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Dec 20, 2024 · DatacenterDynamics is the world's largest data center publication. We publish news, magazine features, and podcasts about the hyperscale & cloud, colocation & wholesale, artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, Edge computing, investment and REITs, data center companies, and more.
An introduction to liquid cooling in the data center - DCD
Mar 28, 2023 · Enterprise-Grade Liquid Cooling Solutions. When analyzing liquid cooling options for enterprise-grade IT hardware there are essentially two main categories of liquid cooling – Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling (sometimes called conductive or cold plate liquid cooling) and immersive liquid cooling.
Sungard completes sell-off of US assets, will wind down four …
Nov 4, 2022 · Managed service provider 11:11 has acquired Sungard AS’ North American Recovery Services (RS) business, as well as its North American Cloud and Managed Services (CMS) business and Consulting business. 11:11 will operate essentially all of Sungard AS’ IT systems and provide services back to 365 and Sungard AS, and operate four data centers …
Biggest data center acquisitions: 13 billion-dollar data center deals
Sep 4, 2024 · “With the news of these pending acquisitions, the level of data center M&A activity is pushing towards new heights. As at mid-November, the total number of deals closed so far this year has already far surpassed the record number closed last year,” Synergy Research said in the wake of the CoreSite/CyrusOne deals in 2021. “Hyperscale operators continue to aggressively …
xAI’s Memphis Supercluster has gone live, with up to 100,000 …
Jul 23, 2024 · Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee has gone live. Dubbed the Memphis Supercluster by Musk in a post on X/Twitter, he said the system went live at ~4:20am* local time on July 22 and is using a single RDMA (remote direct memory access) fabric to connect up to 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs.
Global data center electricity use to double by 2026 - IEA report
Jan 26, 2024 · AI and cryptocurrency workloads are driving up demand. Data center electricity usage is set to double by 2026 according to a new report, which blames the rise of power-intensive workloads such as AI and cryptocurrency mining for this growing demand.
What is a hyperscale data center? - DCD
Sep 13, 2022 · If you’re unsure what a data center is, read this, and then read on. Born to meet increased demand for cloud services - as fewer and fewer companies run their own IT systems, preferring to manage them remotely or outsource operations entirely - and responding to the growth of Internet companies, 5G, AI and Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployments, hyperscale …
Microsoft to double new data center capacity this year - report
Apr 18, 2024 · Microsoft is reportedly ramping up its investment in data centers and now has more than 5GW of capacity at its disposal. Details of the tech giant’s spending on digital infrastructure were revealed in leaked documents seen by Business Insider.
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Frontier remains world's most powerful supercomputer on Top500 …
Nov 14, 2023 · While Frontier remains the only recognized Exascale system, several others are underway. In the US, Aurora is set to exceed Frontier, and a two exaflop system, El Capitan, is being installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The UK is developing an Exascale supercomputer which will be housed at the University of Edinburgh, with the first phase of …