DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - UK & Ireland, 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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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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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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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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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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Kao Data appoints Spencer Lamb as CEO
Company to focus on UK data center buildout
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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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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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Neocloud Nscale hires Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as it plans IPO
But may raise $2bn first
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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
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UK and Norway plan joint naval patrols to protect subsea cables from Russia
Following Yantar's encroachment on UK waters
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Neocloud Fluidstack in talks to raise $700m at $7bn valuation - report
Google-backed company moves HQ to New York
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'IT issue' at Edinburgh Airport causes all flights to be suspended
No information on when flights will resume
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UK announces fourth AI Growth Zone in South Wales
But data centers were already planned at the site
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Russian spy ship appears to surveil subsea cables in UK waters, shines lasers at military jets
UK Defence Secretary calls Yantar's actions a “deeply dangerous” move
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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including DCD)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted
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UK plans AI Growth Zone in North Wales, announces data center power and planning reforms
Says it will speed up time to build, and cut energy costs
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Bloomberg claims UK gov't considered destroying London data center with Chinese owners over spy concerns
Amid broader allegations of Chinese espionage and hacking claims
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QTS starts site preparation for $13bn Northumberland, UK, data center
Project could grow to 720MW
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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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OpenAI announces Stargate UK, with up to 8,000 GPUs at Nscale data centers
Following Nscale's Microsoft deal
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CoreWeave plans £1.5bn UK AI data center investment, will deploy Nvidia GPUs at Scotland's DataVita data center
As part of week of UK data center announcements
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DCD Magazine out now: The UK's copper switch-off
How BT and Openreach are approaching the end of copper
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Former OpenAI exec Jade Leung named UK Prime Minister’s new AI advisor
After Matt Clifford, author of the nation's AI data center strategy, departed in June