DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - North America, 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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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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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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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 signs 220MW PPA with Sabanci in Texas
Adds to a growing renewable portfolio in the state
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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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Meta's Sham Parmar joins Anthropic's data center supply chain team
To focus on power and cooling infrastructure for data center buildouts
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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 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's Andrew Rudersdorf joins Anthropic's data center energy team
As Anthropic expands, and Meta contracts
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Data center operators offer potential job opportunities to laid off Meta workers
The industry is booming, but hyperscalers keep cutting jobs
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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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Real estate developer Panattoni takes over Meta-backed data center proposal in southern Wisconsin
But residents remain unhappy
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Meta signs PPAs with Desri for 850MW of power across three US states
Projects span Oklahoma, Texas, and Mississippi
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Meta signs 250MW PPA with EDP Renewables NA in Arkansas
Project expected to be operational in 2028