DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Edge & IoT, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Ukraine says Nvidia Jetson gear found in Russian S-71M missile
Calls for stronger sanctions to stop tech reaching Russia
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SambaNova raises $1bn in Series F round, AI compute company valued at $11bn
JPMorganChase to deploy RDUs for on-prem inference
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DARPA O-CIRCUIT program aims to develop 'unconventional biological processing units' for AI training and inference at the Edge
Looking to fly brains for organoid cytomorphic intelligence, may make them play Ms. Pac-Man and put them in smelling drones
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Elon Musk says SpaceX "will be doing" data centers in space
Timelines and scale unclear
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Parler to rename its cloud as EdgeCast Cloud Services
After picking up assets from Edgio bankruptcy
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Right wing social media platform Parler buys assets from bankrupt Edgio, acquires Triton DataCenter
Building a conservative delivery network
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China sends Star Eye payload into space with Loongson CPUs
System operational on Tiangong Space Station
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Trump Media launches custom CDN for Truth+ streaming service
No technical details exist about Perception repackage
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Sidus Space to build six data storage spacecraft to orbit the Moon for Lonestar Data
As an early step towards Moon data centers
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Lumen Orbit raises more than $10m for AI training data centers in space
Lofty ambitions; 5GW data center satellite powered by 4km sq solar array
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Amazon acquires Edge chip and AI model compression company Perceive
$80m deal aimed at end-user devices
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India's Krutrim plans three chips and 1GW cloud expansion from 2026
For AI, general compute, and the Edge
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Tesla spent $1bn on AI infrastructure in Q1, Elon Musk posits using cars as distributed compute
Company says it has 35,000 Nvidia H100 GPU equivalents in operation
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Lumen Orbit raises $2.4m for space data centers
Satellites with GPUs for orbiting compute
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Flexnode raises $8.85m for modular Edge data centers
Following COOLERCHIPS contract from the Department of Energy
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Lonestar Data tests data storage concept on lunar surface
Manages to send Declaration of Independence to the Moon in Odysseus' final days
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HPE readies launch of upgraded ISS-based Spaceborne Computer-2
The third time it has gone to space
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EU to spend €1.2bn funding European cloud and Edge efforts
Hopes to break the US hyperscaler cloud monopoly
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Lunar data center company Lonestar Data raises $825,000
After a $5m fund raise
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to deploy 'in-space' cloud computing capability
Will Blue Ring work with Amazon Web Services?
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Lonestar plans to transmit US Declaration of Independence to Moon-based mini data center
Will also send it back as a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service test
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Cloudflare to deploy Nvidia GPUs at the Edge for generative AI inference - in up to 300 data centers
Will only support six models at launch
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AI Edge chip company Kneron raises $49m
Focuses on automotive and Edge compute
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BMW deepens AWS partnership, will move autonomous vehicle data to the cloud
ADAS will be stored, trained, and rolled out from AWS servers
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UK Edge data center company DataQube files for insolvency
While Iconic Data Centres spins up to potentially offer the same thing
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Amazon switches rocket, plans Kuiper Internet launch next month
Test launch comes amid launch bottlenecks
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Nvidia acquires OmniML for AI Edge workloads
Quietly picked up the startup early this year
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Equinix Metal & Edge head Zac Smith leaves company
Next venture not disclosed