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

Network World

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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AMD updates Instinct data center GPU line

Network World

Computex 2024 is taking place in Taiwan this week, which means lots of hardware news as the OEM and parts suppliers of the world gather to show off their latest wares. 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.

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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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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.

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9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future

Network World

On the quantum computing vendor side, 39% expect their customers to be using quantum computers inproduction in 2026, according to an Omdia survey released in October. Investors are buying up data centers to create a Pony Express quantum signal to go coast-to-coast, he says. Theyre buying up under-utilized or distressed assets.

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