DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale, 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 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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Meta files for subsea cable connecting the US and Denmark
Known as the Aurora system
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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 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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AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report
After Meta reveals plans for its own cloud business
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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 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 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
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Meta inks 298MW solar PPA with RWE in Bowie County, Texas
Fourth PPA between the two companies
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Meta inks deal for 168MW of data center space at new Reliance Industries data center in Gujarat, India
Also announced 900MW clean energy purchases
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Meta signs 180MW solar PPA with Zelestra in Freestone County, Texas
Brings the total contracted capacity between the two companies to 1.4GW
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Meta toys with offering cloud computing services
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's "definitely on the table"
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Elemental Impact launches intitiative with major hyperscalers to accelerate energy and materials technology development
Partner companies include Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft
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XGS partners with Baker Hughes to advance Meta-linked 150MW geothermal project in New Mexico
Baker Hughes will provide engineering services for the project
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Meta expands clean energy partnership with Enbridge, inks solar + storage deal in Wyoming
Adds to 600MW PPA signed last year in Texas
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Meta signs PPAs with Desri for 850MW of power across three US states
Projects span Oklahoma, Texas, and Mississippi