DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Business Operations
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Vodafone raises cost savings target for UK unit to £1bn
The previous figure was £700 million
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Council rejects 80MW data center in northern Italy
Municipality argues the plans go against its environmental policy
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Digital Realty begins work on KIX15 data center in Japan
New building on Osaka campus adds 24MW
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xAI's Michael Roberson joins OpenAI infrastructure team as commissioning program manager
As well as other SpaceXAI staff and former Meta employees
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Uncertainty over data center development in Trzebnica, Poland
Application unearthed by a local councilor who claimed details were hidden from scrutiny
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Anthropic-linked $366m data center project filed for in Cedar Creek, Texas
First building will be located on Earl Callahan Road
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Report: Nvidia plans to invest in inference chip startup d-Matrix
Follows reports that company was seeking to raise additional funds, targeting $5bn valuation
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SpaceX to acquire Grain's 800MHz spectrum assets to further advance carrier ambitions
As the company continues to push to challenge US telcos
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Iraqi gov't reveals plans for five data centers
New facilities to be located in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul
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ThisWay Global plans 73MW AI and HPC data center in Bryan, Texas
Will offer compute to researchers, public sector, and industry users
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PsiQuantum receives $150m conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to expand manufacturing and prototyping efforts
Funding will support ongoing expansion of company’s California factory
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IT service provider Infomaniak lists on Swiss stock exchange
The firm currently serves more than 300,000 European customers and operates three data centers in Switzerland
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Verizon exec overhaul claims chief network officer Adam Koeppe
Koeppe in a LinkedIn post explained that 'it’s time to move on to the next chapter'
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Neocloud Firmus cancels IPO, blames market volatility
Firm had reduced initial share price due to weak demand
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Nokia to cut more than 250 jobs in Finland - report
The cuts are part of the company's cost-cutting plans put forward in 2023
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KT Cloud plans 50MW data center project in Incheon, South Korea
KT Cloud will serve as the design, build, and operate partner
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Waste heat from Goodman data center in Frankfurt, Germany, to power district heating system
Firm will recover and supply 50MW to warm buildings and a swimming pool
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GlobalFoundries signs $2bn, five-year deal with TSMC for production of advanced packaging components
GF’s Malta, NY, fab will become first US source for supply of silicon interposers
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Oracle, Broadcom, and SpaceX looking to secure ten of billions in financing to support AI compute purchases – report
Broadcom is seeking $50bn, while SpaceX is looking to secure $40bn
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Google's €13bn data center buildout in Finland under investigation for 300-hectare forest removal
Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority requests reports from local municipalities
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Wolfspeed receives $1.5bn conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to boost domestic SiC and GaN production
Financing will also help advance a number of DoD initiatives
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Sesterce to invest $10bn in 600MW AI data center campus in Jämsä, Finland
Developer says it has already secured an anchor customer for the site
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Ghana awards 5G licenses to Telecel, MTN after slow rollout woes
Telecel plans to launch 5G in December
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Firmus drops IPO share price amid weak demand - report
Neocloud not attracting as much interest as it had hoped
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CoreWeave teams up with AdaniConneX for AI cloud region in India
Company will lease 240MW of capacity in Navi Mumbai
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1,000-year-old Scottish castle could be destroyed to make way for hyperscale data center
Developer says it will incorporate brickwork at 600MW campus
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AT&T to combine Forged Fiber 37, Gigapower into one JV
Carrier continues towards its 60 million buildout target
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Firmus tops out data center building in Tasmania
Indonesia site ready to start deploying HyperCube systems