DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Scaleway launches two availability zones for Italy cloud region
Brings total to three AZs
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Meta named as company behind 3,000 acre data center project in Mason County, Kentucky
Will receive a 40-year tax break on property taxes
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Meta under investigation regarding alleged tax filings claiming data center projects qualify for research credits
United States Senate Committee on Finance writes to CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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Starling Bank to train transactional foundation model on Civo's UK sovereign cloud platform
Claims to be the first bank to do so
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United Overseas Bank taps AWS for hybrid cloud strategy
Will combine on-premises infrastructure and cloud computing
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Microsoft denies cloud leadership called for significant cost cutting measures
Reports had suggested the company was reducing spending by at least 20 percent
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Google signs 20-year PPA with AEP for 702MW Wyoming fuel cell project
Fuel cells to be supplied by Bloom Energy
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IURC approves AES Indiana plan for $1.3bn solar, storage, and transmission project for Google data center in Monrovia
Google is expected to pay for all the costs associated with the project
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Iren targets 900MW data center campus in Wagga Wagga, Australia
Company aiming for 2029 grid connection
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Microsoft acquires 600 acres of land for data center in Woodward, Iowa
Local residents raise concerns
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Aether Infrastructure buys old gearbox factory in Strasbourg, France, for AI data center
Work could start this month
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Akamai signs 13MW rooftop solar vPPA with EDP in Singapore
Delivered from a portfolio of 27 solar projects
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Scaleway plans GPU cluster deployments in Sweden and Copenhagen
Announced during cloud company's AI-Pulse 2026 event
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Naver Cloud and FPT partner on AI buildout in Asia Pacific
Aim to accelerate development and deployment of AI data centers
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NTT to build $6.3bn data center for Anthropic in Japan - report
Sources say talks are in the "final stages"
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Oracle trucks in gas to support operations at Utah and Texas data centers - report
Reportedly considering the same for stalled Project Jupiter in New Mexico
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Chemical firm turns data center operator, proposes 500MW site in Maharashtra, India
Plans to put $3.3bn into the project
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FiveNines Group and Nexus Core Systems partner on 20MW data center in Morocco
Data center will be located outside of Casablanca
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Nebius signs LOI with Volt for data center capacity in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Nebius will lease capacity from the "AI Gigafactory" in the Port of Rotterdam
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Oxide Computer Company raises $445m in Series D funding round
Round led by Eclipse
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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Google's global head of advanced energy departs company
Michael Terrell leaves Google after 19 years
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Third strike on Yandex data center in Russia
Vladimir data center gets hit during drone strike
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Cipher extends Barber Lake data center lease commitments to 20 years
Fluidstack and unnamed AI lab agree lengthy leases
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Google's VP of global infrastructure and capacity Bikash Koley heads to TPU neocloud Crux AI
Leaves Google, but stays in the family
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Bitdeer AI signs 67MW AI cloud agreement in Malaysia
10-year lease will be engineered for GB300 NVL72 deployments
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IT service provider Infomaniak lists on Swiss stock exchange
The firm currently serves more than 300,000 European customers and operates three data centers in Switzerland
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Second Yandex data center hit in drone strikes in Russia
Yandex's data center in Kaluga has taken a hit