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Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

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Massive global demand for AI technology is causing data centers to increase spending on servers, power, and cooling infrastructure. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1 His projections account for recent advances in AI and data center efficiency, he says. Much of this growth is due to AI.

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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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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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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion

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In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Meanwhile, Oklo, a nuclear fission startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, is progressing toward its first SMR, aiming for completion by 2027. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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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.

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SAP CEO Christian Klein predicts manual data entry will disappear from SAP by 2027

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He added that to make AI more secure, only authorized people can access the data and only authorized AI use cases can use it.

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

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We therefore revised our projections, moving up the anticipated crossover point where Ethernet surpasses InfiniBand to 2027. Future developments: co-packaged optics Optics are also part of the trend toward more efficient data center networking, according to the roadmap.

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