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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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Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind

Network World

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.

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Microsoft will invest $80B in AI data centers in fiscal 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.

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Questions arise about reasons why Microsoft has cancelled data center lease plans

Network World

A report by TD Cowen indicating that Microsoft is reportedly slowing down or possibly redirecting its data center construction plans is tied to the company potentially being in an oversupply position, analysts with the brokerage say. Over the past four years, he said, Microsoft has been leasing more data centers than owning.

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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion

Network World

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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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories

Network World

The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. Building an AI-oriented data center is no easy task, even by data center construction standards.

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Nokia expands data center SONiC support

Network World

Nokia is offering customers an alternative way to set up data center networks by expanding its data center fabric package to support the open-source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud ( SONiC ). The SONiC community has grown significantly since and now features some 4,000 contributors and 28 paying members.