Tag: datacenter
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The Register: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over Feedly Summary: A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants Many of the world’s top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns…
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Slashdot: AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/1835230/amd-warns-of-new-meltdown-spectre-like-bugs-affecting-cpus Source: Slashdot Title: AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AMD has identified a newly discovered side-channel attack, known as the Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA), which poses a potential information disclosure risk across a variety of its chip models. Although the vulnerabilities…
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The Register: Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/tariffs_and_trade_turmoil_driving/ Source: The Register Title: Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters Feedly Summary: Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something’s gotta give World War Fee Datacenter operators in Northern Europe say US tariffs and growing global geopolitical instability are inflating costs and causing…
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The Register: EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/eu_shakes_its_purse_and/ Source: The Register Title: EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running Feedly Summary: 176 expressions of interest to erect ‘gigafactories’ across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed It’s pork barrel time in Europe for Nvidia (and possibly AMD) as corporations bid for a slice of the €20…
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The Register: Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we’ll evaporate
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/cispe_eu_water_resilience/ Source: The Register Title: Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we’ll evaporate Feedly Summary: CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flight The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body has put forward recommendations for the EU’s Water Resilience Strategy, perhaps mindful that…
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The Register: Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/cisco_punts_networksecurity_integration/ Source: The Register Title: Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI Feedly Summary: Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI…
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The Register: The network is indeed trying to become the computer
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/analysis_network_computing/ Source: The Register Title: The network is indeed trying to become the computer Feedly Summary: Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems Analysis Moore’s Law has run out of gas and AI workloads need massive amounts of parallel compute and high bandwidth memory right next to it – both of which…
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The Register: Gridlocked: AI’s power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/us_datacenter_power_crunch/ Source: The Register Title: Gridlocked: AI’s power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure Feedly Summary: You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns Power required by AI datacenters in the US may be more than 30 times greater in a decade, with 5 GW facilities already in the pipeline..… AI Summary…