-latency AI inferencing
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AI data center and sovereign cloud launched in Papua New Guinea
And other sovereign cloud news
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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FuriosaAI deploys its RNGD servers at Equinix data center in Lisbon, Portugal
Scale of deployment not stated
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Equinix officially retires bare metal offering
The short-lived rise and fall of Equinix Metal
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Groq deploys AI infrastructure in data center in Sydney, Australia
Company's entrance into Asia-Pacific
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Groq leases space at Equinix data center in Helsinki, Finland
Brings its AI inference offering to Europe
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Hyve launches data center presence in Frankfurt, Germany
Hosting company working with Equinix
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Equinix teams up with Dell Technologies for private AI solution
Will use the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia for offering
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Equinix to kill off Metal by June 2026
No longer selling the service, previously known as Packet
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Japan’s Sakura Internet looks to buy 10,000 GPUs a year
Company expanding its Ishikari data center in Hokkaido to accommodate new hardware
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Nebius deploys AI cluster at Equinix data center in Paris
First cluster totally equipped with own-design servers
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Matt Renner takes charge of Google Cloud's global sales operation
He succeeds Equinix-bound Adaire Fox-Martin
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Zoom "decreasing dependence on cloud services," boosts colo data center portfolio to 29
High-profile AWS and Oracle cloud user heads back to colocation
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Nasdaq continues cloud migration to AWS
Stock exchange moves second matching engine to AWS
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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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Oracle launches EU Sovereign cloud
Launches two regions in Spain and Germany isolated from public OCI regions
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Equinix uses Google Cloud Platform for its machine learning operations
Should make the company’s MLOps more scalable
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Quantinuum names Raj Hazra as chief executive officer
Plus appointments and promotions at Switch, JLL, Equinix, and more
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Equinix offers VMware cloud on its bare metal service
Cloud infrastructure as-a-service on bare metal as-a-service
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Equinix forms another $525 million joint venture with GIC for hyperscale facilities in South Korea
Colo giant partners with Singapore's sovereign wealth fund for two xScale facilities in Seoul; takes pair's total hyperscale investment to ~$7.5 billion
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Nasdaq signs extension with Equinix to stay in New Jersey data center
Stock exchange reaffirms its commitment to Carteret facility, weeks after AWS agreement
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Equinix brings new processors and Nvidia's AI tech to its Metal service
Bare metal service offers new arm processors from Ampere, as well as new AMD and Intel chips
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Nasdaq to migrate to AWS, use on-premise data center as Private AWS Local Zone
US stock exchange aiming for hybrid model
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Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form $575m JV to build hyperscale facilities in Australia
Bringing 55MW to Sydney across two facilities, first if which due early next year
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Equinix inaugurates xScale data center in São Paulo, Brazil
Company opens first hyperscale facility in Americas, plans a second in the same city and another in Mexico City
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Equinix announces major expansion of hyperscale data center portfolio, $3.9bn in funding
Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund adding another $3.9 billion onto previous investments, companies will have portfolio of 32 xScale facilities
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Equinix boosts Packet's Tinkerbell open source bare metal provisioning system
Metal-as-a-service gets a bit more magical