DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cristina Cueto, DCD
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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NxN enters Portugal with 1MW data center and plans to invest €100m
The company has finalized the acquisition a data center in Évora
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Balearic Islands launches new data center for critical government systems
The facility is integrated with a regional government data center in Sant Pere
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Orange drops MásOrange brand in Spain following full takeover
The carrier is now known as Orange España
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Nabiax breaks ground on 100MW data center in Madrid, Spain
Nabiax to reach 135MW of capacity in Spain across Madrid and Catalonia
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Nostrum's data center in Badajoz gets the green light for electrical connection
The power supply system includes a 400/220 kV substation
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Vodafone provides the UME with a private 5G network for emergencies
The solution enables the deployment of a Mobile Private Network (MPN) in the field that can provide a dedicated, secure, high-capacity network
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Telxius to build Edge data center in Cancún, Mexico
Facility will serve as the landing point for the Tikal submarine cable, which will connect Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, with Boca Raton, United States
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Telefónica sells former Madrid HQ for €200m
The building ceased to serve as the company's main corporate headquarters after Telefónica moved to Distrito Telefónica in Las Tablas
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Cuasar Capital plans 300MW data center campus in Durango, Mexico
Cuasar Capital and KA URBE IT will develop a 300MW campus in Durango designed for high-density artificial intelligence workloads
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Canalink lands Base4 subsea cable in Lanzarote
The operation is part of the Atlántica project to strengthen the archipelago's telecoms infrastructure
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Ecuador's Telconet opens data center in Guayaquil, targets another in Quito
Will be the company's third data center in Ecuador
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Vapat enters the data center market with a 160MW project in Valladolid, Spain
The project calls for the construction of two data center buildings, each with eight IT rooms
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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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Telecom Argentina prepares to offload fiber assets to push through $1.2bn of Telefónica Movistar unit in country
The carrier wants to ease fears of anti-competition in the Argentine telecoms market
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Rakuten Symphony and Viva sign MoU to modernize Bolivia's digital infrastructure
The MoU will evaluate technologies such as Open RAN
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Substrate AI establishes data center REIT to accelerate investments in AI infrastructure
New unit to hold Substrate's real estate assets, including planned data center in Toledo
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Claro bolsters Puerto Rico's connectivity with second AMX-1 landing station
Aims to increase resiliency of the island's telecommunications infrastructure
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Vodafone Spain seeks to replace Vantage Towers with Cellnex, American Tower agreements
As the telco looks to reduce its reliance on Vantage Towers
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Chubut aims to host Argentina's second international cable landing station
The province claims competitive advantages such as energy availability, geographic location, and presence of long-range connectivity infrastructure
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Solaer enters data center market with project in Chile
Company planning 197MW project in the Atacama Desert
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América Móvil acquires WOW Peru to bolster its fiber footprint
The acquisition will enable the company to strengthen its FTTH network in Peru
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Cirion begins repair work on damaged subsea cable off coast of Venezuela
The operations are carried out by the cable-laying vessel Wave Sentinel
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Atelco files for bankruptcy after Telefónica contract loss
The contract generated a significant portion of Atelco's business
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Digi launches Spanish IPO, values company at €1.66bn
The offering sets a price of €5.60 per share and combines a capital increase with the sale of shares by its Romanian parent company
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Spain's University of Granada to expand its supercomputing infrastructure with a second AI system
€3.5 million project will be funded through European Eunomia
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A1 Digital bets on Spain, expand Exoscale cloud infrastructure into country
The Austrian company announces its entry into the Spanish market with Exoscale, its sovereign cloud platform.
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Valfortec plans €300m data center campus in Alicante, Spain
The facility is expected to reach a capacity of approximately 60MW
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Krolmap plans 150MW data center campus in Aragón, Spain
Based on its projected capacity, the initiative ranks among the largest developments announced to date in the region