Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The San Jose, California-based firm, which is developing its AI inference chip for both the generative AI and automotive industries, raised a $102 million Series C co-led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint Ventures. billion in 66 deals — per Crunchbase data — after raking in more than $2 billion in 2022. Chip funding U.S.-based

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

The early bills for generative AI experimentation are coming in, and many CIOs are finding them more hefty than they’d like — some with only themselves to blame. CIOs are also turning to OEMs such as Dell Project Helix or HPE GreenLake for AI, IDC points out. The heart of generative AI lies in GPUs.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (genAI) and blockchain are revolutionizing operations. However, concerns about their energy consumption and environmental impact have raised questions about their compatibility with ESG objectives.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, said the aim is to enable the German economy to benefit from AI in order to continue to expand its leading global position in terms of competitiveness.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DreamStudio–Generative AI are grabbing all the headlines, and rightly so. Gen AI will become a fundamental part of how enterprises manage and deliver IT services and how business users get their work done. Train overnight when data center demand is low for better performance and lower costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2023

Generative AI is impressive, but the hidden environmental costs and impact of these models are often overlooked.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Energy and data centers seem to be on everyone’s mind right now — and this week’s list bears that out. X-energy , $500M, energy: A big raise from the nuclear reactor and fuel space this week. Rockville, Maryland-based X-energy raised a Series C-1 of approximately $500 million, anchored by Amazon.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

While direct liquid cooling (DLC) is being deployed in data centers today more than ever before, would you be surprised to learn that we’ve been deploying it in our data center designs at Digital Realty since 2015? The power density requirements for AI and HPC can be 5-10 times higher than other data center use cases.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

AI helping hand While the excitement for quantum technology and computing — a level of computing much faster and superior to traditional computers that can perform many complex calculations simultaneously — has been growing for decades, the boost in funding numbers are likely attributable to tech’s latest darling.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions. This is vitally important because there are legitimate concerns that AI will outpace the capacity of the power grid. How does it work?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

However, despite the potential for heightened growth from the swift expansion of AI, supply limitations and broader geopolitical issues troubling the semiconductor industry continue to cause some concerns for the company. AI factories fueling growth For fiscal 2024, a significant growth segment was data centers, wherein revenue reached $47.5

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InfoWorld

MAY 30, 2024

Also by 2026, AI’s electricity usage could increase tenfold, according to the International Energy Agency. Clearly, AI presents businesses with a dual challenge: maximizing AI’s capabilities while minimizing its environmental impact.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2024

The London-based energy distributor and system operator is close to completing a major migration to a hybrid cloud infrastructure that will serve roughly one third of all residents and businesses in the United Kingdom. With renewable energy, sunshine and wind are sources of free fuel.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Surging demand for AI computing power will strain the supply chains for data center chips, personal computers, and smart phones, and, combined with “continued geopolitical tensions and other supply risks, could trigger the next semiconductor shortage,” a report released Tuesday by Bain & Company stated.

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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 Knowing these lessons before generative AI adoption will likely save time, improve outcomes, and reduce risks and potential costs.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rise of streaming and enterprise cloud adoption have driven an explosive surge in computing demand, giving rise to data centers around the world. Now, a new wave of demand driven by data-hungry generative AI applications is arriving, and it’s bringing with it increasing environmental pressures.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But the emergence of generative AI changes everything. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers. While generative AI is certainly the hottest trend in the cloud market, there are others that CIOs need to be aware of.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI (GenAI) felt like a watershed moment for enterprises looking to drive exponential growth with its transformative potential. As the technology subsists on data, customer trust and their confidential information are at stake—and enterprises cannot afford to overlook its pitfalls.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The new round is bigger than the $6 billion round Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , officially announced in May, which up to this point was the largest round raised this year. Pacific Fusion , $900M, energy: Another huge AI-related round. Well, Crusoe has now turned its energy to AI — literally.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Generative AI and advanced automation Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, will be a central focus at GITEX 2024. Green technologies, such as energy-efficient data centers, renewable energy solutions, and smart city infrastructure, will be showcased as critical components for achieving environmental goals.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. More recently, the company launched Carbon Pathfinder, an AI-driven sustainability software planning tool that is sold as SaaS or a suite with professional services. “No Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Last month, AI-related startups raised $12.2 billion in funding — per Crunchbase data — or 38% of total monthly venture funding globally. billion led by Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , raising a $6 billion Series B round at a $24 billion valuation. Valuation Illustration: Dom Guzman

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 27, 2024

With the explosion of generative AI, both compute power availability and memory capacity are becoming more and more crunched — and marriage between compute and memory causes both to increase simultaneously. Shares have since then remained well above their IPO price. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

“This change, available beginning with the next-generation IBM Z in the first half of 2025, will allow clients to maintain the same I/O configuration in a smaller footprint, to reduce data center floorspace as they upgrade and modernize their infrastructure,” Becht and Eickhoff wrote in a blog.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In their field, AI and edge computing are becoming necessary to realize the next generation of highly intelligent industrial digital operations. It’s foundational for a new, networked, and dynamic energy ecosystem, he says. Getting edge AI right Excitement to implement AI on the edge should be tempered with cautious optimism.

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

s fastest AI supercomputer: Dawn Phase 1. s AI and simulation compute capacity and supports some of the largest-ever computing workloads for scientific, industrial, and academic research applications. Dawn considerably strengthens the scientific and AI compute capability available in the U.K.,

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Now, we are witnessing the rise of generative AI in the 2020s, which emphasizes language mastery. At Digital Realty, we’ve been tracking the evolution of AI since before our Investor Day in 2017 , where we identified AI as a primary driver of next-generation data center requirements.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But just as AIOps is optimizing network management, networks enable and create a platform for generative AI to optimize business operations. Generative AI is presenting new challenges because its vast datasets require immense computing power and storage. How does NTT DATA make it happen?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The challenge is that the technology footprint — and our understanding of potentials and pitfalls — is still maturing, for instance with generative AI. Businesses should aim to balance efficiency gains with cost savings, Alcock says, while analyzing the energy efficiency and environmental impact of their operations. “As

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 29, 2024

With the explosion of generative AI, both compute power availability and memory capacity are becoming more and more crunched — and marriage between compute and memory causes both to increase simultaneously. China-based Huakong Power , a provider of energy-saving and intelligent-control services, raised more than $692 million.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

From chatbots and virtual assistants to even advanced image and text generation, Generative AI (genAI) has captured people’s imaginations and made many things once deemed impossible, possible. The reality is that genAI was not built overnight.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 2, 2024

Pine Gate Renewables , $650M, energy: Pine Gate Renewables locked up a $650 million investment from Generate Capital , the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan and HESTA. Rivos , $250M, semiconductor: Semiconductor startups are seeing big money, in part thanks to the explosion in generative AI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By embracing sustainable architecture practices and aligning technological advancements with sustainability objectives, organizations can harness AI’s transformative potential while safeguarding the planet while meeting regulatory requirements. Training a single AI model emits as much as five average cars over their lifetimes.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2023

The artwork I received was not only visually stunning but also showed how AI is capable of bringing new ideas to life. I was experiencing first-hand, as a creator, the transformative nature of generative AI with Midjourney, chatGPT, and other tools. Midjourney AI is quickly becoming ubiquitous now.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

One question CIOs need to consider today is whether code-generating AIs in software development are contributing to code-level technical debt. Alternatively, there’s the opportunity to use code copilots or gen AI low-code capabilities to simplify and reduce code.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

We closed three of our own data centers and went entirely to the cloud with several providers, and we also assembled a new data strategy to completely restructure the company, from security and finance, to hospitality and a new website. Are you already working with generative AI?

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The company has transformed its IT infrastructure by creating the region’s first 100% renewable energy-powered industrial data centers. These centers support AI and automation solutions while reducing IT energy consumption by 50%. Everyone is going to say AI. (15:15) Everyone is going to say AI. (15:15)

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