DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Europe, 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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OpenAI and Anthropic seek 20-30MW data center deployments
As companies ramp up inference footprint
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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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Google's European energy and infrastructure principle joins Mistral Compute
Marc Oman joins as AI firm looks to deploy 1GW
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Mistral raises €3bn in Series D led by Samsung Electronics
Plans to spend it on more compute
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Matt Clifford, man behind UK's AI Growth Zones plan, joins Anthropic
Plans to stay on at ARIA is "a clear conflict of interest," MP says
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UK Green Party calls for nationwide data center moratorium
Only 'local scale data centers for the local community' would be allowed
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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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KKR closes Global Infrastructure Investors V fund with $19.2bn to spend on infrastructure
Including data centers, energy, and other AI infrastructure
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Siemens Financial invests in UK data center operator Kao Data
As the company renews its renewable electricity supply agreement with Shell
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Microsoft UK's Thames Valley Park campus could be redeveloped as a gas-powered data center
Reading site set to head to public consultation
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Schneider Electric to acquire industrial AI business Cognite for $3.1bn
Folding into Aveva
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UK's Queen Alexandra Hospital declares critical incident as chillers fail at on-site data center
NHS facility struggles amid record heatwave
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LineShine: All-CPU Chinese supercomputer named world's most powerful
Huawei gear used in 2.198 exaflops supercomputer
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DCD Podcast - What data centers should expect from the next UK Prime Minister
Chatting to Kao Data's CEO Spencer Lamb about Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham
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SoftBank plans up to 5GW data center buildout in France, investment of up to €75bn
Will partner with Schneider Electric for a "large-scale industrial production cluster" at the Port of Dunkirk
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Kao Data appoints Spencer Lamb as CEO
Company to focus on UK data center buildout
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AWS operated 56.84 million square feet of data center and office space in 2025
A 16 percent increase on the year before
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Anthropic seeks data center leasing deals in Europe and Australia
As OpenAI retreats from Stargate Europe
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OpenAI drops out of multi-billion dollar UK investment plan, says Stargate UK is on hold
Blames energy prices and regulations
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Pharmaceutical company Roche deploys 3,500 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across hybrid cloud and on‐premises
Building on previous Genentech-Nvidia partnership
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UK to launch £500m Sovereign AI venture fund
As it also looks to boost UK data center compute
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Echelon Data Centres secures €1.7bn loan from Morgan Stanley
Plans to grow across Europe
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Ukrainian forces strike data center in Russian-occupied Prymorsk
Substation and airfield also targeted in drone strikes
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Neocloud Nscale hires Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as it plans IPO
But may raise $2bn first
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OpenAI CFO says company ended 2025 with 1.9GW of compute, scaled revenue at same speed
Claims a clear correlation between aggressive data center ramp-up and rising revenue
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Finnish police seize ship that allegedly cut subsea cable, detain Russian crew
Suspected sabotage in the Baltic Sea
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OpenAI hires former UK Chancellor George Osborne to lead global Stargate data center expansion
Austerity architect to focus on build out outside of the US
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US pauses tech prosperity deal with UK as trade talks drag on
Deal was only announced in September, but is already off the rails