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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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

At ADIPEC 2024 in Abu Dhabi, ADNOC, Masdar, and Microsoft signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) to advance artificial intelligence and low-carbon initiatives aimed at reshaping the energy landscape. It’s a journey that requires joint efforts across technology, energy, science, and policy to accelerate progress.”

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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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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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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Via a series of interviews and panels at Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit 2022, a snapshot of the challenges, triumphs, and next steps shows that IT and business leaders are focused as never before on data center sustainability. At its annual Innovation Summit in Las Vegas, NV.,

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JUNE 24, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) have emerged as key areas of opportunity for innovation and business transformation. The power density requirements for AI and HPC can be 5-10 times higher than other data center use cases. Traditional workloads tend to be in the range of 5-8 kW per rack.

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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 23, 2023

To get the compute resources they need while also optimizing energy efficiency, some enterprises—and the service providers they partner with—look to position data centers in colder environments, far away from major population centers.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. Germany has always been at the forefront of technological and innovative change, Smith said, and this is also evident in terms of AI when he analyses the data available to Microsoft.

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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

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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We were first in the industry to set a 100% renewable energy goal in 2015 and deploy renewable energy buying concepts​ like Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs), which contribute directly to greening the grid. Depending on location and climate conditions, Equinix’s new data centers are designed to achieve under 1.20

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

From climate modelling to energy management, optimizing renewable energy and adapting to extreme weather events, AI is deploying its power to improve our fight against climate change. Data centers and cloud solutions have to be manufactured with low-carbon materials. It’s our responsibility to provide green data centers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

EdgeQ is founded by Vinay Ravuri, an ex-Qualcomm exec who worked on mobile and data center projects at the behemoth chipmaker during the attempted corporate takeover by Broadcom back in 2018. AME Cloud Ventures also participated in the round, as did an undisclosed strategic customer. What’s exciting here this early is the team.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Andris Gailitis, the CEO of European Data Center Operator DEAC and Data Logistics Center ( DLC ), is quick to point out that the companies’ commitment to sustainability is heartfelt and genuine. It reduces energy consumption by more than 80%. We recently connected with A.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

By understanding their options and leveraging GPU-as-a-service, CIOs can optimize genAI hardware costs and maintain processing power for innovation.” John Marcante, US CIO in Residence at Deloitte and former Global CIO at Vanguard, sees innovation in the marketplace also coming to CIOs’ aid. The heart of generative AI lies in GPUs.

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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. This is not being done alone.

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s expected to drive discoveries and advancements across a wide range of compute-intensive research areas—from bioscience to fusion energy and climate modeling. “The At November’s AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, UK Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan announced the formation of the AI Research Resource (AIRR).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. According to Internet Data Center (IDC) , global data is projected to increase to 175 zettabytes in 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018.

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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. Learn more.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Data centers consumed 220-320 TWh (trillion watts per hour) in 2021, roughly 7% of what the entire US consumes annually. GPT-3 training used energy equivalent to 120 average U S households’ yearly consumption and generated equivalent to the yearly emissions of 120 US cars. Is your IT sustainable? since 2007.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a leading provider of the EHR, Epic Systems (Epic) supports a growing number of hospital systems and integrated health networks striving for innovative delivery of mission-critical systems. Greater agility to embrace innovation and disruption and respond quickly to business opportunities. Multi Cloud.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Many have even spun up renewable energy arms. Innovation underpins corporate sustainability efforts. Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9% of global emissions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The raise is led by urban sustainability-focused fund 2150 with participation from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund , Tencent, AMAVI, Rise PropTech Fund, Extantia and Freigeist. Construction is of course an extremely dirty business. 2150 launches with $240M fund to reduce the carbon footprint of the world’s growing cities.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Computational requirements, such as the type of GenAI models, number of users, and data storage capacity, will affect this choice. Look for a holistic, end-to-end approach that will allow enterprises to easily adopt and deploy GenAI, from the endpoint to the data center, by building a powerful data operation.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

No customer data will be used to train external foundational AI models, said Bharat Sandhu, the company’s SVP for AI and application development platform. In July, SAP CEO Christian Klein told analysts that SAP’s newest innovations will only be delivered in the public cloud , or in private clouds via its Rise with SAP all-in-one offering.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Hosted in Dubai from October 14-18, GITEX will showcase cutting-edge innovations and provide a platform for global experts to discuss the latest advancements in technology. Web3 and blockchain innovation Web3 technologies, including blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital identity systems, will be key topics.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In May of 2021 VMware unveiled VMware Zero Carbon Committed , an initiative to encourage partners to power their data centers with renewable energy sources by 2030. director of sustainability innovation at VMware. in investment will flow into clean energy this year. In the U.S., Business voice matters.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

” To summarize the scale of efforts needed, Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab , Heliogen and Energy Vault , said , “We need thousands of shots on goal to do it, and entrepreneurship is the answer.” Already attractive to the power-hungry crypto-mining industry, it could also become the carbon-capture center of the world.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

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. Digital Realty Source: Digital Realty Investor Day presentation, Slide 18, 2017 Why does AI require an AI-ready data center platform?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Balancing and prioritizing these areas requires a flexible approach to product development, platform modernization, innovative customer-facing capabilities, and client-centric tech innovations that we’re driving through strategic industry partnerships,” Durvasula says.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

Innovating to solve the world’s biggest problems With AI, no industry is left behind. This improves speed to innovate, saving significant amounts of time and cost. If done right, partnerships like the one between Dell and NVIDIA can supercharge innovation across industries, accelerating AI innovation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Verma is the director of Princeton’s Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education while Gopalakrishnan was (until recently) an IBM fellow, having worked at the tech giant for nearly 18 years. “EnCharge products provide orders-of-magnitude gains in energy efficiency and performance,” Verma said.

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CIO

MAY 3, 2023

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 are qualities that serve us well in our dedicated work to provide high-quality and innovative services to our customers.”

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