DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - North America
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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AT&T to sell Mexico unit to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2bn
An exit from the market has been on the table for a while
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LS Electric secures $138m order to supply switchgear for Bloom fuel cells at Pennsylvania data center
Second deal between the companies
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D-Wave signs quantum chip manufacturing deal with SkyWater Technologies
D-Wave will work with SkyWater team in Minnesota to develop specialized chips
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Google data center strategic sourcing exec heads to OpenAI
Allyson Fealtman to focus on high-speed interconnect and rack power
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Microchip Technology updates its networking and storage products to better support AI and HPC workloads
Expanded data center portfolio will help customers address multiple infrastructure challenges, the company said
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Simple Mining buys Sphere 3D cryptomine, grows Iowa footprint to 160MW
$1.5m purchase closed on September 1
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FERC approves PJM's request to create data center database
Rejects separate request to curtail power to data centers during periods of grid stress
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Legrand to integrate Karman AI platform into data center PDUs and power shelves
First deal following Karman's rebrand
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Microsoft unveils Azure Maia 300, says chip will be its “primary inference system”
Meanwhile, Maia 200 has already been deployed across multiple geographies
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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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T-Mobile CTO warns SpaceX that it takes more than just spectrum to build a network
But does welcome the challenge of a competitor for the 'Big 3'
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SWI raises €800 million for data center expansion
Funds to support projects in the US and Europe
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Ringleader of multi-state cell tower theft gang sentenced to six and a half years in prison
The scheme put 911 services at risk
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Memphis council delays decision on year-long data center moratorium despite protests
Home of Musk's xAI data centers could ban new developments for 12 months
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Nvidia opens up Vera Rubin rack and tray designs to OCP
MGX 1.2 spec doubles down on liquid cooling
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Nvidia gears up to smash CPU hegemony as Vera starts shipping
Dedicated ‘discrete’ processor platform segregates agentic workloads from NVL72 to boost performance
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Echion partners with Proper Voltage to develop 1.6MW UPS for AI data centers
Ink MoU to develop an integrated system
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Supermicro contractor Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun pleads guilty to four counts associated with Nvidia chip smuggling charges
Charges include conspiracies to violate export controls, smuggle goods, defraud the US, and obstruct justice
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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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AMD unveils Helion rack to support agentic AI workloads
Company says rack is customizable, with CPU-only version available
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Serverfarm tops out first data center at Arkansas campus
Building to offer 108MW across 300,000 sq ft
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Former Hut 8 executive takes CEO role at Fortitude Mining Holdings
Jaime Leverton assumed her new role last month
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Five-building data center campus proposed in Metter, Georgia
Developer behind project currently unknown
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Oratomic raises $775m for development of fault-tolerant quantum computer
Pasadena-based startup emerged from stealth in March 2026
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Hyperscale Data plans Patriot BTC subsidiary for Bitcoin mining business
Will transfer Montana data center to new company
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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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Bitdeer expands Soluna mining agreement to 35MW
Builds on agreement announced in August
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xAI's Michael Roberson joins OpenAI infrastructure team as commissioning program manager
As well as other SpaceXAI staff and former Meta employees