DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Telecoms & Connectivity Channel, 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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Meta files for subsea cable connecting the US and Denmark
Known as the Aurora system
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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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Ukraine's military strikes Dubna satellite comms center in Russia
Just one week after previous strikes
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Indonesian telco XLSMART migrates to Tencent Cloud
Migration relied heavily on AI technologies
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SK Telecom plots "gigawatt scale" AI cloud in South Korea with Nvidia
Will be based on the Nvidia DSX platform
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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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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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UK altnet G.Network acquired by FitzWalter Capital
Meanwhile, US ISPs Point Broadband and Clearwave Fiber merge
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BCS East subsea cable connecting Latvia and Lithuania damaged
Repairs underway
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Damaged communications tower in Los Angeles brings down parking enforcement radios
Suspected to be caused by copper theft
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Vodacom to migrate data assets to Google Cloud
Pan-African telco will move its data to the cloud platform
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Google and Turkcell team up for cloud region and data center in Türkiye
Turkcell will act as infrastructure provider and service reseller
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Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation launches Vaka cable
First subsea cable in the country
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SoftBank and Oracle team up on sovereign cloud in Japan
Will be based on Oracle Alloy
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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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BT signs new five-year agreement with AWS
Expands on telco's ongoing cloud migration efforts
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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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Q2 2025 saw government-directed Internet shutdowns in Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Panama - Cloudflare
Follows a short global respite
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Proximus and Thales win IT modernization contract from NATO
Thales will provide cloud infrastructure for organization
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North Korea experiences hours-long Internet outage
Presumed to be related to an internal issue
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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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AWS retires Private 5G service
Cloud's Private 5G officially no longer accessible
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Zero government-directed Internet shutdowns in Q1 2025 - Cloudflare
Third time ever in Cloudflare's report history
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Deutsche Telekom expands relationship with Google Cloud
Two companies extend strategic agreement to 2030
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Australia's Optus creates unified data platform for migration to the cloud
Worked with Microsoft, Tech Mahindra, and Databricks
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Spark NZ expands partnership with HPE for GreenLake cloud
New Zealand telco to use IT vendor's cloud offering