Tag: datacenter
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The Register: Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/01/amd_fujitsu_monaka_instinct/ Source: The Register Title: Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs Feedly Summary: Before you get too excited, Fujitsu’s next-gen chips won’t ship till 2027 Fujitsu and AMD announced plans on Friday to develop a new, more energy-efficient AI and HPC compute platform that will pair the Japanese…
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The Register: Amazon to cough $75B on capex in 2024, more next year
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/01/amazon_75b_capex/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon to cough $75B on capex in 2024, more next year Feedly Summary: Despite extending server lifespans, AI’s power demands drive more datacenter builds Amazon expects to spend $75 billion on capital expenditure in 2024 and even more in 2025 – mostly on its cloud computing business –…
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The Register: UK gov report to propose special zones for datacenters, ‘AI visas’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/uk_gov_datacenter_zone/ Source: The Register Title: UK gov report to propose special zones for datacenters, ‘AI visas’ Feedly Summary: Vendors not keen on ‘lengthy bureaucracy,’ and cost when they try to hire skilled foreigners UK government is to recommend streamlining the visa process for those with AI skills and the creation of special zones…
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The Register: Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_q1_fy_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money Feedly Summary: Azure’s acceleration continues, but so do costs Microsoft has explained that its method of funding the tens of billions it’s spending on new datacenters and AI infrastructure is to shun customers who want to rent…
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Cloud Blog: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-sixth-generation-tpu-is-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future Feedly Summary: The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing…
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Cloud Blog: Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/speed-scale-reliability-25-years-of-data-center-networking/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution Feedly Summary: Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Google’s network. But 25 years in, we’ve built out network infrastructure with scale and technical sophistication that’s nothing short of remarkable. It’s all the more impressive…
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The Register: AMD teases its GPU biz ‘approaching the scale’ of CPU operations
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/amd_q3_2024/ Source: The Register Title: AMD teases its GPU biz ‘approaching the scale’ of CPU operations Feedly Summary: Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct AMD continued to ride a wave of demand for its Instinct MI300X AI accelerators – its…
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The Register: Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/datacenter_developer_says_power_issues/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds Feedly Summary: ‘The single biggest constraint is access,’ says exec looking to invest ‘hundreds of millions’ One of the UK’s major commercial property developers says it would be pumping investment into new datacenters if it could just secure the…
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The Register: European datacenter energy consumption set to triple by end of decade
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/eu_dc_power/ Source: The Register Title: European datacenter energy consumption set to triple by end of decade Feedly Summary: McKinsey warns an additional 25GW of mostly green energy will be needed Datacenter power consumption across Europe could roughly triple by the end of the decade, driven by mass adoption of everyone’s favorite tech trend:…
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The Register: Huawei releases data detailing serverless secrets
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/huawei_serverless_cold_start_research/ Source: The Register Title: Huawei releases data detailing serverless secrets Feedly Summary: Reveals why your functions start slowly on its cloud and maybe others too Huawei Cloud has released a huge trove of data describing the performance of its serverless services in the hope that other hyperscalers use it to improve their…