DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Tencent
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Tencent Cloud plans cloud region in Malaysia
Will offer three availability zones
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Google inks carbon removal credits deal with Thryve.Earth for reforestation project in Sulawesi, Indonesia
The purchase was made through the Symbiosis Coalition
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Indonesian telco XLSMART migrates to Tencent Cloud
Migration relied heavily on AI technologies
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Alibaba Cloud needs 10x its 2022 compute capacity, says CEO Eddie Wu
While Tencent Cloud struggles to generate an ROI from GPUs
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Tencent and Alibaba in talks to invest in DeepSeek - report
Could see DeepSeek valued at $20bn
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Chinese cloud providers hike up prices for cloud and AI services
Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, and Baidu hop on the bandwagon
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China approves Nvidia H200 purchases for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent - report
Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit
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Tencent Cloud plans to expand data center footprint in the Middle East
Company is "actively exploring" constructing in the region
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Tencent in discussions to form carbon credit buying alliance - report
Could launch as soon as this year
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Tencent's capex down 24% YoY due to lack of access to GPUs
Expects capex to continue to decline
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Tencent says it doesn't need more GPUs for training and upgrading existing models
Politics be damned, Tencent has enough GPUs to be getting on with
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Tencent Cloud launches region in Osaka, Japan
Opens data center in the Kansai area
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Tencent slows GPU deployment, blames DeepSeek breakthrough
Says it can get more performance with less
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US and Chinese cloud providers offer access to DeepSeek models
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Huawei, and Alibaba Cloud among those to bring DeepSeek onboard
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Microsoft bought twice as many Nvidia Hopper GPUs as other big tech companies - report
Acquired double the Nvidia chips as Meta, according to Omdia
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Tencent launches renewable-powered microgrid project at data center in China
The project will use onsite wind power, solar PV, and battery energy storage in a microgrid solution to power an adjacent data center
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Alibaba Cloud revenue up 7% for the quarter, cites AI as key factor
Tencent also releases quarterly earnings
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Tencent to invest $500m for data center development in Indonesia
Chinese cloud provider will invest half a billion dollars by 2030
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GoTo Group signs five-year cloud deals with Tencent and Alibaba Cloud
Will use both company's cloud services
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Baidu obtains just five percent of energy from renewable sources - Greenpeace
Report highlights mixed sustainability progress of China's tech giants
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Tencent to expand cloud business in Saudi Arabia and UAE
Making significant investment in data storage
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Alibaba cuts cloud services costs by up to 55%, JD drops prices
While Chinese tech giants hog AI-training computing resources
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Tencent launches solar-powered microgrid at Chinese data center
The company says it generates enough electricity to power 6,000 houses
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China's tech giants order $5bn in Nvidia chips, including 100,000 A800 GPUs for 2023
Local hyperscalers want to get in on generative AI explosion, but can only get pared-back chips
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US gov't considering restrictions on China's access to American cloud providers
New regulation being mulled to close embargo loopholes
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Nvidia creates pared back H100 GPU for export to China, called H800
Worse data transfer rates to get past sanctions
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Tencent planning third data center in Japan
Company mulling expansion amid demand for gaming and livestreaming