DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Enterprise, 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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Video game publisher Krafton to build $88m Nvidia B300 GPU cluster amid controversial 'AI-first' pivot
Subnautica 2 and PUBG publisher starts voluntary layoffs, as it fights with developers over $250m
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Google Cloud plans LA28 Games partnership, Alibaba Cloud teams up with NBA China
Cloud and AI services for games around the world
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UK supermarket Asda expands Microsoft Azure contract
After challenges from moving off of Walmart's tech stack
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Fermilab seeks 225PB+ magnetic tape library
As it continues to build out research efforts, including DUNE
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OpenAI drops plans to become a for-profit company, but also kills profit cap
Elon Musk's lawsuit appears to have worked, but OpenAI still gets to drop investment limiter
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Trump Media launches custom CDN for Truth+ streaming service
No technical details exist about Perception repackage
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Cogent fiber cut causes limited Bluesky outage, as platform sees record traffic from X exodus
Seeks to bring back the nostalgic magic of the Twitter fail whale
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DeepL to deploy Nvidia DGX GB200 SuperPod at Swedish data center
EcoDataCenter facility is already home to DeepL Mercury
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Wiwynn sues Elon Musk's X/Twitter over unpaid server bills
Wants $61m after company "abruptly stopped" paying
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Elon Musk: Tesla to bring 50,000 GPU cluster online, "doubling down" on Dojo supercomputer
Says it was in Tesla's interest to give GPUs to xAI
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Automotive expected to be Nvidia's "largest enterprise vertical" this year, as Tesla deploys 35,000 H100 GPUs
Autonomous training helps fuel sales boom
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Apple hires former Google data center AI exec to lead multi-cloud effort
Sumit Gupta also spent years at IBM and Nvidia
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Tesla's Austin Dojo data center behind schedule, Elon Musk fires construction manager
Amid Tesla layoffs, product cancelations, and declining sales
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Nvidia Omniverse comes to Apple Vision Pro, streamed from data centers
Spatial computing meets accelerated computing
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IT outage at UK supermarket Sainsbury's cancels "vast majority" of online orders
Contactless payments also stop working
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US House passes bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face ban
Oracle would have to stop hosting it, if it doesn't sell
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House Committee votes to force TikTok sale, would block US data centers from hosting app
Company relies on Oracle for American operations
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Zoom "decreasing dependence on cloud services," boosts colo data center portfolio to 29
High-profile AWS and Oracle cloud user heads back to colocation
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CERN opens French data center to support Large Hadron Collider experiments
Alongside existing Swiss facility
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Reddit uses AWS and Google Cloud, plans to spend at least $385m on cloud by September 2026
TL;DR: We read the IPO filing so that you don't have to
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Opera to deploy Nvidia AI cluster at atNorth data center in Iceland
To help train its Aria generative AI assistant
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LinkedIn pauses plans to close data centers and move to Microsoft Azure
Hits 'Ignore' on connection request
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Volkswagen resolves IT outage that brought German factories to a halt
Unspecified outage also impacted Porsche and Audi brands
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TikTok opens data center in Dublin, Ireland
After Covid delayed the project by a year-and-a-half
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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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Mayo Clinic to use Google Cloud for generative AI trials
Company was already a Google Cloud customer
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Musk blames straining servers on Twitter's messy DeSantis presidential bid launch
After shutting down data centers and cutting cloud spend
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Charity headed by controversial evangelist Franklin Graham builds data center due to alleged fears of being canceled
But AWS pushes back on Graham's allegations