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Are data centers obsolete in the age of AI? Not on our watch…

CIO

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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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler

TechCrunch

That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal.

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DDN Nabs $300M From Blackstone As AI Keeps Data Storage Hot

Crunchbase News

Big money Of course this is far from the only play the Blackstone Group has made in the data sector. 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.

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LyteLoop raises $40 million to launch satellites that use light to store data

TechCrunch

“Everybody on every single data center has the same same possible maximum level of data security,” he said. Anything that can be applied on Earth, we can apply in our data center, but for example, the fact that we’re storing data on photons, we could put in quantum encryption, which others can’t.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO

We serve companies in numerous industries, including those in software and IT services, manufacturing, finance, insurance, retail, health care, transportation, media and Internet, and telecommunications,” says Fuhrman. We also took the opportunity to learn what he sees as the next big transformative trends in cloud computing. “We

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AI, ML, and the IoT will destroy the data center and the cloud (just not in the way you think)

O'Reilly Media - Data

DD Dasgupta explores the edge-cloud continuum, explaining how the roles of data centers and cloud infrastructure are redefined through the mainstream adoption of AI, ML, and IoT technologies. Continue reading AI, ML, and the IoT will destroy the data center and the cloud (just not in the way you think).

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Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features

TechCrunch

Ably has built a global network of data centers so that it can route messages as efficiently as possible. If a data center goes down, your realtime features still operate as usual. There are also some big customers in the social media space but Ably can’t disclose the names of all its customers.