01/12/2025 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Amazon, Compass Datacenters, HPE, Quantum Computing
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Amazon said it plans to invest about $11 billion to expand its infrastructure in Georgia to support cloud computing and AI technologies. AWS also launched an infrastructure region in Thailand - with plans to invest more than $5 billion.
[Link] Compass Datacenters announced it is locating its next hyperscale data center campus in Meridian, Mississippi, representing an investment of $10 billion.
[Link] HPE has struck a deal worth over $1 billion to provide Elon Musk's social media platform X with servers optimized for artificial intelligence work, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
[Link] Arizona Public Service Company (APS), the state’s largest electric utility, has secured a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $1.81 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office that will help finance investments into several new or upgraded transmission projects, renewable power generation, and grid-integrated energy storage systems.
🤯 [Link] China is developing the Advanced Attosecond Laser Infrastructure (AALI), a groundbreaking scientific facility designed to push the boundaries of ultrafast laser technology. The project will span two sites - Dongguan and Xi'an - and feature 10 beamlines and 22 research terminals, with completion expected within five years. An attosecond is one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second.
[Link] D-Wave Quantum announced that fiscal year 2024 bookings will exceed $23 million, an increase of approximately 120% over fiscal year 2023 bookings. Contributing to the growth in bookings, the company also announced the first-ever customer purchase of a D-Wave Advantage annealing quantum computing system reflecting a significant expansion to the company’s revenue model.
[Link] Synaptics announced that it is collaborating with Google on Edge AI for the IoT to define the optimal implementation of multimodal processing for context-aware computing. The collaboration will integrate Google’s MLIR-compliant ML core on the Synaptics Astra hardware with open-source software and tools.
[Link] DDN announced a strategic investment of $300 million from Blackstone, valuing the company at $5 billion.
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