Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a blog post, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to source nuclear energy, aiming to bring the first SMR online by 2030, with more reactors planned by 2035. In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Data centers could consume upwards of 9% of US electricity generation by 2030, more than double the amount currently used, although the role AI contributing to the demand, a new study has found. While AI applications are estimated to use only 10%-20% of data center electricity today, that percentage is growing rapidly.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The program, known as Project Transcendence, marks a significant push by the Kingdom to develop a robust AI ecosystem that can rival leading tech hubs, including neighbouring United Arab Emirates and other global technology centers. In recent years, the Kingdom has set up research centers, ministries, and educational programs focused on AI.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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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Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

A test involving hydrogen fuel cells that is currently taking place in Dublin, Ireland at an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center proves progress is occurring in this space, but it is certainly not a “super meaningful step forward,” according to an analyst with Dell’Oro Group.

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Network World

JANUARY 7, 2025

AI applications and ML workloads account for nearly 20% of data center electricity consumption today, according to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and data centers are projected to represent up to 9.1% electricity generation annually by 2030. of total U.S.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Illustration of the Microsoft’s closed-loop system for future data centers that will recycle water for cooling its computing operations. Microsoft Image) Microsoft revealed details of new approach to cooling data centers that won’t lose water to evaporation. But that number used to be even higher.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

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.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

The European Union will take a big step toward regulating energy and water use by data centers in September, when organizations operating data centers in EU nations will be required to file reports detailing water and energy consumption, as well as steps they are taking to reduce it. between 2020 and 2030.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Amidst this progress, however, the lack of data center access raises a big challenge to Africas connectivity, as most countries in Africa have a national data center. But to build this data residency, increased data center and digital infrastructure investment is needed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Así, con el propósito de hacer un uso sostenible de estos data center, el análisis del ciclo de vida (ACV) se ha perfilado como una herramienta táctica y crucial para las compañías del sector. Un volumen comparable al consumo anual de electricidad de 1.700 a 2.800 hogares europeos.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This involves the prosaic but essential activities of good information management: data cleaning, deduplicating, validating, structuring, and checking ownership. However, this will depend on the speed at which new AI-ready data centers are built relative to demand.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

For data center capacity to spread to more regions of Africa, there will need to be a major effort to create structure for overland routes. This initiative aims to digitally connect every individual, business, and government in Africa by 2030. billion inhabitants making up 15% of the global population.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Proof of this is the KSA Cloud First Policy, announced in October 2020 by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and InformationTechnologies, after the launch of a cloud data center in the city of Jeddah, by Oracle. The importance of education in supporting the success of Saudi Vision 2030 cannot be overstated.

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Network World

AUGUST 26, 2024

A recommendation by a US Department of Energy (DoE) working group to create an AI test bed that will be mandated with finding ways to create data centers that are more energy efficient than they are today represents a good step forward, but much needs to be done, an analyst said today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Indeed, the kingdom is positioning itself as a global leader in digital technologies ahead of its hosting of the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh.

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Network World

JANUARY 29, 2025

Verizon is building its AI ecosystem by repurposing its existing infrastructure assets in its intelligent and programmable network, which consists of fiber, edge networking, and data center assets, along with its metro and long-haul fiber, ILEC and Fios footprint, its metro network build-out, lit and dark fiber services, and 5G network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

In the energy and utilities sector, sustainability goals, such as Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 and UAEs Net Zero 2050, will drive investment in smart grids, renewable energy, and AI-driven energy efficiency solutions. Fintech hubs like Dubai and Riyadh will continue attracting global and regional players.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

According to the firm, our current era, that of noisy intermediate-scale quantum will last until 2030. Broad quantum advantage where quantum computers can be used to solve problems that traditional computers cant handle will last from approximately 2030 to 2040, according to the Boston Computing Group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

billion (Rs 36,300 crore) to scale it till the end of 2030. We welcome AWS’s commitment to invest approximately INR 36,300 crores in the AWS Region in Hyderabad, which strengthens Telangana’s position as a progressive data center hub in India,” K. billion to India’s gross domestic product by 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

Businesses increasingly rely on powerful computing systems housed in data centers for their workloads. As the data center market expands, at an estimated growth rate of 10.5% from 2024 to 2030 1 , energy consumption has become a major concern. That’s a lot of energy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Big tech commitments are ‘promising,’ but may not be enough There are many statistics floating around about AI and data center energy use, further stoking fears across enterprises, regulatory bodies, and everywhere in between. It will be the platform that drives a new generation of energy efficient data centers,” said Pette.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

ABI Research predicts that by 2030, more than 90% of enterprises will consume at least 25% of their network services via NaaS. Enterprises have been slow to adopt NaaS for a number of reasons, including confusion about exactly what NaaS is, lack of a solid business case, and questions around security, visibility and privacy. What is NaaS?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

An Amazon data center in Oregon. This year Amazon, Microsoft and Google have all announced plans for purchasing nuclear energy to fuel their data center operations, which are growing rapidly as artificial intelligence increases computational demands. Inside an Amazon data center in Ohio. Virginia is a U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

NIST recently released its official post-quantum cryptography (PQC) timeline report that establishes 2030 as the target for PQC migration completion. While no one knows exactly when a quantum computer capable of breaking current standards such as RSA or ECC may exist, most experts believe its only a matter of time , Shorter says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We also recognize the importance of reducing power consumption and enhancing our sustainability leadership that stems from continued energy efficiency improvements at our data centers. Since 2011, Equinix has invested more than US$158 million in energy efficiency upgrades to reduce energy consumption within our data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

To get the compute resources they need while also optimizing energy efficiency, some enterprises—and the service providers they partner with—look to position data centers in colder environments, far away from major population centers. Like all other Equinix data centers in Singapore, SG5 has 100% renewable energy coverage.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2020

Power Innovations built a 250-kilowatt fuel cell system to help Microsoft explore the potential of using a hydrogen fuel cells for backup power generation at data centers. Microsoft conducted the proof-of-concept at a data center near Salt Lake City, Utah. Power Innovations Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

billion USD to the global economy by 2030 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4%. “We Data centers and cloud solutions have to be manufactured with low-carbon materials. It’s our responsibility to provide green data centers.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The facility is getting a new name in the deal, Crane Clean Energy Center , and is expected to become operational by 2028. Power demand is rising as Microsoft ramps up construction of new, power-hungry data centers in order to support the increased use of artificial intelligence and generative AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Rather than using the traditional materials of steel and concrete for the entire build, Microsoft is using cross-laminated timber (CLT) for a new data center in Northern Virginia. The experiment is part of the company's drive to become carbon negative by 2030 and offset all its emissions since its founding. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rendering of a data center that Microsoft is building using cross-laminated timber for its floors and ceilings in order to reduce the amount of steel and concrete used, which have a bigger carbon impact. But they also need to put their data center infrastructure on low-carbon diets, moving away from traditional steel and concrete.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2024

The increasing use of artificial intelligence and generative AI tools like ChatGPT will make Microsoft’s environmental targets even tougher to reach as they drive demand for ever more energy-gobbling data centers built from carbon-intensive materials such as steel and concrete. We still have six years to go.

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