DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Colocation & Wholesale, Microsoft
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Iren delivers first phase of AI capacity to Microsoft in Texas
More on the Horizon
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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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Microsoft UK's Thames Valley Park campus could be redeveloped as a gas-powered data center
Reading site set to head to public consultation
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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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Oracle denies $3bn Microsoft data center deal collapsed over security and compliance concerns
The two were previously in discussion for a lease deal
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Prime Group to deploy Edge compute at self-storage sites across US
Company lists dozens of potential storage locations for potential Edge use cases
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Crusoe confirms Microsoft as customer at campus in Abilene, Texas
Cloud giant will lease 900MW
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Microsoft agrees to lease 700MW at Crusoe's data center in Abilene, Texas - report
Talks conclude: Microsoft gets the gig
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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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UK announces fourth AI Growth Zone in South Wales
But data centers were already planned at the site
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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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Hyperscalers pause data center leases in India due to trade uncertainty - report
Projects are still in the pipeline, but facing delays
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Microsoft breaks ground on data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Few details of project available, but due to launch in 2026
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Aruba and Microsoft team up to bring Azure Local to Italy
Will be hosted in Aruba's data centers
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Goodman Group hires Microsoft’s Kraig Knight as data center operations EVP
As Goodman looks to expand data center offerings
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Civo partners with Orbital to pilot carbon removal technology at UK data center
Microsoft signs SAF carbon offset deal with IAG
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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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Microsoft signs three vPPAs with EDP Renewables in Illinois and Texas
Will supply Microsoft with 389MW of power
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Microsoft to build four data centers in Irving, Texas
QTS receives similar incentive package for three previously filed projects
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Zoom "decreasing dependence on cloud services," boosts colo data center portfolio to 29
High-profile AWS and Oracle cloud user heads back to colocation
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Microsoft plans data center campus in Naas, Ireland
As former HP site in Kildare gains planning permission for four data center buildings
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Singapore selects Equinix, Microsoft, AirTrunk, and GDS for 80MW data center trial
First 80MW allocated as moratorium relaxed
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Sabey president says hyperscalers are blocking colo efficiency improvements - Report
Big cloud players run their own data centers warmer, but insist on over-cooling by wholesale providers, says Sabey's Rob Rockwood
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AirTrunk to procure energy from biogas plant in Hong Kong for Microsoft
Company to procure renewable energy from landfill site
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iseek wins Queensland government contract, Bank of Queensland to go all-in on Azure
Legacy on-premise being dropped in Australia
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Australian Defence Department signs contracts with Canberra Data Centres and Data#3
Company spends nearly AU$200 million on data center and cloud contracts
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Atmosera sells data center business to Digital Fortress in order to focus on Azure services
Oregon MSP offloads data centers as it shifts business to only delivering Microsoft Azure services