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 | 6
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 | 10
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
Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |
Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure PaaS + IaaS16 Jan 2024 | 17
Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects On-Prem16 Jan 2024 | 17
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7
Official: Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to swallow Juniper Networks in $14B deal Monopoly watchdogs permitting Networks10 Jan 2024 | 21
HPE's Hotard hits the hot seat at Intel's datacenter and AI biz Outsider brought in to rule crucial unit will play key part in AI strategy Systems04 Jan 2024 |
Japan to test datacenter powered by reused hydrogen fuel cells The source? Repurposed parts from electric vehicles On-Prem03 Jan 2024 | 13
2024 sure looks like an exciting year for datacenter silicon Comment Loads of chips from Nvidia, AMD, Intel on the way – and very probably some surprises along the way as well On-Prem02 Jan 2024 | 1
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip Analysis Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid On-Prem26 Dec 2023 | 60
Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter' Small rack to lift off in 2027 – we reckon it might be 10U or 12U, which can pack a lot of power On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 23
California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling 'Water? Like out of the toilet?' It will get cleaned first and it'll be better than Brawndo Bootnotes19 Dec 2023 | 46
Facing stiff competition, Intel's Lisa Spelman reflects on Xeon hurdles, opportunities Interview With Emerald Rapids, Chipzilla's Xeon roadmap is back on track – now it just needs to stay there Systems18 Dec 2023 | 6
Your landlord should offer on-prem cloud, suggests immersed datacenter upstart Server tanks can do more than heat water – they can also build into resilient many-site clouds On-Prem18 Dec 2023 | 16
Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned Software cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros Systems14 Dec 2023 | 44
Intel wants to run AI on CPUs and says its 5th-gen Xeons are ones to do it Oh and it's got more cores, a bigger cache, and a simpler chiplet architecture to boot Systems14 Dec 2023 | 5
Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans Systems13 Dec 2023 | 2
AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code Interview CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years Systems08 Dec 2023 | 11
Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 12
Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2
Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts To blame? The usual suspect – AI's appetite for chips Systems04 Dec 2023 | 7
China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 3
Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns Search giant exploring more locations to squeeze watts from rocks On-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 31
Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames? On-Prem28 Nov 2023 | 15
Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump Integration woes delay Nvidia's hopes of maintaining grip on Middle Kingdom Systems27 Nov 2023 | 2
Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36
Nvidia intros the 'SuperNIC' – it's like a SmartNIC, DPU or IPU, but more super If you're doing AI but would rather not do InfiniBand, this NIC is for you Networks21 Nov 2023 | 6
Researchers weigh new benchmarks for Green500 amid shifting workload priorities SC23 Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything HPC20 Nov 2023 |
Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes Might be great for the datacenter, but not likely to be in EVs anytime soon On-Prem15 Nov 2023 | 28
Intel drops the deets on UK's Dawn AI supercomputer SC23 Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that HPC13 Nov 2023 | 6
Datacenter would spoil beautiful view ... of former industrial waste dump Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council Systems10 Nov 2023 | 53