DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Government & Military, 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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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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Matt Clifford, man behind UK's AI Growth Zones plan, joins Anthropic
Plans to stay on at ARIA is "a clear conflict of interest," MP says
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Trump admin considers more semiconductor tariffs, could include data center servers
Because it went so well before
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Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts seeks vendor for two colocation data centers
Currently uses Digital Realty and Csquare through a third-party vendor
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Defense authorization bill provision could ban private data centers on US DoD land from using Chinese equipment
Companies are already evaluating land at military sites
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Nvidia considers $250bn backstop for OpenAI's planned 10GW Ohio data center - report
SoftBank facility is planned on Department of Energy land
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FBI considers deploying AI LLM supercomputers with Nvidia B300 GPUs or Google TPUs
Could deploy multiple systems, from training to inference
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US Air Force Research Lab to relocate TI-19 supercomputer from Ohio to Mississippi
Elderly 47 petaflops system gets a new lease of life
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Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders introduce AI Data Center Moratorium Act
Would block new data center builds until other regulations are passed
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DARPA Low Resource Computing program aims to serve the Edge with non-traditional micro-computation
Compares the power of musical greeting card silicon to early mainframes
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Trump's DoJ urges judge to throw out xAI data center gas turbine suit, citing national security
Reveals Grok was used in the Iran war
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Anthropic disables latest AI model after US order limits foreign access
Amazon's CEO warned the government about the model
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NASA explores modernizing its "aging" data center facilities
Seeks partners to upgrade its compute fleet
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DARPA Biological Technologies Office to lease 50 Nvidia HGX H100s for NODES program
Newer hardware can also be proposed, but must be ready in a month
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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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DARPA Smash: Agency hopes to recover all elements from ore, render China’s rare earth supply chain stranglehold obsolete
Would also solve copper shortages and other supply challenges
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Supermicro cofounder resigns from board following China GPU smuggling charge, shares down 33%
US claims $2.5bn of servers shipped to China
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Microsoft files amicus brief in support of Anthropic's DoD lawsuit
OpenAI and Google workers also file brief to quash supply chain risk designation
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Anthropic sues Pentagon over supply chain risk designation, claims billions at risk
Says that the move could doom the company by causing investor panic
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UK to launch £500m Sovereign AI venture fund
As it also looks to boost UK data center compute
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DoD officially designates Anthropic a supply chain risk, despite being used in Iran war
While Anthropic's CEO tries to walk back comments
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Israel and US bomb data centers in Tehran, following Iran's drone strikes on AWS
As data centers increasingly become targets in war
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Anthropic CEO says company was punished for not giving "dictator-style praise" or donations to Trump
Points to OpenAI's contributions to Trump PACs, and calls rival's contract "safety theater"
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DARPA O-CIRCUIT program aims to develop 'unconventional biological processing units' for AI training and inference at the Edge
Looking to fly brains for organoid cytomorphic intelligence, may make them play Ms. Pac-Man and put them in smelling drones
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OpenAI to amend DoD AI contract after surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns
After Anthropic gets supply-chain risk designation for not allowing such work on Claude
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Anthropic to sue Trump administration over security risk designation
After unprecedented calls to ban Federal contractors from using Claude
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Trump orders federal agencies to "immediately" stop using Anthropic AI tech, threatens "criminal consequences" against "radical left, woke company"
After company sought to put limits on DoD usage of its AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons
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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