DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Standards & Regulations, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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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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IONOS secures permission for data center in Worcester, UK
The company will be moving its servers over when finally built
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Microsoft behind Georgia data center campus, officials grant $14m tax break
As well as $420m bond
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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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South Korean state agencies sign MoU to build $3.6bn data center campus
A City Business Agreement has also been signed to power Smart Cities
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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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Equinix's quarterly revenue is up nine percent year on year
Equinix expected to be hit by Covid... that never happened
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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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GDS Holdings hosts Hong Kong IPO in bid to raise $1.8bn
The proceeds will go towards data center expansion and R&D
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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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Equinix to build two data centers in Manchester, UK
The data centers will be built in two warehouses that have stood empty since 2018
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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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DoD releases Data Strategy ahead of Digital Modernization program
A plan to get data solutions to the battlefield
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FCC commissioner calls for greater scrutiny over 'adversary' submarine cable connections
With a focus on China
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EU drafts bill to supervise cloud banking
It would have the power to fine Cloud providers too
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Facebook claims potential data restrictions will force it to drop EU platforms
It also won an extension to legally challenge a suspension of EU-US data transfers
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Foxconn completes steel body of DC network operations globe in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin
Took them long enough...
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Oracle wins case against Library of Congress over cloud contract that asked for Google, AWS, or Azure
Oracle wasn't even considered
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Ireland to order Facebook to halt data transfers from EU to US
The legal drama that shook the EU and US digital relationship continues...
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NGD granted planning permission for 180MW campus expansion
The council also provided permission for the installation of 60 emergency generators, 29 car parking spaces, and a security building
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Oracle loses appeal over JEDI cloud contract award
Will Oracle give up?
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New Chinese export policy threatens forced sale of TikTok US
So... checkmate?
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Walmart joins Microsoft in joint bid to buy TikTok
Big retail joins big tech
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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer steps down amid political battle with US government
Authorities are forcing TikTok to sell up its US division or be blocked out of the US markets entirely
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Report: Google to buy plot in Taiwan for third data center project
It's unconfirmed but local papers are convinced it's Google
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Former Uber chief security officer charged with covering up hack
Hackers were paid $100,000 in Bitcoin to keep it all hush hush