DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Standards & Regulations, 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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Environmental group sues over energy demand forecasts for Meta's planned AI data center campus in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Expected to span more than 700,000 sq ft
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Trump declares "national energy emergency," introduces raft of directives to support fossil fuel sector
Cited the rising energy demand of data centers
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AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Schneider Electric call for greater supplier transparency on Scope 3 emissions
Because it's hard to fix what you can't track
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Meta's Northland data center leads to legal battle between father and son
Father and son sue each other over utility work at the Missouri site
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Meta accuses former VP of taking employee and supplier data to Omniva, files lawsuit
Accused exec had been with the company for 12 years
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Dutch gov't removes zoning permission for Zeewolde land earmarked for Meta data center
Meta had already given up, new decision prevents anyone else with similar plans
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Oregon data center energy bill fails, Idaho limits data center tax breaks
Amazon wins, Meta loses
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Idaho lawmakers look to limit tax breaks on data centers again
New bill to prevent double dipping makes more progress than previous attempt
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Idaho bill limiting data center tax breaks stumbles
Data centers still allowed to double dip on tax benefits in the state
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Idaho considers limiting tax breaks for data centers
Rep. John Gannon says you can sales or property tax benefits, not both
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Meta asks the ITU to stop adding "leap seconds" to alter time
The last leap second, at the end of 2016, caused a Cloudflare outage
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Dutch government won't sell Zeewolde land to Meta, hyperscale data center development moratorium moves forward
Draft decision would ban large data centers outside of two regions
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Dutch Senate votes for motion to prevent further site works at Meta's Zeewolde data center
Lawmakers want site prep stopped while government negotiates land sale
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Meta data center in Zeewolde facing opposition by Dutch Housing Minister
Former Deputy PM Hugo de Jonge hopes stricter requirements for data centers will prevent the development of the hyperscale