DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Central Asia, 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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Kazakhstan plans data center valley powered by coal
But the nation has a limited data center footprint at the moment
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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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OpenAI pitches Stargate beyond US, says it could work with 10 countries
But projects will be "in coordination with the US government"
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Vertiv launches modular prefabricated overhead infrastructure system 'SmartRun'
Power, networking, and cooling for data hall deployments
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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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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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Mongolian government pushes for power to shut down the Internet
And heavily censor social media and press