Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The construction of massive data center campuses is booming, with hyperscalers, colocation providers and large enterprises developing new capacity to support the exploding requirements of AI. These are not normal times There has always been growth in data center capacity but never anything like this. TWh to 162.5

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Solidigm, a provider of NAND flash solid-state drives, and memory giant Micron have each introduced very high-capacity SSD drives meant for enterprise data centers, particularly in AI use cases. Solidigm intros 122TB PCIe SSD Solidigm unveiled its highest capacity PCIe drive yet, the 122TB Solidigm D5-P5336 data center SSD.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Space supply in major data center markets increased by 34% year-over-year to 6,922.6 There is a considerable pricing disparity between newly built data centers and legacy facilities, reflecting the premium placed on modern, energy-efficient infrastructure. MW capacity being built at the end of 2023.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power. This move comes as other major tech companies are also exploring nuclear power as a sustainable energy source.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

HPE claims that this approach effectively reduces the required data center floor space by 50% and reduces the cooling power necessary per server blade by 37%. “As Data centers warm up to liquid cooling : AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing are creating cooling challenges for data center owners and operators.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

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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Information Week

MAY 15, 2024

The increasing use of AI and data centers is leading to a surge in energy consumption, posing risks for energy, tech, and data companies. It also presents an opportunity for these companies to decarbonize, build trust, and reduce long-term costs.

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Network World

JUNE 3, 2024

The Singapore government is advancing a green data center strategy in response to rising demand for computing resources, driven in large part by resource-hungry AI projects. Singapore wants to go beyond that and reduce energy use for air-cooling by raising the temperatures at which servers and storage racks can safely operate.

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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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Information Week

JUNE 7, 2024

As organizations scramble to integrate AI platforms into their businesses, the impact on data center energy requirements is skyrocketing, with future demand certain to rise.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, has unexpectedly removed its CEO, Peter Herweck, due to disagreements over the company’s strategic direction. Speed and agility in competitive markets is critical, especially within the company’s systems division serving the data center sector.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rising costs, AI concerns and staffing challenges are among the top issues facing data center leaders in 2024, according to Uptime Institute’s latest survey data. Data center teams are working to balance higher rack power density and future capacity needs with capital investments and staffing limitations.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

A bid by Google Ireland to build a third data center at Grange Castle Business Park in south Dublin has been rejected by local politicians, in part due to what was described as “the lack of significant on-site renewable energy” to power the proposed facility. Carbon footprint : How power is generated matters, he pointed out. ”If

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This month, Tradom also will begin trials using the new product, while Sakura Internet is in the process of a conducting a feasibility study on the use of the technology for its data center operations, according to Fujitsu.

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Information Week

JANUARY 4, 2024

The energy cost of operating data centers is growing. And much of that energy ultimately becomes waste heat. Innovative operators are looking at ways that this heat can be used in agricultural production.

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Microsoft’s plan to tap into a reactor at Three Mile Island to power data centers fuels questions about how far our voracious appetite for energy might go.

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Information Week

AUGUST 31, 2023

As data centers struggle to tackle energy efficiency and decarbonize, AI has emerged as a powerful solution. Let’s look at the technology -- and where it falls short.

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Information Week

MARCH 23, 2023

Multiple cooling approaches promise more powerful and energy-efficient data centers.

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Network World

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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). This enables “orders of magnitude lower marginal energy costs,” the company wrote.

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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

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

JULY 25, 2024

“Historically, liquid cooling vendors touted increased efficiency and sustainability as factors behind the technology’s adoption,” said Lucas Beran, research director at Dell’Oro Group and author of the firm’s Data Center Liquid Cooling Advanced Research Report. Read more about liquid cooling Is immersion cooling ready for mainstream?

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Network World

JULY 9, 2024

The change in the UK government following the general election on July 4 is also leading to a change in the country’s planning policies for data center construction. The new Labour government is reconsidering two urban planning decisions that had put the brakes on data center investments. a year to reach $10.13

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft and BlackRock are leading a group of investment companies with plans to plow up to $100 billion into the development of data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power them. But those GPUs consume far more power than your typical data center, and they are already power constrained.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The UK government added data centers to its list of protected critical national infrastructure (CNI) on Thursday, the first change to its CNI list since 2015, when it added the space and defense sectors. Earlier this week, Amazon made a major investment in UK data centers. “In

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 16, 2023

Debates surrounding the Energy Efficiency Act, which aims to reduce energy use in public authorities, corporations, and data centers, will potentially influence future laws globally. Here’s the context: Data centers use a lot of energy. Why is this important and what does it mean?

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As concerns over AI energy consumption ratchet up, chip maker Nvidia is defending what it calls a steadfast commitment to sustainability. Goldman Sachs estimates that data center power demand will grow 160% by 2030 — up from 1% to 2% of overall worldwide usage to 3% to 4%. watt-hours, compared to 0.3 watt-hours.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

An artist’s conception shows data-center spacecraft being added to an orbital array. based Starcloud got its start just last year under a different name — Lumen Orbit — but the newly renamed company is already filling out its seed funding round with $10 million in fresh investment for space-based data centers.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

An Amazon data center in Oregon. AWS Photo) Amazon today announced agreements supporting the construction of a next-generation nuclear power plant in its home state of Washington — marking the latest development in the tech-driven resurgence of nuclear energy. Inside an Amazon data center in Ohio.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, concerns about their energy consumption and environmental impact have raised questions about their compatibility with ESG objectives. Aligning IT operations with ESG metrics: CIOs need to ensure that technology systems are energy-efficient and contribute to reducing the company’s carbon footprint.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. In fact, according to the International Energy Agency, by 2026 the AI industry is expected to have grown exponentially to consume at least ten times its electricity demand in 2023. I’ve seen numbers up to 40% of the total power consumption of a data center going to cooling.

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Information Week

JANUARY 31, 2023

The technology reshaping businesses also comes with its own carbon footprint, with the use of energy-intensive data centers requiring a more sustainable approach.

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

Graviton instances cost up to 20% less and use up to 60% less energy than comparable EC2 instances on x86, and they are up to 40% more cost-effective than x86. But the challenge of getting Arm into enterprise data centers lies in all the legacy code. So, its more of a trend as opposed to a one-off, he said.

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Information Week

JANUARY 31, 2025

As Microsoft invests $80 billion to build out AI-powered data centers, tech companies face energy challenges in the cost of AI infrastructure.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Northern Virginias Data Center Alley is feeling the energy squeeze as data center growth explodes.

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