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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 …
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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.
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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 facilities are central sites that ...
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.
US data center power consumption to double by 2030 - DCD
Jan 15, 2024 · The report also highlights low levels of available space in data center hotspots across North America, with low single-digit availability in several key markets.. Data centers switch on to AI. The increasingly sophisticated AI services on offer from the hyperscale public cloud providers mean power requirements in data centers are likely to rocket in the coming years, the report’s authors say.
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Digital infrastructure is a trillion-dollar industry, and data centers are the central cog to a data system that keeps the world turning. So, isn’t it about time that we demystify the data center and help more people understand the evolution of one of the most exciting infrastructure industries of the 21st Century?
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.