DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale, Will Calvert, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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AWS opens first Middle Eastern region in Bahrain
Bringing the cloud giant's total number of availability zones to 69
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AWS hits $8.4bn in Q2 revenue as growth slows, Google Cloud annual run rate passes $8bn
The market leader is slowing, but it still makes more in a quarter than Google Cloud makes in a year
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Unnamed company plans $600 million Nebraska data center
But must pass regulatory hurdles
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Google considers $600 million Kansas City, Missouri data center
With the possibility of receiving a 35-year property tax break
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Echelon given go-ahead for 100MW Ireland campus
After beating an appeal against the campus' planning permission
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Israel's Azrieli buys 20 percent stake in Compass Datacenters
While Compass plans a $3 billion expansion
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$3bn "solar data center" proposed in Arizona
Pegasus Holdings and Plus Minus Power (now merged) say they will have a solar farm and data center up and running this fall
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Google to buy enterprise cloud storage provider Elastifile
Bolstering Google Cloud's enterprise ambitions
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Compass Datacenters starts to build hyperscale Arizona campus
Plans for a campus with eight data centers and a potential capacity of 350MW
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CyrusOne breaks ground on third Frankfurt data center
As part of a planned European expansion
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Indiana makes data center tax exemptions law
Data center operators must invest between $25m and $150m in the state over five years to take part in the scheme
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NTT GDC to build 45MW Jakarta data center campus
The first facility from the Japanese company's latest subsidiary
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AWS signs $27m cloud deal with Australian government
The three year deal is aimed at making it easier for government agencies to purchase AWS services
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Switch to expand Las Vegas data center campus again
The expansion will bring total power capacity onsite to 545MW
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Google to invest $1.1 billion in Netherlands data centers
Bringing Google's total investment in the Netherlands to $2.8 billion since 2016
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Giga Data Centers opens 60MW Mooresville, North Carolina data center
Customers at the colocation site are exempt from all sales and use tax until 2029
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Google's $1.1 billion Bissen, Luxembourg data center clears regulatory hurdle
But the planned facility will still need more approvals before construction can begin
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Stack Infrastructure announces second Chicago facility
After an $850m cash injection in February
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Microsoft opens first Middle Eastern Azure regions in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Beating competitors Google and AWS to be the first to open a Middle East data center
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Google's $600 million Oklahoma expansion
Taking the company's stake in the state to $3 billion
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Report: K2 Data Centres plans two Dublin facilities
And might expand into a hyperscale campus
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Salesforce to acquire analytics company Tableau for $15.7 billion
All stock deal expected to close by November, with Tableau remaining an independent company
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Report: IBM to cut 1,700 jobs
Amid $34 billion Red Hat acquisition
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New York power plants could become hyperscale data centers in $650 million conversion
As the coal-burning plants cannot hit strict carbon dioxide targets
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Google Cloud to acquire data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion
Thomas Kurian's first major acquisition since becoming CEO of Google Cloud
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Illinois implements sweeping data center tax breaks
A new spending plan will bring in a sales tax exemption on computer equipment as well as a 20 percent income tax break for data center operators
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Google plans fourth Belgian data center for €600 million
Bringing investment in the Saint-Ghislain campus to €1.6 billion ($1.79bn)
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1GW capacity greenfield site announced for Finland
As part of a collection of hyperscale greenfield sites in the country