DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Australasia, 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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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 signs MoU with NextDC for Australian Stargate data center in Sydney
$4.5bn site is planned for Eastern Creek
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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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Project Waterworth: Meta announces world’s longest subsea cable project spanning five continents
50,000km cable wraps around the world
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TikTok considers Australian data center - report
As ByteDance battles ban in the US
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Amazon Web Services' New Zealand data center buildout put on hold
Stormwater issues and a small fire plague the project
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Spark plans 10MW data center in North Shore, New Zealand
Following an expansion in Takanini
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Western Australia's largest hospital hit by major IT outage
Ambulances diverted in devastating IT crash
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Quinbrook to build $1.7 billion data center, 2Gwh battery storage in Queensland, Australia
Currently seeking data center operators for the site
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University of Otago named anchor tenant of Datagrid's proposed Southland data center
The first customer of the planned New Zealand hyperscale facility
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Pawsey Supercomputing Centre installs room-temperature diamond-based quantum computer
Taking advantage of imperfections in diamonds to create qubits
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Australian ISP iiNet blames data center outage on Perth heatwave
Now grid operators are concerned about starting bushfires
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Southern Cross Next submarine cable lands in New South Wales, Australia
Launch expected in Q2 2022
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Telstra consortium to build digital twin of New South Wales to protect infrastructure during Australian wildfires
Helping maintain uptime in the next inevitable devastating fire season
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NBN Co accused of mistreating subcontractors building Australia's national broadband network
Union claims that some subcontractors were offered drugs to complete work. They would prefer better pay
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Australia arrests ship captain accused of damaging Vocus' ASC Cable
Accidental damage thought to be caused by wayward anchor
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Telstra names mobile tower spin-off Amplitel
Becomes the largest mobile tower infrastructure provider in Australia
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Lake Parime plans 10MW data center near Clyde, New Zealand
Facility will only run when there is excess renewable energy supply
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Google Cloud hit by outage in new Melbourne, Australia, region
Newly opened, newly down
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Vocus begins final section of Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore submarine cable system
Connecting that Australia Singapore Cable to the North West Cable System and landing in Darwin for the first time
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Vocus Melbourne data center to close, be replaced by $1.5bn office complex
Customers migrated to different sites
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Australia Singapore Cable repaired, operations restored
Friday the 13th proves a lucky day for Vocus
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Repair work on Australia Singapore Cable ongoing, Vocus tentatively aiming for Friday fix
If the weather holds out
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Hurricane Electric adds new Point of Presence at Vocus Auckland - Albany
Its second in New Zealand
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NextDC receives planning consent for 150MW Melbourne data center
After recently purchasing adjacent land for expansion
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Vocus' Australia Singapore Cable broken in 'multiple locations at challenging depths'
A fix could take some time