DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Management & Operations 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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Oracle upscales layoffs, expected to increase restructuring costs by $700m
While chairman Larry Ellison ditches plans for stock sale
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Hyperscale Data ends cryptomining operations at Michigan data center
In preparation for incoming neocloud customer
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Nigeria's Danfodiyo University data center damaged in storm
Equipment damaged and network services disrupted
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims fresh hit on AWS data center in Bahrain
Says strikes were in response to alleged US attack on nuclear power plant in Darkhuin
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AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report
After Meta reveals plans for its own cloud business
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Extinction Rebellion pelt Microsoft data center site with acid-filled balloons
Targets under-construction data center near Sloterdijk Station in Amsterdam
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Data center operater extends lease of Vanda 3 data center in Stockholm, Sweden
Also secures additional 30MW of power at site
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Ukraine's military strikes Dubna satellite comms center in Russia
Just one week after previous strikes
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Oracle cut workforce by 21,000 employees in FY2026
Revealed in annual report
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Amazon workers testify in favor of regulating data centers, claim they faced backlash at work
Employees say they are being investigated by HR and were intimidated
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Colo provider MIRhosting sees equipment disconnected at Netherlands data center
Comes one week after 800 serves seized from customer of MIRhosting
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Microsoft shareholders file lawsuit over AI and cloud spending and business disclosures
Claims Microsoft misled investors about the financial impact of AI investment
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Google Cloud suffers network disruptions after fire at third-party data center in India
Fire saw emergency power shutdown at the facility
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Police seize £1.2m worth of equipment during raid of data center in Farnborough, UK
Facility was being used for illegal streaming
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LA data center firm Multacom sued by site owner, claims unpaid rent and other charges
Site owner Carolwood claims Multacom owes $401,128.25
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AWS experiences power issues at Northern Virginia cloud region, causing limited outage
Caused by thermal event
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Lambda hires Michel Combes as CEO, co-founder Stephen Balaban shifts to CTO role
Also appoints AT&T CEO John Donovan as chairman of the board
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Chinese cloud infrastructure spend up 26% in Q4 2025
Spending in Mainland China reaches $14.7bn in quarter
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Nscale pinches Oracle data center lead Sam Huckaby to head AI infrastructure build out
Huckaby will lead the neocloud's European and North America expansion
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Microsoft's Eric Boyd joins Anthropic as head of infrastructure
Boyd previously led engineering of hardware and software for AI models on Azure
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Iran attack hits an Oracle data center in Dubai, causes limited damage
Dubai Media Office initially calls claims "fake news," later confirms shrapnel impact
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Fire at AWS data center in Bahrain after Iranian attack - report
AWS yet to confirm
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Iran makes further threats against Big Tech in the Middle East
Says it is in response to US attempts to kill Iranian leadership
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Oracle begins laying off thousands of workers to fuel AI data center spend
Layoffs began yesterday
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HostDime suffers downtime at UK data center due to contractual dispute with colocation provider
Brings down HostDime customer workloads as well
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OpenAI reorganizes leadership amid data center strategy readjustment
Company is embracing renting AI servers from cloud providers instead of building all its data center capacity
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Oklahoma's Rock Volunteer Fire Department rejects $250,000 donation from Google linked to data center
Fire Department chief says public trust more important
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NexGen Cloud deploys AI power orchestration platform, claims it can increase capacity by 50%
Deploys Utilidata's platform across data center footprint