Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects On-Prem16 Jan 2024 | 17
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7
Official: Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to swallow Juniper Networks in $14B deal Monopoly watchdogs permitting Networks10 Jan 2024 | 21
HPE's Hotard hits the hot seat at Intel's datacenter and AI biz Outsider brought in to rule crucial unit will play key part in AI strategy Systems04 Jan 2024 |
Japan to test datacenter powered by reused hydrogen fuel cells The source? Repurposed parts from electric vehicles On-Prem03 Jan 2024 | 13
2024 sure looks like an exciting year for datacenter silicon Comment Loads of chips from Nvidia, AMD, Intel on the way – and very probably some surprises along the way as well On-Prem02 Jan 2024 | 1
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip Analysis Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid On-Prem26 Dec 2023 | 60
Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter' Small rack to lift off in 2027 – we reckon it might be 10U or 12U, which can pack a lot of power On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 23
California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling 'Water? Like out of the toilet?' It will get cleaned first and it'll be better than Brawndo Bootnotes19 Dec 2023 | 46
Facing stiff competition, Intel's Lisa Spelman reflects on Xeon hurdles, opportunities Interview With Emerald Rapids, Chipzilla's Xeon roadmap is back on track – now it just needs to stay there Systems18 Dec 2023 | 6
Your landlord should offer on-prem cloud, suggests immersed datacenter upstart Server tanks can do more than heat water – they can also build into resilient many-site clouds On-Prem18 Dec 2023 | 16
Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned Software cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros Systems14 Dec 2023 | 44
Intel wants to run AI on CPUs and says its 5th-gen Xeons are ones to do it Oh and it's got more cores, a bigger cache, and a simpler chiplet architecture to boot Systems14 Dec 2023 | 5
Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans Systems13 Dec 2023 | 2
AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code Interview CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years Systems08 Dec 2023 | 11
Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 12
Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2
Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts To blame? The usual suspect – AI's appetite for chips Systems04 Dec 2023 | 7
China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 3
Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns Search giant exploring more locations to squeeze watts from rocks On-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 31
Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames? On-Prem28 Nov 2023 | 15
Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump Integration woes delay Nvidia's hopes of maintaining grip on Middle Kingdom Systems27 Nov 2023 | 2
Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36
Nvidia intros the 'SuperNIC' – it's like a SmartNIC, DPU or IPU, but more super If you're doing AI but would rather not do InfiniBand, this NIC is for you Networks21 Nov 2023 | 6
Researchers weigh new benchmarks for Green500 amid shifting workload priorities SC23 Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything HPC20 Nov 2023 |
Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes Might be great for the datacenter, but not likely to be in EVs anytime soon On-Prem15 Nov 2023 | 28
Intel drops the deets on UK's Dawn AI supercomputer SC23 Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that HPC13 Nov 2023 | 6
Datacenter would spoil beautiful view ... of former industrial waste dump Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council Systems10 Nov 2023 | 53
Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 20
Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 17
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 27
UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters A load of hot air? On-Prem06 Nov 2023 | 189
Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word Analysis But the astronomical performance thresholds mean few ML operators will be required to report at this rate HPC05 Nov 2023 | 18
Nvidia sells Foxconn on AI factories that turn raw data into profit Or, at least, information that can drive profits anyway AI + ML18 Oct 2023 |
Hyperscale datacenter capacity set to triple because of AI demand And it's going to suck... up more power too AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 1
Microsoft seeking robots to help automate datacenters Redmond runs ad to hire fleshbag team manager to make the magic happen On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 6
If you're brave enough to move fully-laden datacenter racks, here's the robot for you Open Compute Partner with a material handling pedigree appears to be doing it for Meta already On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 30
AI processing could consume 'as much electricity as Ireland' Boffins estimate power needed if every Google search became an LLM interaction. Gulp AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 14
Datacenter cabling biz Volex confirms digital break-in All sites operational, no 'material' financial impact expected but stock markets still worried Cyber-crime09 Oct 2023 |
China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge, storage, memory, and … Blu-ray? Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity Off-Prem09 Oct 2023 | 10
Blockchain biz goes nuclear: Standard Power wants to use NuScale reactors for DCs Please, no crypto boom, thank you Systems08 Oct 2023 | 36
Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5
Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore Off-Prem04 Oct 2023 | 45
Microsoft takes concrete steps (literally) toward greener datacenter construction Plan is to mix a dose of sustainability into bit barn foundations On-Prem03 Oct 2023 | 11
From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history? Analysis Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it? HPC03 Oct 2023 | 31
CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments A petabyte or more a day of readings? No problem, pal Storage02 Oct 2023 | 12
Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed Skills shortage is also holding industry back, survey finds CxO02 Oct 2023 | 4
Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong? Kettle Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 95
Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling 30th birthday post reveals 2004 disaster movie continues to influence company strategy On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 12
Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power? Analysis Three words: Cheap, reliable, power Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 71
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Systems26 Sep 2023 |
Facing a 30% price rise to park servers in a colo? Blame AI Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace On-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 3
Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them And they're all tailored for efficiency Systems20 Sep 2023 | 12
Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4
Schneider Electric warns that existing datacenters aren't buff enough for AI You're going to need liquid-cooled servers, 415V PDUs, two-ton racks, and plenty of software management On-Prem19 Sep 2023 | 11
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade Systems18 Sep 2023 | 11
Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 21
d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models Microsoft among in-memory AI chip startup's backers AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 3
Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs HPC02 Sep 2023 | 19
Demand for datacenter capacity in Europe sees busiest Q2 ever 'Pre-leasing' also on the up as customers try to grab space in bit barns as they're being built Systems01 Sep 2023 | 2
Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters Analysis If you thought a 700W GPU was hot, imagine what it takes to keep racks full of 15kW accelerators cool On-Prem18 Aug 2023 | 15
Virginia industrial park wants to power DCs with mini nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen It's buzzword bingo: The datacenter sustainability edition On-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 16