DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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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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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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Vodafone raises cost savings target for UK unit to £1bn
The previous figure was £700 million
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Mexican authorities seize cryptomine amid suspected cartel funding links
More than 1,000 cryptomining units discovered
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Council rejects 80MW data center in northern Italy
Municipality argues the plans go against its environmental policy
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Digital Realty begins work on KIX15 data center in Japan
New building on Osaka campus adds 24MW
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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
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Uncertainty over data center development in Trzebnica, Poland
Application unearthed by a local councilor who claimed details were hidden from scrutiny
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Starlink expands its ground stations in Spain to seven
The company has put three new ground stations into service
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Anthropic-linked $366m data center project filed for in Cedar Creek, Texas
First building will be located on Earl Callahan Road
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Report: Nvidia plans to invest in inference chip startup d-Matrix
Follows reports that company was seeking to raise additional funds, targeting $5bn valuation
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SpaceX to acquire Grain's 800MHz spectrum assets to further advance carrier ambitions
As the company continues to push to challenge US telcos
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Iraqi gov't reveals plans for five data centers
New facilities to be located in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul
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ThisWay Global plans 73MW AI and HPC data center in Bryan, Texas
Will offer compute to researchers, public sector, and industry users
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PsiQuantum receives $150m conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to expand manufacturing and prototyping efforts
Funding will support ongoing expansion of company’s California factory
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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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Verizon exec overhaul claims chief network officer Adam Koeppe
Koeppe in a LinkedIn post explained that 'it’s time to move on to the next chapter'
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Second Yandex data center hit in drone strikes in Russia
Yandex's data center in Kaluga has taken a hit
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Neocloud Firmus cancels IPO, blames market volatility
Firm had reduced initial share price due to weak demand
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Nokia to cut more than 250 jobs in Finland - report
The cuts are part of the company's cost-cutting plans put forward in 2023
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KT Cloud plans 50MW data center project in Incheon, South Korea
KT Cloud will serve as the design, build, and operate partner
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AI cloud company Boost Run secures $525.6m contract with Cohere
Cohere will use Boost Run's dedicated GPU cloud computing infrastructure
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Waste heat from Goodman data center in Frankfurt, Germany, to power district heating system
Firm will recover and supply 50MW to warm buildings and a swimming pool
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GlobalFoundries signs $2bn, five-year deal with TSMC for production of advanced packaging components
GF’s Malta, NY, fab will become first US source for supply of silicon interposers
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Oracle, Broadcom, and SpaceX looking to secure ten of billions in financing to support AI compute purchases – report
Broadcom is seeking $50bn, while SpaceX is looking to secure $40bn
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Google's €13bn data center buildout in Finland under investigation for 300-hectare forest removal
Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority requests reports from local municipalities