DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - India, 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 in talks with Tata Consultancy Services for Indian Stargate data center - report
After Reliance Industries negotiations reportedly stall
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Equinix opens its first data center in Chennai, India
India—CN1 to be connected to the company's Mumbai campus
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Oracle continues widespread layoffs across US, India, Philippines, and beyond
The company has yet to communicate the move internally or externally
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Airtel outage impacts mobile users in India
Jio and Vodafone Idea users also report issues, but likely tied to Airtel
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Significant layoffs at Oracle, job cuts impact US and India OCI teams
Scale of the cuts not yet known
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Schneider Electric says European data center market is picking up, raises prices globally due to tariffs
Says it will take Motivair global
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Google plans $6bn 1GW data center in India's Andhra Pradesh - report
Vizag data center could be the largest in Asia
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Schneider Electric to fully take over its Indian division in $6.4bn deal
Will buy out Temasek's shares
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Schneider Electric considering taking full stake in India JV
Would buy out Temasek's shares
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OpenAI exec tours APAC for possible Stargate data center sites - report
Jason Kwon heads to Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, and Singapore
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OpenAI pitches Stargate beyond US, says it could work with 10 countries
But projects will be "in coordination with the US government"
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Schneider Electric sees double digit data center growth, scores ByteDance as a customer
India becomes company's third-largest overall market
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Project Waterworth: Meta announces world’s longest subsea cable project spanning five continents
50,000km cable wraps around the world
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Blackstone's prospective data center pipeline hits $100bn, on top of $70bn portfolio
A massive jump over just a few months back
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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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Widespread Reliance Jio outage disconnects Indian mobile and fiber Internet users
Huge telco goes down across India
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India's Yotta to buy another $500m of Nvidia GPUs for its data centers
As it builds out a local AI cloud
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CtrlS Datacenters to invest $2bn over 6 years expanding across Asia and Middle East
As well as continued build out in India
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Nvidia partners with Reliance Jio for 2,000MW of AI data centers, Tata for AI cloud in India
Companies will build local large language models and generative AI tools
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Minor fire at AdaniConneX data center construction site
Quickly put out, and no injuries
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Semiconductor consortium ISMC plans $3bn chip fab in India
Co-partner Tower Semiconductor is set to be acquired by Intel, giving it a presence in India
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Adani and UPS sign Google Cloud deals
Even though Adani has its own data center business
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India plans to classify data centers as 'infrastructure,' making loans and investments easier
Large energy storage projects will also get the infrastructure moniker
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India approves $10 billion plan to attract semiconductor and display manufacturers
Will fund up to half of a chip fab's construction costs
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Tata Group plans $300 million semiconductor assembly and test unit in India
Tata enters the semiconductor industry
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Report: Reliance Industries considering acquiring BT
Update: Company denies the claim
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India's Tamil Nadu government releases data center policy
New incentives for data centers with some renewable power
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Brookfield buys 30-acres near Mumbai for data center development
Likely part of its BAM Digital Realty partnership