DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Guy Willner, IXcellerate
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Goodman withdraws application for 90MW data center campus in Sydney, Australia
Company says data center policy and regulatory environment had “evolved significantly”
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Virtus secures £2.45bn in financing for data center build-out
Funds to fuel projects in the UK and mainland Europe
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Digital Realty to develop cable landing station in Los Angeles, California
Company adding CLS to LAX12 facility
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IBM deploys z17 mainframe at Marist University to support AI research projects
Students can use the z17 to develop and test AI applications
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Eir to begin 3G switch-off in Ireland later this week
Eir will kick off 3G shutdown in Donegal
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SubCo plans three subea cables in Indo-Pacific
New systems to link Australia, Singapore, Japan, and the US
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Sharon AI to lease capacity from Australia’s GreenSquareDC
Former IBM site to become host for Aussie neocloud
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Akamai signs $11.6bn compute deal with Anthropic
AI firm to lease capacity from cloud and Edge company to support CPU workloads
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Russian drones strike Ukrainian telcos and data center operators as part of targeted attacks
Kyivstar's HQ in Kyiv was struck in latest attack on capital
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T-Mobile US expands AI network service
AutoPilot aids T-Mobile's self-organizing network efforts
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Vocus to build 4,000km fiber link between Brisbane and Darwin
The route aims to support growing demand from hyperscaler, neocloud, and enterprise customers
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AI cloud and data center firm Nscale raises $3.36bn ahead of its IPO
Follows publication of IPO prospectus
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Keppel, StarHub confirm talks over M1 deal in Singapore
Will the talks lead to consolidation in the market?
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Thailand set to finalize new data center regulations by mid-October - report
Expected to classify data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW hyperscale facilities
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Project Suncatcher: Google to launch first space data center test in orbit next week
TPUs are ready to catch some rays, hyperscaler claims
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SFR workers in France strike over proposed takeover
Thousands of the company's employees have taken industrial action amid uncertainty over job security
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DOE unveils $1.9bn in funding for 31 grid upgrade projects to speed data center connections
Expected to unlock 23GW of additional capacity on the grid
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Boldyn Networks picked to deploy private network at Ontario International Airport in California
The private network will support security operations at the airport
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Southern Water deploys Lightsonic water-leak technology using Openreach's fiber infrastructure
As the water company seeks to monitor leaks
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QuEra partners with HPE to integrate quantum computer within Cray-powered HPC environments
Quantum firm now offering access to systems via both on-premises deployments and the cloud
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T-Mobile seeks to test 2.7GHz and 4GHz ahead as preparation for 6G spectrum ramps up
Just days after Verizon
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Microsoft to invest $10bn into Gulf states by 2030
Earmarked for investments across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait
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SiPearl delivers first samples of Rhea1 CPU to Bull for Jupiter exascale supercomputer
First order of SiPearl’s Rhea1 processors
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Ericsson, Vodafone demo AI-enabled instant call translation
The pair also showcased AI-based noise cancellation
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Victoria, Australia, proposes rules requiring data centers to secure own renewable energy supply
Alongside several other provisions to prevent cost shifting and excessive water use
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Samsung to fuel Korean robot ambitions as exclusive AI network provider
AI-RAN, 5G SA partnership with KT and SK Telecom to guarantee Korea's 6G and physical AI foothold in the 2030s
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Australian Senate calls for nationalized Triple Zero service following several high-profile outages
Telstra operates the system that connects Australian phone calls to 000
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IonQ to deploy first quantum computer at Nvidia’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center
The Superion 256 will be installed in 2027