DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Colocation & Wholesale, Meta
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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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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Crusoe to develop 1.4GW data center campus in Childress, Texas
Company partners with Lancium again
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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 and Microsoft add more than $120bn in future lease commitments in latest quarter
Total lease commitments now more than $850bn
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Microsoft and Meta commit to $50bn in additional data center leases in most recent quarter
Brings overall future leases for hyperscalers to more than $700bn
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Microsoft in talks for the Crusoe Abilene capacity OpenAI's Stargate skipped - report
Could lease hundreds of megawatts of capacity
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Meta buys land adjacent to Los Lunas campus in New Mexico, possible expansion - report
475 acres could be added to existing campus
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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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US data center capacity leasing in Q3 exceeds entirety of 2024
Q3 saw a record 7.4GW of data center leasing
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US tech companies contract 48GW of clean energy year on year amid AI boom - report
S&P report recorded a 66.4 percent increase in contracted clean energy capacity between its 2024 and 2025 updates
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Meta & QTS sign solar PPA with Avangrid & PGE in Oregon
The PPA will supply solar energy to a Meta data center QTS is developing
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Meta officially announces data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Facebook parent company reveals more project details
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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 rents data centers in Spain from Merlin Properties
Becomes first main client for company
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DC Blox opens Myrtle Beach cable landing station in South Carolina
Google and Meta to land cables at new facility
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Meta sells land in Mesa, Arizona to data center developer EdgeCore
Meta to maintains ownership of adjacent land
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AFR-IX Telecom's Barcelona cable landing station goes live, receives 2Africa cable
New CLS also set to host Medusa cable
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Meta and TikTok drive US data center leasing boom
Microsoft has fallen back since last year, but Meta (Facebook) is storming away