Tag: datacenters
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The Register: AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won’t last
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/synergy_research_dc_report/ Source: The Register Title: AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won’t last Feedly Summary: GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now… yet ‘long-term trend remains,’ says analyst Bets on the future demand for AI drove a 48 percent jump in spending on public cloud…
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The Register: Many people are saying a luxury Dubai property developer will blow $20B on US datacenters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/trump_20_billion_datacenter_investment/ Source: The Register Title: Many people are saying a luxury Dubai property developer will blow $20B on US datacenters Feedly Summary: A successful real-estate billionaire and Donald Trump walk into a bar… At a news conference on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump said Dubai-based luxury property developer DAMAC plans to invest $20 billion…
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The Register: Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/energy_crunch_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters Feedly Summary: But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand Datacenter operators are facing a paradoxical crisis – demand for their services is greater than ever before, just as access to power, environmental concerns,…
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The Register: How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/how_datacenters_use_water/ Source: The Register Title: How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible Feedly Summary: If they’re not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is Feature The explosive growth of datacenters that followed ChatGPT’s debut in 2022 has shone a spotlight on the environmental impact of these…
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The Register: First Foxconn, now Microsoft: Wisconsin town dissed by big tech
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/microsoft_pauses_datacenter_construction/ Source: The Register Title: First Foxconn, now Microsoft: Wisconsin town dissed by big tech Feedly Summary: Redmond’s pause to redesign planned datacenters won’t scuttle this project, say Mount Pleasant officials Count the residents of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin opposed to their town becoming a tech hub lucky: First, Foxconn abandoned its original $10…
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The Register: Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d’refresh
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/02/cloud_hardware_research_hpe/ Source: The Register Title: Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d’refresh Feedly Summary: 40% of world’s servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE Four in ten of the servers currently residing in datacenters across the globe are…
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The Register: Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/02/schneider_datacenter_consumption/ Source: The Register Title: Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid Feedly Summary: Report charts four scenarios from ‘Sustainable AI’ to ‘Who Turned Out The Lights?’ Policymakers need to carefully guide the future consumption of electricity by AI datacenters, according to a report that considers four potential scenarios and…
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The Register: Google thinks the grid can’t support AI, so it’s spending on solar for future datacenters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/google_solar_energy_datacenter/ Source: The Register Title: Google thinks the grid can’t support AI, so it’s spending on solar for future datacenters Feedly Summary: Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online Google believes the US electricity grid can’t deliver the energy needed to power datacenters that deliver AI services, so…
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The Register: Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/canada_ai_funding/ Source: The Register Title: Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race Feedly Summary: Project includes hundreds of millions of loonies for a national supercomputing facility Canada is one of the latest nations to catch the sovereign AI bug and plans to invest $2 billion CAD…