DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - North America, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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American Tower and Cloudnexion sign agreement over Edge data center services
AT's Edge locations are now being offered to Cloudnexion's clients
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CoreSite opens first phase of Los Angeles data center, LA3
Phase 1 is now online
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HPE to move headquarters out of Silicon Valley to Houston, Texas
Where it already had a substantial presence
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Aqua Comms launches US-Denmark AEC-2 submarine cable
The cable forms part of the North Atlantic Loop
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TerraScale hires Google's Michael Coleman as CIO
His first job will be to oversee the company's Nevada data center project
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Microsoft behind Georgia data center campus, officials grant $14m tax break
As well as $420m bond
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Vantage Data Centers buys Hypertec’s Canadian data center business
Vantage's busy year
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Grant for data center development in Cheyenne, Wyoming, approved by officials
Although the grant still has to be approved by another official body
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Vantage DC raises $1.25bn in another investment round led Digital Colony
It helps having generous investors
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DataBank begins construction of Minnesota data center
The first phase should be completed by 2021
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Equinix expands Ashburn data center campus with $95m DC21
The 41,000 sq ft DC21 is the company's 16th facility in the DC area
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CBRE: US data center market to grow by 13.8% in 2021
Most of that growth will be in Northern Virginia
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LINX to install its fourth regional IXP in Northern Virginia; based out of Iron Mountain data center
This is also the IX's second Manassas PoP
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Arm-powered Ookami supercomputer installed at Stony Brook University, New York
Using the same processor as the world's fastest supercomputer, Fugaku
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IBM to close data centers in Dallas, Melbourne, and Houston
Claims the data centers are unsuitable for modernization
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Digital Crossroad finishes $40m Lake Michigan data center in Indiana
Built out of an old coal fired power plant
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AWS proposes 'discreet' power lines for data center in Loudoun, Virginia
Officials were worried about the residents in the area
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ByteDance leases 53MW of Northern Virginia data center space, ahead of possible US spin off
By housing its servers in the US ByteDance could assuage data security fears
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Georgia's Fulton County offers $14m in tax breaks for data center project
The identity of the data center company is unknown
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AWS to buy 104-acre Ohio plot for $200m data center
The council still needs to buy the land before it can sell it though
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QTS Realty Trust opens 72MW Atlanta facility, DC2
The new data center joins a 200MW sibling facility nearby
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Prime Data Centers to build 9MW Silicon Valley data center
The facility will be online next year
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Bluebird Network launches Springfield Internet Exchange
The IX provides customers the ability to interconnect for free
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DataBank invests $30m into EdgePresence to leverage modular portfolio
EdgePresence operates across eight US states
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Verizon teams with Azure to integrate 5G-Edge
Verizon provides the bandwidth, Microsoft provides the apps
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NYSE and Nasdaq threaten to leave New Jersey if transaction tax goes ahead
The markets claim they could move operations out to Dallas or elsewhere
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TikTok CSO says app's services are separate from ByteDance's Chinese operations
He also took the time to clarify some of the big concerns about its security
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Bitcoin miner Marathon signs for coal-fired electricity in Montana
Beowulf Energy hopes a joint venture can keep its struggling coal plant burning