DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale, Twitter
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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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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Twitter pays Google Cloud bill, fixes relationship – report
New CEO Yaccarino smooths over payment spat
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Twitter refusing to pay Google Cloud bill – report
Musk repeats negotiation tactics tried on AWS
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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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Twitter tries to renegotiate deals with Amazon and Oracle
And stops paying other bills
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Twitter plans $1bn in infrastructure and cloud cost savings, after Musk purchase increases debt
Will make outages and errors more likely
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Twitter experiencing partial outage
Following similar issues yesterday
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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 expands AWS partnership, moves feed to the cloud
And plans to use Amazon's custom Arm chips
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Tech companies grapple with Hong Kong's new Security Law
Employees at Google and Facebook could be jailed if they refuse new Chinese censorship requests, while data centers could be raided
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AMD launches 2nd gen Epyc server CPU, signs Google and Twitter as customers
Data centers are set to get more Epyc
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Google forms Montreal AI research group
Continues to grow AI division in Canada, US and UK