DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Middle East, 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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AWS operated 56.84 million square feet of data center and office space in 2025
A 16 percent increase on the year before
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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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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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Iran threatens to attack OpenAI's Stargate data center in UAE
After hitting Amazon and Oracle data centers
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Iran threatens to attack energy and IT infrastructure if Trump targets power plants
After AWS data centers were hit early on in the war
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Iran war delays work on Meta's 2Africa subsea cable
Following previous delays in the Red Sea amid Houthi attacks
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Iranian state-affiliated news agency claims AWS data center drone strikes were deliberate
As part of attacks that also impacted AWS' Middle Eastern Ground Station
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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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Amazon confirms two UAE data centers hit by drone strikes, third in Bahrain damaged
As Iran strikes the Middle East following US and Israeli attacks
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AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center" and cause fire, amid Iran attacks
Availability Zone in ME-CENTRAL-1 brought offline in possible drone or missile attack
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Abu Dhabi’s MGX in talks to join Anthropic's $20bn round
Alongside funding OpenAI, Stargate, and xAI
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Saudi's Humain partners with Global AI for US data center deployment
Company operates a facility in Endicott
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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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Multiple subsea cables cut in the Red Sea, impacting Internet traffic in the Middle East and South Asia
Microsoft notes increased latency, but no major outages
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Schneider Electric says European data center market is picking up, raises prices globally due to tariffs
Says it will take Motivair global
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Google's global director of data center energy and location strategy joins UAE's MGX
Cloud giant's director of global machine learning planning also departs for pastures unknown
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Iran's Internet connectivity plummets as Israeli strikes and cyberattacks continue
Significant outages also reported across Gaza as main route is cut
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Elon Musk tried to block OpenAI's Stargate deal in UAE, xAI could be involved in data center campus - report
As Musk's White House influence appears to wane
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Saudi Arabia’s AI co. Humain looking for US data center equity partner, targets 6.6GW by 2034 with subsidized electricity
Plans $10bn venture fund to invest in AI companies
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Vertiv and Chemours score DataVolt deals, following $20bn Supermicro contract
But it's not clear how chunky these contracts are
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Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle, and OpenAI join UAE-US AI Campus - report
Looks to be home to an OpenAI Stargate deployment
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US and UAE plan to build 5GW AI data center campus, run by G42 and American hyperscalers
1GW facility planned for the first phase
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Cisco joins Humain's Saudi AI push, extends partnership with UAE's G42
As Humain partners with tech's biggest players
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OpenAI considers data center in United Arab Emirates - report
Could be announced as soon as this week
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Humain turns to Groq's inference chips for Saudi Arabian AI push
Appears to already be operating Groq chips
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Qualcomm signs MoU to deliver AI data centers, Edge, and chips for Saudi's Humain
Facilities will not just be confined to Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia’s new AI venture Humain teams up with AWS for $5bn 'AI Zone'
In addition to existing AWS $5.3bn Saudi pledge