DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Synopsys and Amazon sign $1bn multi-year IP agreement for custom chip development
Amazon now serving as lead customer for Synopsys’ expanded silicon IP business
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Microsoft launches Azure Extended Zone in Luxembourg
Deployed in partnership with Post Luxembourg
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NxN enters Portugal with 1MW data center and plans to invest €100m
The company has finalized the acquisition a data center in Évora
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Balearic Islands launches new data center for critical government systems
The facility is integrated with a regional government data center in Sant Pere
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Custom chip firm Semifive signs $52m deal with unnamed US AI company
Accelerator will be targeted at hyperscalers and CSPs once production begins in 2028
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Eurofiber and Delft Networks deploy dark-fiber between Rotterdam and Delft for quantum
The companies have deployed the entanglement-ready dark fiber connecting Delft and Rotterdam in a closed loop configuration
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Comcast deploys fiber sensing tech to monitor network in real-time
The technology uses fiber lines to detect and pinpoint activity along Comcast's network
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ZutaCore partners with Options Technology to offer liquid cooling to financial services
Options to offer liquid cooling to its customers across its 40 data center deployments
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Fire at data center in Seoul, South Korea, sees 100 people evacuated
Blaze thought to have started in UPS room
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Trane & LiquidStack launch new 2.5MW CDU
Shipping of new unit to start in Q2 2027
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Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth following investment from Nvidia and Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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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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Finland to abandon first-come, first-served grid connections, dropping data centers down the queue
Draft amendment looks at reallocating priority based on four groupings
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Australia's CDC plans gigawatt-scale data center campus in Wagga Wagga
Company files for four-building campus well outside usual NSW hubs of Sydney and Canberra
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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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BrightRay plans 40MW data center in Macau
Company set to sell majority stake to BUUU
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FCC tells Verizon it needs more time to review carrier's copper retirement proposals
Verizon must wait to find out if it can decommission copper services in portions of nine states
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Haydale's graphene additive could improve the efficiency of data center cooling fluid
Solution set to be deployed in data centers over the next year
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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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DataBank acquires leased data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from Mapletree Industrial Trust
DataBank exercises option to buy facility after ten years of leasing
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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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Hypertec CEO: We are "absolutely considering" taking data center firm 5C public
5C set to complete next $5-6bn financing round first
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Bain interested in buying Edged US - report
Investment could add to holdings in DC Blox
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AT&T follows rival Verizon in tapping Corning for fiber push
New multi-year deal is valued at more than $3 billion
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Infineon and Eaton partner on silicon-carbide-based solid-state transformers to support 800VDC power architectures
Infineon SiC power devices will be deployed in Eaton’s MVSST 2.0 platform
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EU Chips Joint Undertaking puts out two calls for AI hardware development projects
Calls have a combined budget of €80 million
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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