Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling
Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom
PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 1
Datacenter
AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself
Comment Its energy addiction, on the other hand, only seems to get worse
AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 30
atNorth plans mega datacenter that will help grow veggies and heat homes
It'll also do computery stuff
On-Prem04 Sep 2024 | 1
Cloud computing hits the nuclear button amid energy crisis
Analysis Other options considered too as the power draw on electricity grids continues unabated
Cloud Infrastructure Month03 Sep 2024 | 9
Nvidia admits Blackwell defect, but Jensen Huang pledges Q4 shipments as promised
The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 3
AMD's Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores the need for efficient silicon
Hot Chips Moore's Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 8
NARROWER TOPICS
DataVita declares sovereignty with 'National Cloud' for UK
Scottish provider promises no hidden fees, full control, and safe haven for data
PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2024 | 11
Copper's reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs
What good is going fast if you can't get past the next rack?
Networks28 Aug 2024 | 3
Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS
Hot Chips Shove 32 of 'em in a box and you've got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 6
Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall
DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council - unless your name is Microsoft
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 13
Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates
Hot Chips Faster than you can read? More like blink and you'll miss the hallucination
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 7
Meta digs deep to strike geothermal power deal for its US datacenters
Teaming up with Sage Geosystems, house of Facbook plans to tap into Earth's fiery underbelly
On-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 9
India misses ten million public WiFi hotspot goal, catchup not looking likely
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Glowing reports for Fukushima wastewater; New datacenters in Fiji, Malaysia & South Korea; and more
Public Sector26 Aug 2024 | 3
Open Compute Project seeks standard for concrete, with help from AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft
There's a lot of CO2 in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero
Cloud Infrastructure Month23 Aug 2024 | 10
LiquidStack says its new CDU can chill more than 1MW of AI compute
So what’s that good for? Like eight of Nvidia’s NVL-72s?
Systems22 Aug 2024 | 6
All that new AI-fueled datacenter space? Yeah, that's mostly ours – cloud giants
Construction surged 70% ... with 80% already snapped up
On-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 3
Virginia's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report
AI's thirst for power is only making things worse
On-Prem19 Aug 2024 | 26
Equinix pilots use of fuel cell in 'shipping container' outside datacenter
Future of low carbon sustainable tech? Not so fast, this is still a trial and only for backup power
On-Prem16 Aug 2024 | 17
If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be... Northern Virginia
If you guessed Beijing, sorry – but it is number 2, according to Synergy Research figures
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2024 | 10
Delays? We're still shipping 'small quantities' of Nvidia's GB200 in Q4, Foxconn insists
Production ramp won't kick off until Q1 2025
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 1
Icelandic group demos private cloud powered by renewables
Sited in Reykjavík, datacenter running on geothermals and hydropower
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 8
SiFive offers potential Neoverse N2 rival – the P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters
Chip upstart takes aim at Arm with design that can scale up to 256 cores
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 3
UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up
500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs
On-Prem14 Aug 2024 | 130
Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry
Biz set sights beyond just another rent-an-accelerator cluster provider
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
Cisco plans to slash thousands more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push
Updated Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday's earnings release
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 13
Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor
Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time
AI + ML12 Aug 2024 | 47
Gas pipeline players in talks to fuel AI datacenter demand
Utility tapped out? Why not build your own?
Systems11 Aug 2024 | 27
Cloud growth puts hyperscalers on track to take up 60% of datacenter capacity by 2029
Enterprises used to spend more on own kit than cloud infra services... now it's the other way around
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2024 |
Supermicro CEO teases service to build or upgrade datacenters in six months
Doubles annual revenue, but warns repeating that will be hard while waiting until March for Nvidia Blackwell
Cloud Infrastructure Month07 Aug 2024 | 2
AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code
Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight
HPC06 Aug 2024 | 1
Enterprise spend on cloud up sharply as world biz splashes $80B in Q2
Plus: Oracle nudges to top of second tier providers
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 |
AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure
Analysis Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades
Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2024 | 2
Rising costs biggest issue for datacenter operators as demand grows
Not to mention the skills gap, AI skepticism, and the unrelenting quest for power
Systems30 Jul 2024 | 3
Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023
Bit barns binge on Emerald Isle power
Systems25 Jul 2024 | 17
Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it
Is this what the kidz call a glow-up?
Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1
AMD claims Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores
Comment But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs?
Systems23 Jul 2024 | 2
Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market
Comment But will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls?
Systems22 Jul 2024 | 5
Don’t blame AI for rise in carbon emissions, says Google exec
Datacenter pollution is rising... but LLM workload not as big as you think
On-Prem18 Jul 2024 | 16
Your next datacenter could be in the middle of nowhere
Feature Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found
Off-Prem15 Jul 2024 | 14
Microsoft tries to clear the air with mountains of CO2 credits
'Supply chains still powered by coal and gas' scoffs Greenpeace
On-Prem10 Jul 2024 | 21
CyrusOne scores another $7.9B in debt financing to expand AI datacenter empire
Lenders bet you're willing to rent GPUs
On-Prem10 Jul 2024 | 1
UK minister recalls two planning decisions which blocked datacenter investment
Deputy leader to act after promise of more business-friendly planning process
On-Prem09 Jul 2024 | 66
China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025
From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, - and cars
Off-Prem08 Jul 2024 | 2
Datacenter demand driven by AI... but constrained by power shortages
Not content with drinking up all our water, now we'll compete with DCs for power
AI + ML04 Jul 2024 | 7
Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal
AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC
On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 2
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner
Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power
VMware Explore03 Jul 2024 | 46
So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019
AI datacenters blamed for the increase, even as Chocolate Factory bets on AI to fix it
Off-Prem02 Jul 2024 | 35
Lambda on the hunt for 'another $800M' to fuel its GPU cloud
Why sell shovels when you can rent them
PaaS + IaaS01 Jul 2024 | 3
AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload
Cooling tech left to sweat the details
On-Prem28 Jun 2024 | 4
Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters
Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks
Systems27 Jun 2024 | 4
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training
Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks
Systems27 Jun 2024 | 6
AI's appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030
Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions
On-Prem26 Jun 2024 | 13
On-prem AI has arrived – the solution to cloudy problems no one really has
HPE discover Which isn't to say Nvidia and hyperscalers will win, says analyst Steve Brazier, as regulators circle
VMware Explore25 Jun 2024 | 3
Ooredoo to splash Nvidia GPUs across the Middle East
Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18–24 month lead in region
AI + ML25 Jun 2024 |
Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble
Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack
Systems24 Jun 2024 |
Supermicro plans to flood market with liquid-cooled datacenter tech
Three new Silicon Valley campuses in pipeline to meet demand
Systems19 Jun 2024 | 1
AMD says datacenter still king for profit margins amid AI buzz
CFO talks GPU development, strategy and market dynamics at Nasdaq Investor Conference
Systems17 Jun 2024 |
Google datacenters in Nevada to go full steam ahead with geothermal energy
Part of Mountain View's aim for carbon-free power by 2030
On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 6
UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers'
With a strong lead going into general election, opposition claims it will 'supercharge' tech sector
On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 47
OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle
Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 53
After contentious Amazon datacenter fight, US county says it has learned a lesson
Interview 'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers
On-Prem05 Jun 2024 | 5
SuperMicro CEO predicts liquid cooling will rack up 2,900 percent growth in two years
Computex Upgrading to improve density is the new green
On-Prem05 Jun 2024 | 3
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