DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Asia Pacific, 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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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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LineShine: All-CPU Chinese supercomputer named world's most powerful
Huawei gear used in 2.198 exaflops supercomputer
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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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Anthropic seeks data center leasing deals in Europe and Australia
As OpenAI retreats from Stargate Europe
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411km Tamtam cable from Vanuatu to New Caledonia gets Asian Development Bank financing
Complements existing cable to Fiji
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OpenAI CFO says company ended 2025 with 1.9GW of compute, scaled revenue at same speed
Claims a clear correlation between aggressive data center ramp-up and rising revenue
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US leads 'Pax Silica' formation, bringing together countries to secure semiconductor supply chain
But Taiwan is conspicuously not part of the group
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OpenAI signs MoU with NextDC for Australian Stargate data center in Sydney
$4.5bn site is planned for Eastern Creek
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OpenAI in talks with Tata Consultancy Services for Indian Stargate data center - report
After Reliance Industries negotiations reportedly stall
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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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DayOne to expand CTP1 Thailand data center to 300MW, signs MoU with Amata for CTP2
Plans to take power from a floating solar plant
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Battery fire at South Korea's state data center brings government services offline
Prime Minister calls for action on ongoing blaze
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Equinix opens its first data center in Chennai, India
India—CN1 to be connected to the company's Mumbai campus
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Multiple subsea cables cut in the Red Sea, impacting Internet traffic in the Middle East and South Asia
Microsoft notes increased latency, but no major outages
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Oracle continues widespread layoffs across US, India, Philippines, and beyond
The company has yet to communicate the move internally or externally
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Airtel outage impacts mobile users in India
Jio and Vodafone Idea users also report issues, but likely tied to Airtel
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Significant layoffs at Oracle, job cuts impact US and India OCI teams
Scale of the cuts not yet known
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DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation or under construction
Across Vantage, Switch, Yondr, DataBank, and Takanock
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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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Google plans $6bn 1GW data center in India's Andhra Pradesh - report
Vizag data center could be the largest in Asia
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Schneider Electric to fully take over its Indian division in $6.4bn deal
Will buy out Temasek's shares
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8.8 magnitude earthquake causes Internet outages in Kamchatka, Russia
And tsunami warnings across the Pacific
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KKR considers acquiring ST Telemedia Global Data Centres at $5bn valuation
After picking up nearly 15 percent of the company last year
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Princeton Digital Group gets $1.3bn from Stonepeak
Following $1.2bn debt financing move
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Schneider Electric considering taking full stake in India JV
Would buy out Temasek's shares
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OpenAI exec tours APAC for possible Stargate data center sites - report
Jason Kwon heads to Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, and Singapore
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Equinix's SG1 data center in Singapore hit by outage during maintenance
Impacting Singtel, StarHub, ViewQwest, and others