Remove 2027 Remove Data Center Remove Hardware
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Lumen Orbit wants to deploy data centers in space

Network World

Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). But Nvidia and Y Combinator-backed Lumen Orbit has a novel, out-of-this-world idea: Launching data centers into space.

article thumbnail

9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future

Network World

According to Gartner, companies should have started on their crypto agility police by the of 2024, start implementing it in 2024 and 2025, and have it in production by the end of 2027. Investors are buying up data centers to create a Pony Express quantum signal to go coast-to-coast, he says.

Research 505
article thumbnail

AI to go nuclear? Data center deals say it’s inevitable

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn.,

article thumbnail

What is AI networking? How it automates your infrastructure (but faces challenges)

Network World

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 90% of enterprises will use AI to automate day 2 operations, up from just 10% in 2023. AI networking is specific to the network itself, covering domains including multi-cloud software, wired and wireless LAN, data center switching, SD-WAN and managed network services (MNS).

Network 432
article thumbnail

What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. The Linux Foundation focuses on the software element of SONiC, while continuing to partner with the Open Compute Project for hardware developments and evolving specifications. What is SONiC?