DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Management & Operations Channel, 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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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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DCD named 'Best B2B Website' at the TABPI 2026 awards
Also has the best audience
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Uday Ruddarraju named OpenAI's CTO of Compute
Former xAI staffer celebrates one-year anniversary at company
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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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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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UK's Queen Alexandra Hospital declares critical incident as chillers fail at on-site data center
NHS facility struggles amid record heatwave
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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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Microsoft's Azure Core CTO latest to join Anthropic
Marcus Fontoura aims to "help build the next generation of AI systems"
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Kao Data appoints Spencer Lamb as CEO
Company to focus on UK data center buildout
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Data center operators offer potential job opportunities to laid off Meta workers
The industry is booming, but hyperscalers keep cutting jobs
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Meta begins laying off 8,000 workers, including data center staff
Even as the job cuts look to help fund more AI data centers
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Mike Brinker becomes latest Googler to join Anthropic's data center team
As generative AI business expands its data center ambitions
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Fermi's ousted CEO fights for return, company claims he is "attempting to fill the board with his acolytes to force a sale"
Toby Neugebauer remains the largest shareholder, but has lost the support of the second largest shareholder in messy spat
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xAI cofounder Ross Nordeen joins Anthropic "to focus on compute," following Colossus lease deal
Nordeen was the last cofounder to leave Elon Musk's business
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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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Anthropic seeks data center leasing deals in Europe and Australia
As OpenAI retreats from Stargate Europe
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Sana Ouji leaves Google for Anthropic's new energy team, to "responsibly and rapidly scale an ambitious data center portfolio"
Joining Ariel Horowitz and Tim Hughes, and a bunch of ex-Googlers
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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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Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail attack against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home
Same individual believed to have threatened OpenAI's headquarters
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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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Equinix's CTO Justin Dustzadeh departs
Has yet to announce his next role
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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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Switch integrates Nvidia Omniverse DSX Blueprint into EVO AI data center design
Will support Nvidia DGX systems
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Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory Reference Design and Omniverse DSX digital twin
The latest version of its push to standardize data center designs around its hardware
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Meta considers layoffs of up to 20% to fund AI data center buildout
As Oracle also readies massive job cuts
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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