Tag: datacenter
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The Register: ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/st_micro_pluggables/ Source: The Register Title: ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics Feedly Summary: It’s Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news Developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, ST Micro detailed a new photonic integrated circuit (PIC) on Thursday…
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The Register: Euro cloud biz trials ‘server blades in a cold box’ system
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/diggers_exoscale_liquid_cooling/ Source: The Register Title: Euro cloud biz trials ‘server blades in a cold box’ system Feedly Summary: Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger’s claims A1 Digital is testing liquid cooling tech for power-intensive AI servers that is claimed to save 50 percent…
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The Register: Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with ‘beta’ rollout
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/grok_3/ Source: The Register Title: Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with ‘beta’ rollout Feedly Summary: Musk’s latest attempt at a ‘maximally truth-seeking’ bot arrives Grok 3 has begun rolling out. xAI founder Elon Musk describes the chatbot as “a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with…
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The Register: Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn ‘capital of the world’ Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/datacenter_power_virginia/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn ‘capital of the world’ Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024 Feedly Summary: Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand Demand for electricity from datacenters in Virginia nearly doubled in the second half of 2024, power supplier Dominion…
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The Register: London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/london_has_400_gw_of/ Source: The Register Title: London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds Feedly Summary: And up to 70% of stalled energy generation projects are unlikely to be approved, claims regulator Ofgem While the UK government wants to turbocharge datacenter construction, a newly published report says there are already 400…
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The Register: France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/08/uae_france_dc_ai/ Source: The Register Title: France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet Feedly Summary: Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France this week announced plans for a one-gigawatt AI datacenter campus dedicated to advancing development of artificial intelligence.… AI…