DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Asia Pacific, Meta
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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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 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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FLAG acquires fiber pair on Google’s Echo subsea cable
Terms not shared
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Meta to partner with Sify Technologies on 500MW data center in Andhra Pradesh, India - report
Says person familiar with the matter
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Bifrost subsea cable now ready for service
US-Singapore cable to start carrying traffic in coming weeks
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SoftBank and Meta consortium announce Candle subsea cable connecting Japan to Singapore
Cable set to land in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia
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Indonesia’s Telin launches CLS for Bifrost Cable in Manado-Minahasa
Cable system will be nearly 20,000km long
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Meta raises AI data center capex forecast to up to $72bn, blames Trump tariffs for increased cost
"There’s just a lot of uncertainty around this"
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Meta signs 25-year floating solar supply agreement with Sembcorp in Singapore
Construction is expected to commence in 2027
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Meta's $800m offer turned down by AI chip start up FuriosaAI
Company will continue to grow independently
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Project Waterworth: Meta announces world’s longest subsea cable project spanning five continents
50,000km cable wraps around the world
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Meta in talks to acquire AI chip startup FuriosaAI – report
Deal could close as early as this month
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Meta to build ORCA Taiwan-US subsea cable
Will span 12,000km with three landing points
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Meta to build around-the-world subsea cable - report
Will connect one side of the US to the other, traversing three oceans
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Subsea cable roundup: Timelines for Google's US-Fiji Tabua cable shared
And details on Google and Meta's Echo cable system
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Transworld Associates to land 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan
Company contracted by China Mobile International and Meta
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Meta to lease Digital Connexion data center in Chennai - report
Deal reportedly signed at pre-wedding party
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Meta considers Indian data center – report
Company reportedly planning 10-20MW project to fuel Reels demand
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Meta on the hunt for ASIC engineers for custom chip projects
Company has posted job adverts looking for workers in India and California
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Australian ISP Move Up Internet to launch Meta-developed Terragraph gigabit technology
Will use Meta's Terragraph network
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Meta's 2Africa cable to land in Bharti Airtel's Mumbai cable landing station
World's longest subsea cable gets another partner
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WhatsApp down around the world in major outage for Meta service
Who says the metaverse is ready?
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Meta, Microsoft, and Fujitsu sign renewable energy PPAs
Meta signs for 300MW of solar in Denmark, Microsoft to power Chilean Azure region with wind and solar, Fujitsu signs wind deal in Australia