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Equinix to cut 3% of staff amidst the greatest demand for data center infrastructure ever

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Even as demand for data infrastructure surges to an all-time high, Equinix is planning to lay off 3% of its workforce, suggesting a growing skills mismatch in the industry. According to Goldman Sachs , data center demand in the US alone is projected to nearly triple by 2030, driving more than $1 trillion in investment.

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Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers

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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

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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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AI driving a 165% rise in data center power demand by 2030

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On the demand side for data centers, large hyperscale cloud providers and other corporations are building increasingly bigger large language models (LLMs) that must be trained on massive compute clusters. Still, several questions remain about DeepSeeks training, infrastructure, and ability to scale, Schneider stated.

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Nvidia’s silicon photonics switches bring better power efficiency to AI data centers

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In large-scale AI data centers with thousands of switches, this equates to hundreds of thousands or even millions of transceivers. The former is built for AI data centers that use Ethernet, while providing significantly more bandwidth than traditional Ethernet setups. The Ethernet switches are coming to market in 2026.

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Ethernet roadmap: AI drives high-speed, efficient Ethernet networks

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While the IEEE P802.3dj project is working toward defining 200G per lane for Ethernet by late 2026, the industry is (loudly) asking for 400G per lane yesterday, if not sooner, Jones wrote in a recent Ethernet Alliance blog. New interconnect solutions, such as Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), On-Board Optics (OBO, and Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO).

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AMD updates Instinct data center GPU line

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CDNA 3 is based on the gaming graphics card RDNA architecture but is expressly designed for use in data center applications like generative AI and high-performance computing. And in 2026, the AMD Instinct MI400 series will arrive, based on the AMD CDNA “Next” architecture.