12/08/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: CoreWeave, Cohere, AWS, Northern Data Group, Compass Datacenters, CyrusOne, Space Networks
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Cohere and CoreWeave plan a multibillion-dollar data center in Canada. Cohere will be the anchor tenant of the CoreWeave-operated site, with capacity expected to be available for other companies.
[Link] AWS building ExaFLOPS-class supercomputer for AI with hundreds of thousands of homegrown Trainium2 processors. The company said it is building a machine with hundreds of thousands of its Trainium2 processors to achieve performance of roughly 65 ExaFLOPS for AI.
[Link] Northern Data Group (Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers, and Peak Mining) announced plans to build a new 120MW data center 70 miles NE of Atlanta. The company said the site will support high-density and liquid-cooled infrastructure.
[Link] Compass Datacenters signed a multi-year capacity agreement with Siemens to supply a custom modular medium-voltage skid solution, which consolidates the capabilities of multiple electrical components, including medium-voltage switchgear and transformers, into a single integrated unit.
[Link] Investment management Cloud Capital has closed on its $1.325 billion asset-backed securities issuance.
[Link] CyrusOne announced plans to enter the Italian data center market with its latest development in Milan, named MIL1. The MIL1 data center will deliver 27 megawatts of IT capacity across 9,000 square meters of technical space within a single building over three floors.
[Link] Cadence Design Systems and AST SpaceMobile announced their collaboration to advance AST SpaceMobile’s mission to eliminate connectivity gaps and connect people around the world with high-speed, space-based internet access. The two companies collaborated on the AST5000 ASIC, a custom, low-power architecture that is the cornerstone of AST’s next-generation BlueBird program. Designed to enable up to a tenfold improvement in processing bandwidth on each satellite, the AST5000 ASIC unlocks opportunities for seamless space-based cellular broadband services worldwide.
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