Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027 Systems01 Nov 2024 | 2
Microsoft tries out wooden bit barns to cut construction emissions The two hybrid datacenters promise 35% less embodied carbon than steel builds, 65% less than concrete On-Prem01 Nov 2024 | 15
UK gov report to propose special zones for datacenters, 'AI visas' Vendors not keen on 'lengthy bureaucracy,' and cost when they try to hire skilled foreigners On-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 61
Meta spruiks benefits of open sourcing Llama models – to its own bottom line It's not like Zuck needs the coin despite increased infrastructure spend, headcount, losses on VR Off-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 10
Equinix to pad Thai coffers with $500 million investment Another Asian country declares ambition to be a tech hub Off-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 6
AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct Systems30 Oct 2024 | 4
Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds 'The single biggest constraint is access,' says exec looking to invest 'hundreds of millions' On-Prem29 Oct 2024 | 44
Energy exec punts datacenter power options out to long term Bit barns aren't going to hook up to nuclear in a rush Systems25 Oct 2024 | 5
European datacenter energy consumption set to triple by end of decade McKinsey warns an additional 25GW of mostly green energy will be needed On-Prem25 Oct 2024 | 8
Hugging Face puts the squeeze on Nvidia's software ambitions AI model repo promises lower costs, broader compatibility for NIMs competitor AI + ML24 Oct 2024 | 16
Nvidia CEO whines Europeans aren’t buying enough GPUs EU isn’t keeping up with US and China investments, AI arms dealer says Systems24 Oct 2024 | 34
Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that's still years away Google, Amazon, Microsoft dive into costly deals that aren't generating anything yet On-Prem18 Oct 2024 | 95
Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal Snags controlling stake in Motivair Corporation, rest to come by 2028 On-Prem17 Oct 2024 |
Datacenter CEO faked top-tier IT reliability cert to snag $10.7M SEC deal, DoJ claims Updated The Uptime Institute rates availability. The 'Uptime Council' … apparently doesn't exist Off-Prem17 Oct 2024 | 21
Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition Systems16 Oct 2024 | 37
AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded Systems15 Oct 2024 | 16
Norway datacenter dumps diesel diet, goes veggie with biofuel backup Operator Stack Infrastructure is committed to reducing Scope 1 emissions from its facilities On-Prem15 Oct 2024 | 33
Britain opens floodgates to US datacenter investment Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway? Systems15 Oct 2024 | 20
Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6 Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables Public Sector14 Oct 2024 | 20
AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels Systems14 Oct 2024 | 23
Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain On-Prem11 Oct 2024 | 30
AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut Just not on the same chip, of course Systems10 Oct 2024 | 18
AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025 Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper Systems10 Oct 2024 | 5
Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center Systems09 Oct 2024 | 2
TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4 Systems08 Oct 2024 |
Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway' Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 80
China reportedly tells local AI buyers to ignore Nvidia In Brief Plus: Google, Oracle, spend $9.5 billion on Asia datacenters; Philippines to tax clouds; Vietnam infosec praised; and more AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 3
Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's rent-a-GPU racket Analysis This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25 Networks06 Oct 2024 |
AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn Updated Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 26
Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters Tech's consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 4
Blackstone invests £10B to build Europe's 'biggest AI datacenter' in UK Construction slated to begin next year at site of failed BritishVolt plant Systems26 Sep 2024 | 17
Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters With 2.5 million Blackwell GPUs, would gobble enough energy to power millions of homes Systems25 Sep 2024 | 26
With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it Systems24 Sep 2024 | 21
Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant We'll have some fission chips, please On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 60
Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent' On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 20
Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent Also reveals boosted utilization rates, upgraded IaaS and more – all in the name of AI apps Off-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 4
SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 4
Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of 'em AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 6
Objections to datacenter builds may be overruled now they are 'Critical National Infrastructure' Well you wouldn't get far protesting a water system or a power grid, right? On-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 34
Alibaba Cloud waiting for hardware to dry out before trying to restore customer data Digital Realty's Singapore disaster still complicating cloud after a week Off-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 8
'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London Exclusive 'Commercially sensitive' incognito buyer has a lot more support than last group that tried to build a bit barn near M25 On-Prem13 Sep 2024 | 52
AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals Comment CEO Lisa Su sets sights on being best in GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, everything... as Intel struggles Systems12 Sep 2024 | 12
UK elevates datacenters to critical national infrastructure status Dedicated support to be assembled to prevent cyberattacks, IT outages, and bad weather from affecting availability On-Prem12 Sep 2024 | 16
Nvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs Systems12 Sep 2024 | 8
Amazon to pour £8B into UK datacenters through to 2028 How kind. Now how about looking at the corporation tax bill... On-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 20
Oracle wants to power 1GW datacenter with trio of tiny nuclear reactors Isn't saying how much they'll cost or when they'll fire up Off-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 22
Alibaba Cloud struggles after blaze at Digital Realty Singapore datacenter Chinese giant claims lithium batteries exploded, now one server hall is waterlogged PaaS + IaaS10 Sep 2024 | 4
Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI Carbon capture outfits could be making up to $45B, say analysts On-Prem06 Sep 2024 | 57
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 | 5
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 | 62
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 | 13
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
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