DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Africa, 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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AWS operated 56.84 million square feet of data center and office space in 2025
A 16 percent increase on the year before
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Iran war delays work on Meta's 2Africa subsea cable
Following previous delays in the Red Sea amid Houthi attacks
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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including DCD)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted
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Vertiv launches 5-50MW pre-fabricated data center solution 'OneCore'
Supports up to 944 racks
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Schneider Electric says European data center market is picking up, raises prices globally due to tariffs
Says it will take Motivair global
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Wells Fargo: Amazon Web Services delays data center leases, following Microsoft pullback
But Microsoft has downplayed its own cuts
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Vertiv launches modular prefabricated overhead infrastructure system 'SmartRun'
Power, networking, and cooling for data hall deployments
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Project Waterworth: Meta announces world’s longest subsea cable project spanning five continents
50,000km cable wraps around the world
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Dell’Oro Group predicts data center annual capex will hit $1 trillion by 2029
But figure is somewhat based on Stargate happening as promised
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DCD Magazine out now: Poles apart
Connecting the world - through the North Pole
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African tech co. Cassava Technologies secures $310m from investors including Google
US International Development Finance Corporation and Finnfund join round
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IEA: Global data center electricity consumption to "increase significantly," but remain a small part of overall usage
"Nonetheless, constraints at the local level may be significant"
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General Atlantic to acquire Actis, will have $96bn in combined assets
Picks up sustainability-focused investor with data center stakes
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Airtel plans for Nxtra to build five data centers in Africa
The Indian telco already has a big presence on the continent
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Sudan shuts down Internet on anniversary of military coup
The latest in a string of Internet blackouts
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Government of Cote d’Ivoire to sell 10% stake in national telco Orange CI
Leaving it with just five percent
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AAE-1 cable cut causes widespread outages in Europe, East Africa, Middle East, and South Asia
Google Cloud, OVHcloud impacted, while AWS, Azure, and LinkedIn may have been affected
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Africa Data Centres plans 30MW facility in Accra, Ghana
As part of its plans to build 10 data centers on the continent
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Vantage Data Centers signs 87MWp PPA with SolarAfrica for Johannesburg campus
Will cover a third of its power needs
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South Africa’s IHS acquires 5,701 towers from MTN for $412m
Now controls the majority of South Africa’s tower business
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Microsoft accused of spending hundreds of millions on bribes to win business deals
Whistleblower alleges culture of corruption in Middle East and Africa
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Cassava Technologies names Tesh Durvasula as CEO of Africa Data Centres
As company plans 10 data centers over the next two years
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Tropical Storm Ana causes major power outage in Malawi, impacting connectivity
Hampering rescue efforts
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Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank, hit by five hour outage
Customers unable to access app or online banking
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Burkina Faso shuts down mobile Internet amid growing violence and protests
As protestors call for president to step down
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Raxio plans first carrier neutral Tier III data center in the Ivory Coast
Starting with 400 racks
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DCD Magazine out now - Life as a hyperscale data center contractor
As the workforce challenge intensifies, hear directly from contractors about what it's really like.