DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - HPC & Quantum, 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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FBI puts out call for AI hardware procurement contracts
Department seeks up to $88m in AI hardware
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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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IBM CEO: Z revenue is "deferred not destroyed"
IBM executives attempt to assuage concerns after poor quarterly performance
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Megazone Cloud and Pasqal sign agreement to offer quantum computing via the cloud in South Korea
Pasqal's QPU technology will be integrated into Megazone Cloud's quantum platform
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OVHcloud to offer Quobly quantum compute technology
Also teams up with Welinq on quantum and classical compute solutions
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University of Bonn to get new HPC data center in Germany
Henn Architekten wins architecture bid for facility
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Pasqal and Saudia Arabia's Aramco launch quantum computer
Marks the Kingdom's first quantum computer
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Bull delivers second HPC system to Airbus, located in Germany
Both supercomputers and modular data centers are now inaugurated
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IBM files for new quantum computing facility in Poughkeepsie, New York
Plans to expand campus with new 511,000 sq ft facility
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OVHcloud brings Quandela's Belenos quantum computer to cloud platform
OVH's quantum cloud platform launched in November 2025
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Two research institutions partner for new HPC data center in Berlin, Germany
Initially will be housed at ZIB and HZB's existing buildings, with a new facility to be constructed later
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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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SKA Observatory turns to AWS for cloud-based HPC cluster
Massive radio telescope array turns to the cloud for scalable compute
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Cadillac F1 team selects Core Scientific as data center partner
Oracle Red Bull Racing extends ongoing partnership with Big Red
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AWS plans another quantum research center in Pasadena, California
Joins the company's existing site on the Caltech campus
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Scaleway to offer access to AQT quantum computer via cloud platform
AQT's IBEX Q1 trapped-ion computer will be offered via QaaS platform
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UK's Imperial College London deploys liquid-cooled HPC cluster in Digital Realty data center
Housed at Digital Realty's data center in Woking, Surrey
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UK Fusion energy developer awards £7.9m modular HPC data center contract to Boxxe
Facility likely to be housed at Culham Science Centre in Abingdon
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CloudCIX and AlloComp deploy Nvidia supercomputer in Cork, Ireland
Set to go live in coming weeks
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Ground broken on data center for supercomputers in Stuttgart, Germany
Will be part of the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart
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Taiwan launches data center with AI cluster
Aims for facility to contribute to its "sovereign AI" effort
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Neuromorphic compute startup Unconventional AI raises $475m in seed funding
Sees company valued at $4.5bn after just two months of operations
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Pasqal's neutral-atom quantum computer now available via Scaleway cloud
System will be integrated into Scaleway's QaaS platform
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UK gov't turns to cloud providers for £250m AI compute capacity procurement
Preliminary market engagement notice details goal of expanding national AI compute capacity
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AWS to spend $50bn expanding AI and HPC capacity for US government
Will see nearly 1.3GW of capacity added across Top Secret, Secret, and US GovCloud regions
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OVHcloud launches quantum computing platform
Customers can now access quantum computing services via the cloud
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Germany's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre to expand data center capacity
Planning to invest €500m in expansion
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Japan's University of Osaka D3 Center trials compute and data platform for open science
Osaka University Compute and sTOrage Platform Urging open Science developed by NEC Corp