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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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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. For enterprises investing heavily in AI infrastructure, this development addresses a growing challenge. Lightmatter, valued at $4.4

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

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At next months Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), many of the technologies that are driving current and future Ethernet development will be on full display by the Ethernet Alliance, which is set to unveil its tenth anniversary Ethernet roadmap. What are the priorities for the development of these interconnects?

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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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Equinix to end its bare-metal service

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Hosting and colocation giant Equinix is sunsetting its bare-metal infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering by June 2026. We plan to use this tech stack internally, so while we wont be developing new features for Metal, we will ensure the continued performance, security, and stability of the Metal product until it is sunset.

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Data centers go nuclear for power-hungry AI workloads

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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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Energy shortages threaten to restrict 40% of AI data centers by 2027

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The rapid expansion of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads could see 40% of data centers constrained by power shortages by 2027, according to Gartner. The surge is attributed to the increased deployment of large-scale language models (LLMs) and complex algorithms that require massive data processing capabilities.