DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Business Operations, Twitter
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Wiwynn adds two new counts to $61m lawsuit against Elon Musk’s X
Now accuses social network of intentional misrepresentation and negligent misrepresentation
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Wiwynn sues Elon Musk's X/Twitter over unpaid server bills
Wants $61m after company "abruptly stopped" paying
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Elon Musk’s Twitter/X granted $10 million tax break for AI hardware in Georgia
Company had threatened to focus AI deployment in Portland if not given incentive - even though most of it is already deployed in Atlanta
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Elon Musk’s Twitter/X denied tax break for AI hardware in Georgia
Company claimed tax break would prevent it relocating to Portland, but then said it would be staying regardless of outcome
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X/Twitter claims $100m in annual savings after exiting Sacramento data center
Company also cites savings from cloud repatriation moves
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Twitter fails to pay bills due to Oracle for months – report
Musk takes on his friend Larry Ellison, who owns a stake in the social media firm
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Tesla signs lease for Sacramento data center vacated by Twitter, in area Musk once criticized
May take over another Twitter data center in the region
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Twitter refused to pay AWS bill, so Amazon refused to pay for ads
Musk's Twitter is still $70m behind on payments
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Report: Twitter is shutting down Sacramento data center, downsizing Atlanta facility
After Elon Musk loads the company with debt
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Elon Musk threatens to run Twitter server team if CEO found
But warns becoming CEO would be "foolish" - any takers?
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Twitter tries to renegotiate deals with Amazon and Oracle
And stops paying other bills
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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
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Twitter plans to build out new data center as platform grows
But details on the project are limited
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Tech industry reacts negatively to Trump travel ban
As do stock markets
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The UK's Investigatory Powers Bill demands mass storage of private data
Great for storage vendors, not so good for citizens
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Trump opposes transfer of ICANN control out of the US
“Or Internet freedom will be lost for good, since there will be no way to make it great again once it is lost”