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Eye On AI: As Big Money Rolls Into Data Centers, Startup Investment Gains

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It’s been hard to browse tech headlines this week and not read something about billions of dollars being poured into data centers. billion to develop data centers in Spain. Energy and data center company Crusoe Energy Systems announced it raised $3.4 So far this year, $1.3 So far this year, $1.3

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CIOs could improve sustainability with data center purchasing decisions — but don’t

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A huge majority of data center customers and operators worry about the environmental impact of their IT decisions, but only a tiny number put their money where their mouths are. The International Energy Agency projects that energy demand from data centers will more than double between 2025 and 2030, with AI driving the increase.

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AI market evolution: Data and infrastructure transformation through AI

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Data mobility across data centers, cloud, and edge is essential, but businesses face challenges in adopting edge strategies. This allows organizations to maximize resources and accelerate time to market. Sustainability and ESG are not off the AI table ESG is now a critical business imperative.

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AMD to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for $2B

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AMD is in the chip business, and a big part of that these days involves operating in data centers at an enormous scale. AMD announced today that it intends to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for approximately $1.9 Jain will join the data center solutions group at AMD when the deal closes.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

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growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24

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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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Pliops lands $100M for chips that accelerate analytics in data centers

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That’s why Uri Beitler launched Pliops , a startup developing what he calls “data processors” for enterprise and cloud data centers. “It became clear that today’s data needs are incompatible with yesterday’s data center architecture. Marvell has its Octeon technology.