DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Government & Military, 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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Pentagon in talks to loan Fluidstack $5bn - report
Money would come from Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital
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DISA launches tender for $21.6bn JWCC contracts
Cloud providers have until October 6 to submit bids
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Parallel Works and CoreWeave partner on cloud platform for DARPA
Jointly develop managed AI and HPC platform for the NODES program
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Ivory Coast targets launch of first state-owned data center in 2027
Will be backed by US Export-Import Bank
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FBI puts out call for AI hardware procurement contracts
Department seeks up to $88m in AI hardware
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CoreWeave and Leidos partner on AI offering for US intelligence community
Will develop secure sovereign AI cloud services
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NOAA selects Google Cloud for HPC infrastructure to predict weather patterns
Will provide cloud-based compute for the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System
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SpaceX in talks with Pentagon to provide compute capacity - report
Deal could be worth billions of dollars
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AWS launches Secret Cloud for Industry
Gives US defense contractors secure access to cloud
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AWS and Anduril partner on Edge cloud offering for national security and defense
Anduril introduces Menace-I with AWS Outposts
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Swedish military teams up with Evroc for "Combat Cloud"
Will be used for command and control system
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Homeland Security signs $2.6bn contract with AWS
Will run up to five years
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Belgium's Smals selects Google Cloud as primary public cloud provider
Smals will integrate Google Cloud with existing on-prem infrastructure
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Iowa state plans cloud migration, claims will save $525m over next decade
Will partner with AWS and Cognizant on migration
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UK's National Crime Agency told "IT infrastructure isn't fit for purpose"
NCA told to overhaul its IT estate by HM Inspectorate
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Microsoft wraps up investigation into Israeli military's use of its cloud platform
Posits some steps to improve effectiveness of its human rights governance
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UK's National Physical Laboratory seeks bids for new data center
NPL puts out pipeline notice for £9.6m project
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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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Fujitsu finally set to exit UK Post Office IT contract
Post Office signs £322.8m deal with Accenture to take over
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UK Home Office cancels Police National Database cloud migration
80 percent of the code was found to be unusable in the cloud
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QGroup launches data center in The Gambia, claims it is the country's first
While government data center gets inaugurated in Angola
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UK's Department for Work and Pensions plots data center exit
Awards Redesmere Ltd decommissioning and migration contract
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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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EU Commission selects four cloud providers under €180m sovereign cloud tender
Post Telecom, StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus get the gig
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Saab pitches data center and fighter jet deal to Canadian military
Positions sovereign data center as a "unique advantage"
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UK's Derbyshire County Council to migrate data to Microsoft Azure cloud
Previously stored at "aging" HQ
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US' National Science Foundation seeks to reduce data center footprint
Puts out a request for information for help redesigning its on-prem IT footprint
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OVHcloud to launch defense unit for European military customers
Has already been approached by several regional defense ministries