DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Australasia, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Firmus seeks $5bn raise in Australian IPO - report
Targeting an offering in October
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Nvidia partners with Aussie companies to bring 2GW online by 2027
Chip designer teams up with cloud providers and data center operators in Australia
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Firmus proposes third data center project in Tasmania
Seeks to develop 52MW data center in Wesley Vale
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Firmus Technologies to acquire Benmax's fabrication, design and projects business
Hoped to strengthen Firmus' AI cloud and data center value chain
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Sharon AI signs $1.32bn cloud computing service agreement with unnamed AI lab
Will run for five years
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Firmus signs 600MW energy supply agreement in South Australia
Will support next phase of Project Southgate
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Centuria Capital Group raises AU$300m in equity for ResetData AI cloud business
Will support establishment of AI factories
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Sharon AI signs 72MW six-year AI infrastructure agreement with Nvidia
Taps Vast Data for 600PB AI OS deployment
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Megaport secures four AI contracts worth AU$458.9m
Also plans to raise AU$827.3m to build inference cloud offering
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DXN secures contract with unnamed neocloud to supply modular data center
Will see DXN delivering a 1.36MW data center module
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Services Australia signs AU$110m contract with IBM for mainframe upgrade
Contract period will run until end of June 2031
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Sharon AI signs $950m cloud deal with unnamed global tech company
Will see cloud capacity deployed at multiple NextDC data centers in Australia
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AWS took NZ$45m hit over dropped data center in Auckland, New Zealand - report
Cloud giant quietly walked away from project in early 2024
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Microsoft pledges $18bn to expand cloud and AI capacity in Australia
Will be invested by end of 2029
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AI cloud Firmus secures $505m in equity investment
Round led by Coatue
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Sharon AI signs $1.25bn cloud capacity agreement with ESDS Software Solutions
Will span five years
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Australian Taxation Office signs AU$104.8m contract for IBM z17 mainframe
Home Affairs department also signs AU$35m for non-mainframe IBM deal
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Australian gov't publishes "expectations" for data centers and AI infrastructure projects
Including creating jobs, and protecting power and water resources
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Google warns Aussie gov't that high taxes could prevent AU$20bn investment
Cloud giant is looking for an Asia-Pacific hub for AI and data centers
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Firmus Technologies to use Vast Data solution for AI cloud platform
Another neocloud adopts the Vast Data AI OS
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Oracle Database@AWS adds new regions in Canada and Australia
Big Red continues expanding its multi-cloud footprint
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Sharon AI appoints co-founder James Manning as CEO
Former CEO Wolf Schubert to become country manager USA
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Sharon AI secures $500m debt facility from USD.AI
Funding will be used to expand AI infrastructure in Australia and APAC
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National Australia Bank to exit Knox data center in Melbourne
Also poaches rival CBA AI executive
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NextDC receives development approval for M4 campus in Melbourne, Australia
AU$2bn campus is set for development at 127 Todd Road
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Aussie Digital Transformation Agency calls for more government cloud use
Wants departments to modernize their infrastructure and adopt AI
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Harbor Solutions and Zadara launch sovereign AI cloud in Australia
Cloud platform offers Nvidia GPUs
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Groq deploys AI infrastructure in data center in Sydney, Australia
Company's entrance into Asia-Pacific