DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Meta
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Meta signs 144MW solar PPA with Apex in Texas
Seventh agreement between the two companies
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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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Meta to expand Eagle Mountain data center campus in Utah
Fourth expansion company has announced at campus
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Meta's $1.2bn data center in Kuna, Idaho, goes live
Facility is the company's second AI-optimized data center
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AEP Ohio secures $18m from data center firms for bill assistance program
Meta, QTS, Amazon, SoftBank Energy, and Google all commit funds to the program
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Meta files for subsea cable connecting the US and Denmark
Known as the Aurora system
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Google and Meta’s Echo subsea cable lands in Singapore
Cable now stretches from Singapore to California
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Meta boosts AI data center capex, forecasts $130-145bn spend
Shares drop as spending increases, and free cash flow falls
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Meta and BlackRock team up for data center in El Paso, Texas
Will offer 1GW of compute capacity
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Meta leaves RE100 climate initiative - report
Due to increase in natural gas procurement
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Meta inks 172MW solar PPA with Lightsource BP in Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Construction on the solar farm expected to start this year
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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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Meta to deploy custom AMD Instinct MI450-based GPU, is 'lead customer' for Venice Epyc CPU
As part of ongoing 6GW AMD rollout
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Meta starts operations at data center in Temple, Texas
Facility the result of $1.2bn in investment
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Fire at Meta data center construction site in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Fire Department dispatched at 5:37pm, July 19
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Anthropic considers leasing compute from Meta in $10bn deal
As Meta increasingly looks set to become a cloud provider
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AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report
After Meta reveals plans for its own cloud business
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Crusoe to develop 1.4GW data center campus in Childress, Texas
Company partners with Lancium again
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Meta expands data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5GW & $50bn
Company will also invest $1bn in local infrastructure improvements
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Meta could start production of Iris AI chip in September – report
Company worked with Broadcom and TSMC on design and manufacture of chip
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Meta plans $9.17bn gigawatt-scale data center in Alberta, Canada
Marks social media giant's first data center in the country
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Meta rebuilds its AI storage stack from the ground up to stop GPUs sitting idle
An inside look at how the wannabe cloud provider cuts data wait times by up to 97 percent
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Meta pushes ahead with plans to launch cloud business - report
Shortly after CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased possibility
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Google limits Meta's AI use due to capacity constraints - report
Had to restrict other customers as well
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Meta signs 220MW PPA with Sabanci in Texas
Adds to a growing renewable portfolio in the state
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Meta and Microsoft add more than $120bn in future lease commitments in latest quarter
Total lease commitments now more than $850bn
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Meta signs 1.6GW capacity agreement with Crusoe - report
Will be from Childress, Texas, and Warrenton, Missouri, data centers
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Frontier consortium to invest a further $915m into carbon removal tech
Anthropic joins the team