DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Government & Military
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Thailand set to finalize new data center regulations by mid-October - report
Expected to classify data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW hyperscale facilities
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DOE unveils $1.9bn in funding for 31 grid upgrade projects to speed data center connections
Expected to unlock 23GW of additional capacity on the grid
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Victoria, Australia, proposes rules requiring data centers to secure own renewable energy supply
Alongside several other provisions to prevent cost shifting and excessive water use
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Australian Senate calls for nationalized Triple Zero service following several high-profile outages
Telstra operates the system that connects Australian phone calls to 000
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California governor signs seven-bill package targeting data center energy and water use
Seeks to shield ratepayers from bearing the cost associated with data center buildout
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Abbott halts new Texas data center permits pending ERCOT audit
ERCOT claims the audit will be completed by December
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Virginia’s Loudoun County board votes to pause new data center applications
County introduces 12-month moratorium in data center hotspot
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Brazil's President Lula signs ReData data center bill into law
The bill was passed by the Senate in September
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Russia claims strikes on De Novo data center in Kyiv, Ukraine
Strikes were part of a wider infrastructure attack
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Politicians in Scotland set to vote on national data center moratorium
Would put a pause on projects of 50MW and up
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Pentagon in talks to loan Fluidstack $5bn - report
Money would come from Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital
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Amid data center public backlash, Yvette Eden Ruiz joins OpenAI’s Community Engagement team from JPMorgan
As data centers become an issue for the midterms, OpenAI looks to change the message
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DISA launches tender for $21.6bn JWCC contracts
Cloud providers have until October 6 to submit bids
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Parallel Works and CoreWeave partner on cloud platform for DARPA
Jointly develop managed AI and HPC platform for the NODES program
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Ivory Coast targets launch of first state-owned data center in 2027
Will be backed by US Export-Import Bank
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Moscow bans cryptomining until end of 2032, citing power concerns
Cryptocurrency mining consumes approximately 1GW of power in Moscow alone
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California lawmakers pass data center ratepayer protection bills, send to governor for approval
If passed, the legislation would create separate electricity tariffs for large data centers
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India mulls removal of legacy Chinese telecoms kit - report
Could India become the latest market to rip and replace Chinese telecoms equipment?
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ReData data center bill approved by Brazilian senate, will now go to president for signing
The bill will not need to be put to a new vote in the House
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Matt Clifford, man behind UK's AI Growth Zones plan, joins Anthropic
Plans to stay on at ARIA is "a clear conflict of interest," MP says
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US defense contractor Northrop Grumman awarded $7m for diamond-cooled chip technology
Funding was awarded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Trump admin considers more semiconductor tariffs, could include data center servers
Because it went so well before
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New Jersey governor signs law requiring data centers to report energy and water use
Follows new rate class establishment in July
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Australian gov't drops plans for data center renewable energy mandate - report
After objections from two regional governments
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Delaware enacts clean energy mandate for hyperscale data centers
As well as several new laws targeting the sector
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Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts seeks vendor for two colocation data centers
Currently uses Digital Realty and Csquare through a third-party vendor
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Colombia halts construction of 1,600km fiber network in the Amazon
The technical and financial complexity of the deployment has led the government to withdraw the procurement process
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80 percent of Democratic and Republican candidates for governor have expressed a stance on data centers
Data centers are on the ballot – and people don't like them