DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Telecoms & Connectivity 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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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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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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SpaceX earnings: 2GW of compute by year end, aiming for 10-20GW by end of 2027
But Elon Musk's businesses have a habit of missing targets
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Former architect for Google's Global Internet Edge & CDN network infrastructure joins SpaceX-xAI
Paul Schultz joins the Starlink company ahead of IPO
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Intel launches Ethernet E835 controllers and network adapters, for dense, virtualized deployments
Aimed at data center, enterprise, AI, Edge, and telecom infrastructure use cases
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Intel launches Xeon 6+ CPU, pitches it for Agentic AI boom
Clearwater Forest gets clearer at Computex 2026
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AT&T, FirstNet support comms for NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon
Ahead of plans for a Lunar Base
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DCD Magazine out now: Quantum of Promise
Building the chips to power quantum computers
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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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411km Tamtam cable from Vanuatu to New Caledonia gets Asian Development Bank financing
Complements existing cable to Fiji
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Orbital computing startup Sophia Space raises $10m
Plans to deploy compute 'tiles' on satellites
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Elon Musk's SpaceX to merge with xAI at $1.25tn valuation, as it eyes space data center buildout
Claims a pathway to launching 1TW/year of compute
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SpaceX files for million satellite orbital AI data center megaconstellation
Musk co. claims hundreds of GW of compute in space
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Blue Origin plans thousands of TeraWave satellites, providing 6Tbps networking to data centers and enterprises
LEO and MEO satellites to provide global coverage
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Verizon Wireless outage hits thousands across the US
iPhones stuck in SOS mode
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Finnish police seize ship that allegedly cut subsea cable, detain Russian crew
Suspected sabotage in the Baltic Sea
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Out now: The End-of-Year Supplement
The biggest stories impacting data centers in 2025
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UK and Norway plan joint naval patrols to protect subsea cables from Russia
Following Yantar's encroachment on UK waters
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Russian spy ship appears to surveil subsea cables in UK waters, shines lasers at military jets
UK Defence Secretary calls Yantar's actions a “deeply dangerous” move
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US ICE acquires roving fake cell towers to spy on phones
Spends more than $800,000 on cell site simulator vehicles
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DCD Magazine out now: The UK's copper switch-off
How BT and Openreach are approaching the end of copper
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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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Flights resume after United Airlines outage grounds flights
Unimatic goes down, impacting more than 1,000 flights
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8.8 magnitude earthquake causes Internet outages in Kamchatka, Russia
And tsunami warnings across the Pacific
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SpaceX's Starlink Internet service hit by widespread global outage
After launching US T-Mobile service
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US space community warns of cuts to collision alert system
SpaceX and Blue Origin among firms concerned about 85 percent budget cuts at Office of Space Commerce
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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