DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Infrastructure Management, 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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xAI appeals to Ninth Circuit after US court dismisses data center trade secret case against OpenAI
And OpenAI attempts to get its legal fees paid by Musk's company
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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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Y Combinator looks for startups trying to remove humans from data center development and operation
Not just lights out data centers, lights out site selection?
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Equinix to kill off Metal by June 2026
No longer selling the service, previously known as Packet
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Microsoft Research details early-stage modular robotics for data centers
Team behind Silica crabs tackles networking maintenance machines
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STT GDC to pilot Phaidra's AI data center cooling control system
Hopes to achieve power savings of up to 30 percent
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Billions in insurance payouts expected from CrowdStrike global IT outage
Insurance losses could be monumental
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Think tank warns North Korea could use public cloud providers to train military AI
But it's unclear where they are currently using compute resources
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Cloudflare claims Flexential data center outage was behind service disruption
Alleges multiple failures and questions whether grid support scheme was at fault
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Microsoft to create team dedicated to data center automation and robotics
Plus more on Meta's robotic efforts
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Pure Storage to pay for customers' power and rack space for Storage as-a-Service offering
Comes as a cash lump sum or credits
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Crypto miner Hut 8 blames "power surges" on slow repairs at Alberta facility
Company is only operating at 15 percent capacity
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Roblox spends nearly $400m on Ashburn data center, rolls out Edge facilities
But now plans to cut back on spending
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Avatar: The Way of Water was rendered in Amazon Web Services
The film outgrew the capabilities of their own data center, and was moved to the cloud
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Twitter server room overheats amid layoff chaos
A new form of lights out data center
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SK Group takes full responsibility for data center fire that led to Kakao outage
But will it fully cover all the costs?
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Basecamp and Hey move off of the cloud
Breaking with the general trend as costs grow
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IBM debuts Diamondback Tape Library for cloud and large enterprises
27 petabytes in a rack
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Ethereum 'Merge' shifts cryptocurrency to proof-of-stake, essentially ending its GPU mining
Massively reduces energy use of Ethereum overnight
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Microsoft Azure UK stops accepting new customers for some services, due to supply shortages
Following reports of server shortages across global Microsoft data centers
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Roblox adds data center after 73-hour outage
Sticks to its on-prem vision, despite lengthy downtime
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YellowDog spins up AWS cluster with 3.2m vCPUs
Gets a supercomputer in 30 minutes
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DCD Magazine out now: Chilled efficiency
Cool stuff
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Equinix launches its own DCIM, IBX SmartView
Transparency matters
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Schneider patches critical vulnerability in StruxureWare DCIM
Unencrypted passwords were accessible - update your systems now