Ooda Loop

JANUARY 6, 2025

Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads, the company said in a Friday blog post. Over half of the expected AI infrastructure spending will take place in the U.S., Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith wrote.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Thats not all The Anthropic news comes just after OpenAI made waves of its own, as the White House announced a new partnership between the ChatGPT developer, SoftBank and Oracle to help build out $100 billion to $500 billion in AI datacenters and infrastructure. The new undertaking has been dubbed the Stargate Project.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Earlier this week, life sciences venture firm Dimension Capital announced it had raised a new $500 million second fund just two years after its first to hunt for startups that are using artificial intelligence to develop new medicines. billion through early December, per Crunchbase data.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. There are many challenges in managing a traditional data center, starting with the refresh cycle.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Artificial intelligence is an early stage technology and the hype around it is palpable, but IT leaders need to take many challenges into consideration before making major commitments for their enterprises. Analysts at this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo spent tons of time talking about the impact of AI on IT systems and teams.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Post-training is a set of processes and techniques for refining and optimizing a machine learning model after its initial training on a dataset. It is intended to improve a models performance and efficiency and sometimes includes fine-tuning a model on a smaller, more specific dataset.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Walds picks for especially strong geographic markets include Seattle; the San Francisco Bay Area; greater New York metro; Charlotte, NC; Austin, Texas; Denver; Boston; and greater Washington DC; as well as burgeoning areas of development for new data centers accommodating AI development investments such as Scottsdale, Ariz.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Weve evaluated all the major open source large language models and have found that Mistral is the best for our use case once its up-trained, he says. Another consideration is the size of the LLM, which could impact inference time. For example, he says, Metas Llama is very large, which impacts inference time.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 9, 2025

billion to develop data centers in Spain. In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Last year it was reported the worlds largest asset manager plans to invest $8.2

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

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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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

billion to develop data centers in Spain. In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Last year it was reported the worlds largest asset manager plans to invest $8.2

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

By Katerina Stroponiati The artificial intelligence landscape is shifting beneath our feet, and 2025 will bring fundamental changes to how enterprises deploy and optimize AI. Big Tech’s GPU obsession is like gold rush fever, but the winners will be those who learn how to mine computing power efficiently.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC.

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. Not only are enterprises and hyperscalers building or expanding their facilities to accommodate increasing interest in artificial intelligence, but that same AI is gobbling power, and thus creating heat — a lot of it. And that means cooling costs are also growing.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has upped the ante across all tech arenas, including one of the most traditional ones: data centers. Modern data centers are running hotter than ever – not just to manage ever-increasing processing demands, but also rising temperatures as the result of AI workloads, which sees no end in sight.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably high. Infrastructure-intensive or not, generative AI is on the march. IDC research finds roughly half of worldwide genAI expenditures in 2024 will go toward digital infrastructure.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 23, 2025

It was reported MGX a $100 billion artificial intelligence-focused investment vehicle founded by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 plans to contribute about $7 billion to the new Stargate Project. MGX took part in the largest round of 2024 Databricks $10 billion raise at a $62 billion valuation.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

CIOs need to revamp their infrastructure not only to render a tremendous amount of data through a new set of interfaces, but also to handle all the new data produced by gen AI in patterns never seen before. The AI revolution is forcing a modernization of the data center across all industries, says Hardy.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Part of the problem is that data-intensive workloads require substantial resources, and that adding the necessary compute and storage infrastructure is often expensive. For companies moving to the cloud specifically, IDG reports that they plan to devote $78 million toward infrastructure this year. Image Credits: Pliops.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In the early 2000s, most business-critical software was hosted on privately run data centers. DevOps fueled this shift to the cloud, as it gave decision-makers a sense of control over business-critical applications hosted outside their own data centers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform. Marsh McLennan created an AI Academy for training all employees.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (genAI) and blockchain are revolutionizing operations. CIOs manage IT infrastructure and foster cross-functional collaboration, driving alignment between technological innovation and sustainability goals.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) will be at the core of many groundbreaking AI solutions for enterprise organizations. Here are just a few examples of the benefits of using LLMs in the enterprise for both internal and external use cases: Optimize Costs. Train new adapters for an LLM.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

AI Little Language Models is an educational program that teaches young children about probability, artificial intelligence, and related topics. It’s fun and playful and can enable children to build simple models of their own. Mistral has released two new models, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s why SaaS giant Salesforce, in migrating its entire data center from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has turned to generative AI — not only to help with the migration but to drive the real-time automation of this new infrastructure. This is going to change how infrastructure is managed.”

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Table of Contents Breakout year for AI Q4 push Large values, billion-dollar rounds US gained, Silicon Valley fired up Late-stage Q4 boom Early stage flat Seed settled Liquidity hold-up Methodology Glossary of funding terms Related reading Breakout year for AI One thing was clear: 2024 was the breakout year for funding to AI companies.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On top of that, Gen AI, and the large language models (LLMs) that power it, are super-computing workloads that devour electricity.Estimates vary, but Dr. Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2024

That quote aptly describes what Dell Technologies and Intel are doing to help our enterprise customers quickly, effectively, and securely deploy generative AI and large language models (LLMs).Many That makes it impractical to train an LLM from scratch. One workaround is to build a system with multiple LLMs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLellan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform. Marsh McLellan created an AI Academy for training all employees.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

SAP and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership today with an eye to deliver the accelerated computing that customers need in order to adopt large language models (LLMs) and generative AI at scale. Generative code really has to come from knowing the language and being able to create it to give a natural prompt.”

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As AI technology advances, it’s putting ever-increasing strain on existing data centers and associated power sources. To keep up, we’ll need to build a lot more infrastructure. Participants include Microsoft , Blackrock , Global Infrastructure Partners and United Arab Emirates AI-focused investment fund MGX.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming more costly to maintain. “We’re differentiated from others in that we automate and manage the full stack [of infrastructure], including switches, servers, storage and networking as well as cloud enablement.”

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

It may seem like artificial intelligence (AI) became a media buzzword overnight, but this disruptive technology has been at the forefront of our agenda for several years at Digital Realty. Here’s what we’ve learned is necessary to successfully navigate the inevitable disruption and come out ahead by harnessing AI’s potential.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Chinese competitor Huawei also has invested $400 million in cloud infrastructure for its services in Saudi Arabia. If I go back three years, there was limited cloud adoption in Arab states,” he said.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

The Data and Cloud Computing Center is the first center for analyzing and processing big data and artificial intelligence in Egypt and North Africa, saving time, effort and money, thus enhancing new investment opportunities.

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