DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Latin America, 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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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including DCD)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted
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Starlink suffers brief Monday outage globally
Company removes notice of the issue when service improved
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Panama repeatedly cuts Internet in Bocas del Toro over banana protests
State of emergency in province after pension cuts and layoffs
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Vertiv launches modular prefabricated overhead infrastructure system 'SmartRun'
Power, networking, and cooling for data hall deployments
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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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AWS owned 24m sq ft of property, leased 24.8m sq ft in 2024
A 28 percent jump as it ramps up capex spend
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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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US to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China
As Trump threatens to start a trade war with the EU
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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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Scala AI City: Scala pitches $50bn Brazil data center campus of up to 4.7GW
But will start with a more modest 54MW for $500m
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Major power outage across Venezuela leads to Internet and mobile issues, saboteurs blamed
Much of the nation is disconnected
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Hurricane Beryl impacts Internet connectivity in Jamaica, Mexico, and Houston
Hurricane Beryl impacts Internet connectivity in Jamaica, Mexico, and Houston
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Ecuador hit by nationwide power outage, Internet connectivity plummets
Transmission line issues cause country-wide crash
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Chile partially reverses Google data center permit over water use concerns
As Chilean drought continues, court asks for company to consider climate change
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AWS plans $5bn Mexican cloud region for 2025
Its second region in Latin America
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General Atlantic to acquire Actis, will have $96bn in combined assets
Picks up sustainability-focused investor with data center stakes
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Submarine cable connecting Cuba to Martinique begins tests
Deployed by Orange, it will be Cuba's second ever cable
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Scala Data Centers issues $378m in green debentures
Will fund its existing expansion plans
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US gov claims that China used Covid vaccines to bribe Brazil to accept Huawei 5G kit
The New York Times previously made similar allegations
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El Salvador risks defaulting on debt amid Bitcoin crash
President Nayib Bukele is doubling down on crypto, buying more coins despite the freefall
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Cuba's Internet disrupted due to fiber cut
Accidental cut in Havana impacts the whole island
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Global governments gave Amazon $4.7bn+ in subsidies for data centers, warehouses, and other space
The real number could be a lot higher
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DCD Magazine out now - Life as a hyperscale data center contractor
As the workforce challenge intensifies, hear directly from contractors about what it's really like.
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Ava Telecom to deploy Edge data centers in São Paulo, Brazil
But details are limited
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Huawei revenue craters, says it is focused on "surviving next five years" amid sanctions
Plus the US tries to get Brazil to drop Huawei for OpenRAN
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Google and SubCom to build Firmina submarine cable from US to Argentina
Also landing in Brazil and Uruguay