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Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers

Network World

Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. Traditionally in Microsoft data centers, water has been evaporated on-site to reduce the power demand of the cooling systems.

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Lightmatter launches photonic chips to eliminate GPU idle time in AI data centers

Network World

Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. Todays AI chips often sit idle waiting for data to arrive, wasting computing resources and slowing down results. Lightmatter, valued at $4.4

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Data centers go nuclear for power-hungry AI workloads

Network World

Data center power constraints and burgeoning AI workloads have companies scrambling to find new sources of electricity. That’s why, in an effort to find new energy sources—and in the face of the push to make it clean energy—data center owners are turning to nuclear power. times the 2023 level. times the 2023 level.

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Gartner: 13 AI insights for enterprise IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is an early stage technology and the hype around it is palpable, but IT leaders need to take many challenges into consideration before making major commitments for their enterprises. Analysts at this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo spent tons of time talking about the impact of AI on IT systems and teams.

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HPE and Danfoss put excess data center heat to use

CIO Business Intelligence

Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. Not only are enterprises and hyperscalers building or expanding their facilities to accommodate increasing interest in artificial intelligence, but that same AI is gobbling power, and thus creating heat — a lot of it. And that means cooling costs are also growing.

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AI turns liquid cooling into a data center must-have solution

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has upped the ante across all tech arenas, including one of the most traditional ones: data centers. Modern data centers are running hotter than ever – not just to manage ever-increasing processing demands, but also rising temperatures as the result of AI workloads, which sees no end in sight.