DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Construction & Site Selection, 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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OpenAI again shakes up data center leadership, with xAI exec Uday Ruddarraju to lead and Sachin Katti to leave
After switching out the Stargate team earlier this year
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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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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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OpenAI's head of data centers, Chris Malone, latest to depart
Stargate crew has seen key figures leave
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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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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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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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Former employees sue Prime Data Centers for $400m, claim compensation fraud
Allege scheme to reduce equity
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SpaceX earnings: 2GW of compute by year end, aiming for 10-20GW by end of 2027
But Elon Musk's businesses have a habit of missing targets
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SpaceXAI considers large-scale data center in Texas - report
Despite orbital ambitions, has sights set on gigawatt campus
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AWS says it added more data center capacity "than any other company" in 2025, including 1.2GW in Q4
The cloud king looks to hold onto its throne
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Microsoft UK's Thames Valley Park campus could be redeveloped as a gas-powered data center
Reading site set to head to public consultation
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Polaroid ads attack data centers for water use
Slogan may be misleading, but taps into growing anti-data center movement
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Thor Equities files lawsuit against Ohio's Urbana after data center moratorium disrupts project
Company was set to build a $1 billion data center near the city
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Stream Data Centers pulls out of $800m South Carolina data center, says utility power would take too long
Project Liberty had seen some local pushback, but was approved
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Meta's Sham Parmar joins Anthropic's data center supply chain team
To focus on power and cooling infrastructure for data center buildouts
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Crusoe pauses work on 1.8GW Cheyenne, Wyoming, data center "at the request of our customer"
As company touts 5GW pipeline
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Hut 8 prices $4.25bn note offering for 352MW Texas data center
Facility is already leased to an undisclosed hyperscale tenant
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SoftBank plans up to 5GW data center buildout in France, investment of up to €75bn
Will partner with Schneider Electric for a "large-scale industrial production cluster" at the Port of Dunkirk
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Data center operators offer potential job opportunities to laid off Meta workers
The industry is booming, but hyperscalers keep cutting jobs
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Anthropic hiring for analyst to assess geopolitical risks and nation-state threats to staff, offices, and data centers
Just don't ask the Department of Defense
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OpenAI drops out of multi-billion dollar UK investment plan, says Stargate UK is on hold
Blames energy prices and regulations
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Iran's Sharif University of Technology hit in US-Israel strikes, destroying HPC data center
Attack occurred ahead of temporary ceasefire
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Cerebras plans data center in Manitoba, Canada
Following Saskatchewan announcement with Bell
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Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory Reference Design and Omniverse DSX digital twin
The latest version of its push to standardize data center designs around its hardware
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Franz Seidelhuber named VP of data center operations at SB Energy, following Studio 151 acquisition
Will support OpenAI's Stargate buildout in Milam County, Texas
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Oracle/OpenAI drop plans to expand flagship Abilene Stargate site, Meta in talks to pick up Crusoe capacity with Nvidia's help
Financing challenges and Stargate's changing scope end Texas data center expansion plans
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Pacific Northwest National Lab considers building AI data center for DOE research LLMs
System would be 2MW by 2028, and then could grow to 40MW