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AI to go nuclear? Data center deals say it’s inevitable

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AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn.,

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Boosting a cloud-first ecosystem: Announcements at the Huawei Cloud Summit in Thailand

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As a country rapidly transforming into a digital economy hub, Thailand is taking the lead in cloud technology and the development of its digital infrastructure in the region. This is not the first collaboration with the Thai government; since 2018, Huawei has built three cloud data centers, and is the first and only cloud vendor to do so.

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IBM is using VMware Cloud Foundation to help enterprises address challenges and accelerate innovation

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The company’s innovative “cloud agnostic” strategy, supported by VMware’s increased capabilities post-acquisition, will promote growth for the clients, no matter if their workloads are on-premise or in a public cloud environment. “IBM The IBM and VMware relationship goes back two decades and includes our jointly funded innovation lab.

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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

CIO

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. These experts not only develop, but also manage and maintain all of the organization’s services.

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IBM Z mainframes get AI boost with new Telum II processor, Spyre accelerator

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The new processor, the IBM Telum II, has greater memory and cache capacity than the previous generation, and it integrates a new data processing unit (DPU) specialized for IO acceleration along with enhanced on-chip AI acceleration capabilities. Eickhoff, director, IBM Z processor development.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO

The pace of innovation is relentless. The next generation promises to deliver the same unstoppable parade of innovation. The main constituency: Any developer who will happily trade a bit of precision for a big savings in electricity. Now developers need to take this to the next level by adding even better protections.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. But its DPU architecture was difficult to develop for, reportedly, which might’ve affected its momentum.

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