DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - North 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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OpenAI and Anthropic seek 20-30MW data center deployments
As companies ramp up inference footprint
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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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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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Charter CFO Jessica Fischer to join Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud
Set to start in October, will be replaced by Kevin Howard
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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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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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Liquid Death and Garage Beer use data center water usage fears to market drink with "we want your pee" campaign
Former NFL star Jason Kelce sings about urinating on computers
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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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Switch confidentially files for IPO - report
Rob Roy's data center firm could be going public again
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Former employees sue Prime Data Centers for $400m, claim compensation fraud
Allege scheme to reduce equity
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KKR closes Global Infrastructure Investors V fund with $19.2bn to spend on infrastructure
Including data centers, energy, and other AI infrastructure
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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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Microsoft Azure outage at West US region causes intermittent connectivity failures
Systems expected to recover as issue is rolled back
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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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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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SK Hynix raises $26.5bn in blockbuster US listing
The largest ever listing by a foreign firm
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Schneider Electric to acquire industrial AI business Cognite for $3.1bn
Folding into Aveva
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Boeing outage significantly disrupts commercial and military production across US
Not believed to be a cyberattack
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OpenAI: "New bet" to partner with semiconductor companies, using AI to optimize chip design
After it used its own models to help co-design the Jalapeño AI chip with Broadcom
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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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LineShine: All-CPU Chinese supercomputer named world's most powerful
Huawei gear used in 2.198 exaflops supercomputer
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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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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