DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Google's VP of global infrastructure and capacity Bikash Koley heads to TPU neocloud Crux AI
Leaves Google, but stays in the family
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xAI's Michael Roberson joins OpenAI infrastructure team as commissioning program manager
As well as other SpaceXAI staff and former Meta employees
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Google's head of data center global design and construction joins Anthropic
John M. Wilson to head EMEA capacity delivery
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OpenAI and Anthropic seek 20-30MW data center deployments
As companies ramp up inference footprint
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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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Amid data center public backlash, Yvette Eden Ruiz joins OpenAI’s Community Engagement team from JPMorgan
As data centers become an issue for the midterms, OpenAI looks to change the message
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Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud named Crux AI, hires Meta's data center engineering head Alan Duong
Plans hiring spree ahead of 2GW/year ramp
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Google's European energy and infrastructure principle joins Mistral Compute
Marc Oman joins as AI firm looks to deploy 1GW
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Mistral raises €3bn in Series D led by Samsung Electronics
Plans to spend it on more compute
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok hit by simultaneous outages
People forced to think for themselves
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Matt Clifford, man behind UK's AI Growth Zones plan, joins Anthropic
Plans to stay on at ARIA is "a clear conflict of interest," MP says
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Former OpenAI Stargate exec Shamez Hemani joins Anthropic after brief Meta Compute stint
Was one of a group of departures to Meta's compute team
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Charter CFO Jessica Fischer to join Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud
Set to start in October, will be replaced by Kevin Howard
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Trump admin considers more semiconductor tariffs, could include data center servers
Because it went so well before
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UK Green Party calls for nationwide data center moratorium
Only 'local scale data centers for the local community' would be allowed
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Nvidia revenue doubles over last year, as company forecasts record growth
Says it is making more money per gigawatt of data center than ever before
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Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts seeks vendor for two colocation data centers
Currently uses Digital Realty and Csquare through a third-party vendor
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OpenAI's head of data centers, Chris Malone, latest to depart
Stargate crew has seen key figures leave
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OpenAI details Jalapeño AI chip, with 700W TDP
At Hot Chips, company touts its first foray into hardware
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IBM mainframe chip to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
Two worlds on one chip
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Nvidia backs data center powered land company Cloverleaf
Will help company bring projects to fruition, based on Nvidia DSX platform
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Rocket Lab has no plans to enter orbital data center market
But SpaceX's compute ambitions could give Rocket Lab a launch opening
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Ukraine says Nvidia Jetson gear found in Russian S-71M missile
Calls for stronger sanctions to stop tech reaching Russia
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Liquid Death and Garage Beer use data center water usage fears to market drink with "we want your pee" campaign
Former NFL star Jason Kelce sings about urinating on computers
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UAE's Mubadala considers investing in 500MW Bitgrit & S2 data center in Akita, Japan
Smaller 1.5MW deployment expected next year
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Groq raises $350m, with Nvidia participation "planned"
Company value nearly halved following Nvidia license deal
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Nvidia confirms it will back 4.25GW of OpenAI capacity at Ports-Pike mega data center
SB Energy facility will exclusively use Nvidia compute and networking
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Switch confidentially files for IPO - report
Rob Roy's data center firm could be going public again