AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 9
Microsoft aims to triple datacenter capacity to fuel AI boom And it's far from the only hyperscaler getting in on the act On-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 2
RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs On-Prem17 Apr 2024 |
Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 49
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
OpenAI CEO wants UAE into his plan for a global AI cabal Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 7
GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15
Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial Systems11 Apr 2024 | 15
Next-gen Meta AI chip serves up ads while sipping power Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet On-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 6
Intel CEO suggests AI can help to create a one-person Unicorn Intel Vision And possibly replace entire business units too AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 38
Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030 Robot overlords demand more energy Systems09 Apr 2024 | 20
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Intel Gaudi's third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia's H100 Intel Vision Goodbye dedicated AI hardware and hello to a GPU that fuses Xe graphics DNA with Habana chemistry Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO interview Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry Systems08 Apr 2024 | 42
Liquid cooling specialist snags Microsoft datacenter wizard as advisor Iceotope will need the help as it navigates the frosty waters of global expansion On-Prem05 Apr 2024 | 2
Lambda borrows half a billion bucks to grow its GPU cloud Will buy tens of thousands of Nvidia's prized accelerators, which will be collateral for the loan PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2024 | 8
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027 Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13
Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 22
Datacenter outages are on the decline, but when they hit, they hit hard Power snafus take limelight in latest downtime diary from Uptime Institute On-Prem02 Apr 2024 | 3
Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer Play it again, Sam AI + ML01 Apr 2024 | 34
Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs Video Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Systems27 Mar 2024 | 2
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon Systems27 Mar 2024 | 4
CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix Off-Prem27 Mar 2024 | 168
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networks25 Mar 2024 | 2
As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love... Systems25 Mar 2024 | 54
AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future Comment LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Systems25 Mar 2024 | 7
Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland Exclusive In wake of Post Office Horizon scandal, global execs set new profit target, and Irish ops fell short On-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 35
One rack. 120kW of compute. Taking a closer look at Nvidia's DGX GB200 NVL72 beast GTC 1.44 exaFLOPs of FP4, 13.5 TB of HBM3e, 2 miles of NVLink cables, in one liquid cooled unit Systems21 Mar 2024 | 22
First the Super Bowl, now this: Kansas City getting a Google bit barn Exact location, power source, and go-live date unknown. But don't worry, there'll be digital jobs Off-Prem20 Mar 2024 | 3
Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots? GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU Systems19 Mar 2024 | 14
Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast Systems18 Mar 2024 | 17
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source Science14 Mar 2024 | 58
From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI’s latest hire tells us about its future Analysis What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
Google searches for boss to get grip on climate, energy costs of this AI hype cycle Hyperscalers increasingly looking over shoulders as workloads grow AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 3
Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech Databases12 Mar 2024 |
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works Hot and hungry, yet direct liquid cooling may not be required On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 19
Synopsys unleashes Ethernet on steroids with 1.6T blueprint to turbocharge AI training Design aims to sate the bandwidth hunger of next-gen networks Networks04 Mar 2024 |
Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 28
40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13
Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs Appears to be struggling to find them, even in India, as it's re-posted job ads On-Prem23 Feb 2024 | 14
Europe's datacenter dilemma is that hyperscalers are hogging them all Space scarcity and soaring build costs send rent through the roof On-Prem20 Feb 2024 | 4
What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer? Updated It'll have 10K GPUs! No, 4,608! Err... 2,816? HPC19 Feb 2024 | 11
Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server? Analysis Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash On-Prem16 Feb 2024 | 38
Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared Comment $7 trillion will buy you a helluva lotta fabs or every chip biz of consequence Systems10 Feb 2024 | 59
Nvidia wants a piece of the custom silicon pie, reportedly forms unit to peddle IP Don't want a GPU? How about some intellectual property or design help? Systems09 Feb 2024 | 1
With $1B to burn on green tech, HSBC seeks Google’s help The clock's ticking on those 2030 net zero climate goals Systems08 Feb 2024 | 7
Cisco, Nvidia expand collab to push Ethernet into AI clusters InfiniBand dominates in GPU-boosted servers while Big E gains steam Networks08 Feb 2024 |
Bank boss has pay slashed after presiding over tech outages in 2023 Singapore's DBS wants accountability for digital dropouts CxO07 Feb 2024 | 4
IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads They're measuring server exhaust temperatures to detect power consumption AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 17
Think tank funded by Big Tech argues AI’s climate impact is nothing to worry about Sure, datacenters consume lots of energy. But maybe they'll invent stuff that helps Off-Prem07 Feb 2024 | 12
Faraday plots a 64-core Arm chip with Intel inside The melding of Neoverse cores and x86 giant's latest process tech was bound to happen eventually Systems05 Feb 2024 | 6
Where there's a will, there's a way to get US chips into China Buy 'em, rent 'em, smuggle 'em – export restrictions don't cover illegitimate means Systems05 Feb 2024 | 10
Singtel does the 'we’re building datacenters to host Nvidia clusters’ thing Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI Off-Prem01 Feb 2024 | 1
Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services Off-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 5
AMD bets demand for its MI300 accelerator will balance dips across other product lines Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone On-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 2
That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century Opinion We've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want it On-Prem29 Jan 2024 | 120
Datacenters could account for a third of Ireland's electricity by 2026 International Energy Agency has some chilling global figures in latest report On-Prem24 Jan 2024 | 31
Does AI give InfiniBand a moment to shine? Or will Ethernet hold the line? You could go all-in on Nvidia for the lower latency. Or tough it out with less exotic kit and tolerate slower training Systems24 Jan 2024 | 6
Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors On-Prem23 Jan 2024 | 41
Google building datacenter campus on the outskirts of London Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet's plans for 'future capacity needs' On-Prem22 Jan 2024 | 9