DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Compute, Storage & Networking Channel, 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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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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JD Cloud and Moore Threads team up on cluster of 100,000 GPUs
Will use Chinese hardware
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Qualcomm and AWS partner on custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers
Will also work on optical connectivity solution with up to 1.6T
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GoPro to enter AI data center market via merger with optical photonics company
Company has entered into a merger agreement with Action Acquisitions and Starman Optical
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AWS to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs
Two companies expand their partnership
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OVHcloud to raise dedicated server prices by up to 87 percent from September
RAMaggedon sees costs skyrocketing
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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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Everpure secures contract from "top five" hyperscaler for its flash storage offering
Company's second contract with a hyperscaler customer
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AI lab Moonshot leases 20,000 Nvidia GPUs from Alibaba Cloud - report
Makes up a significant proportion of Moonshot's overall compute capacity for Kimi models
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Samsung SDS launches NPU-as-a-Service offering with FuriosaAI chips in South Korea
Will be powered by FuriosaAI's RNGD AI chip
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CleanCore Solutions signs on Cerebras under 10-year colocation agreement
Cerebras also selected to power CrowdStrike's AI security platform
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Vultr adds AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs to its cloud platform
Two companies recently partnered with the University of Cambridge for a global environmental monitoring project
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Wasabi to provide cloud object storage to Megaport
As the Network-as-a-Service provider continues to enter neocloud race
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Google grows TPU stash by ~$7bn in last year
As company seeks to increasingly sell TPUs, not just lease them
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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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Backblaze signs $355m storage agreement with CoreWeave
CoreWeave agrees to multi-exabyte storage contract
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Qualcomm considers acquiring AI chip firm Tenstorrent
Deal could be worth $8-10bn
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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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SK Telecom plots "gigawatt scale" AI cloud in South Korea with Nvidia
Will be based on the Nvidia DSX platform
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Pinterest signs $4bn infrastructure agreement with AWS
Will use AWS' Graviton and Trainium chips
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Japan's Datasection to deploy 4,696 B200 GPUs in Thailand
Will be housed in a data center in Bangkok
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Microsoft launches VMs based on Cobalt 200 chip in preview, Maia 200 already in production
Announced at Microsoft Build 2026
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CoreWeave claims to have first Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 up and running
Delivered by Dell Technologies
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Iren taps Dell Technologies for Nvidia Blackwell servers under $1.6bn contract
Will be deployed at Iren data centers in Childress, Texas
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Meta toys with offering cloud computing services
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's "definitely on the table"
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Huawei launches full-stack data infrastructure offering for AI
Includes OceanStor Pacific scale out storage offering
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Anthropic in talks to use Microsoft's custom Maia AI chips - report
Remain in early stages and may not progress to an agreement