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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CoreWeave makes Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 available, Cognition is early customer
Neocloud also to offer Vera CPU alone, and announces customer contract
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Amazon signs PPA with Statkraft for windfarm in Shetland, Scotland
Builds other wind PPAs in the UK
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Google named as customer for Crusoe's data center campus in Amarillo, Texas
Campus set to span at least six single-story buildings
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Gimlet Cloud partners with Cerebras to deploy 100MW of wafer-scale compute
AI cloud startup recently secured $300 million in Series B funding round
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Google to double cloud capacity in Brazil in through 2030
Executives provide details on the expansion of data centers as well as the arrival of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in the country
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Alibaba Cloud plans new cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, the Netherlands
Will also expand existing footprint in Malaysia, Germany, UAE, and elsewhere
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Google receives planning permission to expand data center in Dublin, Ireland
An Coimisiún Pleanála greenlights plans
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Meta signs on to use AI capacity at Firmus' Southeast Asia data centers
Builds on existing agreements in Australia
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Amazon to acquire two data centers in Hong Kong
Cloud company buys leased facility from landlord
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Amazon buys land outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sunsuria sells two million sq ft in Sepang to Amazon Data Services
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Lambda plans data center in Oklahoma
Company to develop outside Tulsa, near Google's campus
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Sharon AI to lease capacity from Australia’s GreenSquareDC
Former IBM site to become host for Aussie neocloud
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Akamai signs $11.6bn compute deal with Anthropic
AI firm to lease capacity from cloud and Edge company to support CPU workloads
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AI cloud and data center firm Nscale raises $3.36bn ahead of its IPO
Follows publication of IPO prospectus
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Project Suncatcher: Google to launch first space data center test in orbit next week
TPUs are ready to catch some rays, hyperscaler claims
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Microsoft to invest $10bn into Gulf states by 2030
Earmarked for investments across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait
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Meta signs 144MW solar PPA with Apex in Texas
Seventh agreement between the two companies
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Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900, says cloud capacity will hit 20GW by 2032
New AI chip slated for release in Q1 2027
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Google inks deal to support nuclear uprates at Georgia Power's Vogtle and Hatch plants
Will add 96MW of additional capacity across the two plants
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Google-backed battery storage pilot in Texas demonstrates how BESS can improve hourly carbon-free matching for data centers
Pilot undertaken by Quintrace, esVolta, and LevelTen Energy
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Prysmian, Rio Tinto to supply Amazon data center in Ohio with low-carbon aluminum
Will deliver electrical cabling to the data center
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Nabiax breaks ground on 100MW data center in Madrid, Spain
Nabiax to reach 135MW of capacity in Spain across Madrid and Catalonia
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Generac signs $8bn back up generator deal with Amazon
Initial deliveries over next two years will total $2.4bn
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Google inks multi-million ton carbon removal deal with ERW firm Terradot
The hyperscaler's largest carbon removal deal to date
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Oracle signs 1.7GW of wind energy supply agreements to support operations in Texas
Includes major deals with RWE and Engie
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SharonAI buys former printing press outside Albury, Australia
Company hasn't shared details on plans
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Bitdeer AI to lease 65MW data center in Johor, Malaysia
Company to rent second building at Malaysian campus
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Blockfusion signs CoreWeave as a customer in Niagara Falls, New York
CoreWeave signs deal with another reformed cryptominer