DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Connectivity, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Zankore secures $3.1bn senior term loan facility for AI cloud build-out
Will build initial 100MW of capacity, scaling to 1GW
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GoPro to enter AI data center market via merger with optical photonics company
Company has entered into a merger agreement with Action Acquisitions and Starman Optical
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Meta files for subsea cable connecting the US and Denmark
Known as the Aurora system
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Wasabi to provide cloud object storage to Megaport
As the Network-as-a-Service provider continues to enter neocloud race
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Google plans "connectivity hub" in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Will be the first of four hubs in Africa
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BT and StackIT partner on sovereign cloud in EU
Lidl owner's IT firm will provide cloud platform, BT will handle Internet connectivity
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Telenor launches standalone Nordic sovereign cloud business
Will be based in data centers in Norway
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CoreWeave partners with Google Cloud on cross-cloud training and inference
Launches "CoreWeave Interconnect"
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Akamai deploys Nvidia "AI Grid" across 4,400 Edge locations, claims to be first
Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T, and Crown Castle follow suit
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Starcloud to launch AWS Outposts hardware in space, aims to deploy fleet of 88,000 satellites
Data centers in space startup rockets ahead with plans
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BCS East subsea cable connecting Latvia and Lithuania damaged
Repairs underway
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AWS and Google Cloud partner on multicloud networking
Two cloud giants come together to create a "more open cloud environment"
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Microsoft reveals next generation Cobalt CPU and Azure Boost
Cobalt 200 approaches
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Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation launches Vaka cable
First subsea cable in the country
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London Stock Exchange cedes exclusive access to data center rooftop for high-speed connectivity
Follows probe investigating if this limited competition for high frequency trading
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NASA puts acquisition plans for lunar communications ground stations on hold
Cites uncertainty in the department's "budgetary situation" as reason
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Real Madrid and Cisco to develop data center at training campus
Will be used for AI, as well as "traditional" workloads
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UK's Transport for London plans £1.5bn network overhaul
Contract expected to run between 2029 and 2035
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US Weather Agency network could collapse when contract ends
NOAA's N-Wave system is set to lapse this week
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Nexthop AI launches with $110m funding round
Promises custom networking solutions for hyperscalers
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Gaia-X and DE-CIX develop prototype interconnection infrastructure
Project Tellus completes implementation phase
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SiTime launches single-chip timing solution for AI compute nodes
Will improve synchronization across AI compute clusters
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AWS launches Data Transfer Terminals so users can drop off data to the cloud
Cloud giant makes unusual move for physical data upload locations
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Broadband providers invested $94.7bn in US comms infrastructure last year
USTelecom says it is second-highest annual investment in 22 years
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AMD launches new high frequency trading accelerator
AMD Alveo UL3422 achieves less than 3ns FPGA transceiver latency
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AWS owes Acceleration Bay $30.5m for networking and broadcasting patent infringement
CloudFront content delivery system and Virtual Private Cloud infringe two patents jury finds
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Nokia to develop networking backbone for CoreWeave's AI cloud
Company also launches data center automation platform
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FDA seeks high-speed direct connections from its data centers to cloud regions
Seeks to connect the FDA's Ashburn data center and White Oak data center to the cloud