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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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said. .

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 25, 2024

But the brilliant gleam of that potential is preventing us from clearly seeing a huge concern — we may not have enough electricity to power the growing number of AI-focused data centers. But renewable energy isn’t a great fit for data centers, which need a consistent power source to stay running.

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

For good business reasons, more than up to 50% of applications and data remain on-premises in data centers, colocations, and edge locations, according to 451 Research. This is due to issues like data gravity, latency, application dependency, and regulatory compliance. Adopting the right partnership.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive. DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7 appeared first on DevOps.com. The post Recession!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As companies increasingly move to take advantage of machine learning to run their business more efficiently, the fact is that it takes an abundance of energy to build, test and run models in production. Today, the company announced a zero emissions AI cloud solution in conjunction with Finnish cloud infrastructure partner atNorth.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And the importance of energy efficiency for enterprise IT cannot be overstated. With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS), 68% of global IT leaders said that the environmental impact of their IT equipment and infrastructure is something they measure and actively try to limit. To make the most of these applications, enterprises need distributed digital infrastructure in locations throughout the world.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. All the logic is still in Java hosted on Amazon’s infrastructure.”

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

The challenge for IT leaders is to enable these high-density workloads with the right IT infrastructure, and increasingly the community is discussing advanced cooling technologies like liquid cooling. The power density requirements for AI and HPC can be 5-10 times higher than other data center use cases.

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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. We need a strong digital infrastructure and the right skills. In addition, new infrastructure is planned in the Rhenish mining district in North Rhine-Westphalia. Microsoft will invest €3.2

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Salesforce’s AI Research team has also developed methods such as maximum parallelism, he adds, which split up compute-intensive tasks efficiently to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

The report, based on an annual survey of IT leaders, also found that 90% of CIOs prioritize partners and vendors based on their sustainability credentials — a huge change since the 2023 report , when 49% of CIOs looked at carbon output, sustainability, and energy efficiency when choosing new suppliers.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, concerns about their energy consumption and environmental impact have raised questions about their compatibility with ESG objectives. CIOs manage IT infrastructure and foster cross-functional collaboration, driving alignment between technological innovation and sustainability goals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. Our focus as a platform is to discover IT infrastructure, the breadth and depth of discovery going from mainframe to cloud and everything in between.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. Mabrucco first explained that AI will put exponentially higher demands on networks to move large data sets. How does it work?

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals. This inaction means a lot of money and energy is being wasted unnecessarily. Deep visibility.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2023

The supercomputers that power HPC, however, require more and more energy to operate. Dollars are moving to purchasing new energy-efficient hardware or devoting resources to optimization efforts or changing where HPC workloads are run. Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Intel are supporting these organizational efforts.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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. Answering 100 million+ generative AI questions a day can burn 1 Gigawatt-hour of electricity, which is roughly the daily energy use of 33,000 US households.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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CIO

JUNE 27, 2023

This was commented on by Zhang Guobin, Chief Scientist of Huawei IT Product Line, who said, “Whether for multi-cloud, single-cloud or on-premises environments, users want easy, standard access to their data, making data orchestration across multiple platforms a necessity.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Dairyland Power Cooperative, a Wisconsin-based electricity supply company, for example, has turned to gen AI to improve optimization and performance of infrastructure in the field. “AI AI makes edge computing more relevant to CIOs because it helps us reduce delays in processing data. Another sector is manufacturing.

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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. For others, such as UK Power Networks, a more methodical and protracted journey has proved to be the best approach.

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OTS Solutions

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The cloud service provider (CSP) charges a business for cloud computing space as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for networking, servers, and storage. By sharing, this means an enterprise’s cloud usage is on a shared server; however, policies are in place to help protect its data.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But the requirements, difficult in areas with an already mature sustainable energy infrastructure in place, were overwhelming in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Deploying on a sustainable digital infrastructure foundation that is more distributed, flexible, and interconnected across diverse ecosystems than ever before, is now fundamental for organizations to achieve their climate targets. Depending on location and climate conditions, Equinix’s new data centers are designed to achieve under 1.20

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

AI factories fueling growth For fiscal 2024, a significant growth segment was data centers, wherein revenue reached $47.5 The fourth quarter saw a record data center revenue of $18.4 If you ever look in the back of the data center, the systems and the cabling system are mind-boggling. It weighs 70 pounds.

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CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“When Involta was founded in 2007, sustainability wasn’t a top-of-mind issue for the industry, but our founders understood its importance and continually made everyday improvements that promoted energy efficiency and reduced our carbon emissions,” says Kremer. Data centers today use nearly 1% of electricity and create.3%

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The benefits of hybrid multicloud in healthcare When it comes to cloud adoption, the healthcare industry has been slow to relinquish the traditional on-premises data center due to strict regulatory and security requirements and concerns around interoperability and data integration.

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DevOps.com

MAY 14, 2024

The environmental impact of data centers is becoming increasingly critical. These facilities, essential to our digital infrastructure, consume vast amounts of energy and contribute significantly to carbon emissions. Recognizing the urgency of this issue, Platform.sh

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2016

One of the perennial problems of data centers is monitoring server utilization to ensure right-sizing of resources. Nlyte's Predict tool can help with capacity planning, using capacity projections to predict future resource needs based on historical data, as well as planned changes to applications and infrastructure.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2023

With four high-performance data centers, including facilities in Cologne, Dusseldorf and two in Hamburg, plusserver is well known for its ability to address the most demanding data sovereignty needs in Germany and throughout Europe – a fact underscored earlier this year when it earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By 2050, an estimated 68% of the global population will reside in urban environments, placing immense strain on existing infrastructure and resource allocation. Advanced analytics platforms, leveraging machine learning (ML) algorithms and AI, extract meaningful insights from this data. Popular examples include NB-IoT and LoRaWAN.

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