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Why AI Performance Starts Long Before GPUs
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (584+ words) Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. AI outcomes depend on how predictably and securely data moves across data centers, clouds, and the edge. Designing for latency, resilience, and visibility is now as important as…...
GPU Lifespan in Data Centers: Physical vs. Economic
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (485+ words) Data center GPUs physically last 5+ years, but economic replacement cycles are 2-4 years due to rapid performance gains. Resale or GPU-as-a-Service models help maximize value. These questions are central to long-term capacity planning – not to mention getting ahead of the e-waste…...
The Rise of Flexible Hybrid Cooling for AI Data Centers
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (527+ words) Liquid cooling is a necessity for modern data centers, but the reality is that AI data center deployments for the foreseeable future will be hybrid. Sponsored by Schneider Electric From training massive language models to powering nonstop inference, AI is…...
Why Data Centers Rarely Reuse Cooling Water
1+ week, 5+ day ago (664+ words) While alternatives to evaporative cooling exist, most data centers don’t adopt them because the economics currently don’t justify the higher capital costs and operational complexity. In public debates about data centers, one of the loudest objections is that they drain…...
Nvidia, MediaTek Bring Custom Chips to AI Racks
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (811+ words) Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI systems to custom chips, giving hyperscalers more flexibility as they seek alternatives to off-the-shelf GPUs. Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI infrastructure to custom accelerators from hyperscalers and other AI developers, expanding its NVLink…...
QumulusAI Scales GPUs, but Powered Capacity Sets the Pace
2+ week, 3+ day ago (997+ words) QumulusAI more than tripled its deployed GPU fleet in the second quarter as it brought contracted computing capacity online and signed $169.7 million in new customer agreements. The Atlanta-based AI infrastructure provider had 3,088 GPUs deployed at the end of June, up…...
Liquid Cooling Options: RDHx, Direct-to-Chip, Immersion
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1168+ words) AI workloads push data center rack densities beyond the limits of air cooling. Three liquid cooling approaches offer different trade-offs and benefits. As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) drive up server power densities, data centers are turning to liquid cooling…...
Lancium, Nvidia Partner on Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Centers
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1040+ words) Lancium says it has 4 GW under lease and 15+ GW of powered land as Nvidia partnership advances its grid-responsive AI data center model. Lancium is partnering with Nvidia to deploy the chipmaker’s AI factory technology across a portfolio that the Texas…...
Zayo Locks Up Corning Fiber Capacity for AI Network Buildout
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1143+ words) The agreement secures a material portion of the fiber Zayo needs for its 15,000 route-mile network expansion through 2030. Telecommunications firm Zayo is reserving manufacturing capacity with Corning for a material portion of the fiber it expects to need through 2030, protecting plans…...
Micron Puts $10B Behind US AI Memory Research
3+ week, 4+ day ago (866+ words) The new Boise-based research hub will target memory, compute and packaging as AI systems push existing technologies. Micron Technology is putting $10 billion behind a new research organization aimed at a growing constraint on AI infrastructure: moving and storing enough data…...