Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2025

An improvement to the way Linux handles network traffic, developed by researchers at Canadas University of Waterloo, could make data center applications run more efficiently and save energy at the same time. In polling mode, the application requests data, processes it, and then requests more, in a continuous cycle.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Instead, it uses an 8-element cooling design that covers various server components such as the server blade, network fabric, and coolant distribution unit (CDU). 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

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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

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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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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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

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. The APs come with built-in Bluetooth Low Energy, ultra-wideband, and GPS 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

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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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. But you end up with about between 10% and 20% of the time, depending on what the capacity penetration is, where you don’t have carbon-free energy to keep the grid stable,” Dietrich said. times the 2023 level.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Multiple business imperatives are driving CIOs to re-examine and re-invent their approach to network infrastructure, including the mission critical backbone that supports highly complex, bandwidth-intensive, multi-cloud environments. One emerging alternative: backbone-as-a-service (BBaaS) offerings.

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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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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.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies is growing as well. But the use of fiber optics in networks is not without its challenges.

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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.

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

In addition, the homegrown Graviton processor powered more than 250,000 CPUs during Amazon Prime Day, showing its efficiency in handling demand, according to a presentation at the recent AWS: reInvent conference by Dave Brown, vice president of AWS compute & networking services. So, its more of a trend as opposed to a one-off, he said.

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Network World

JULY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services has been seriously bolstering its network to handle the increased demands associated with its AI-based applications and services. Instead of preserving packets order, SRD sends the packets over as many network paths as possible, while avoiding overloaded paths. The new network, UltraCluster 2.0,

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion (£10 billion) to build one of Europe’s largest AI data centers in Northumberland, UK, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. The project is expected to enhance the UK’s AI infrastructure, catering to the vast data storage demands of AI technologies. US private equity giant Blackstone is investing $13.3

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is geared toward helping enterprises and hyperscalers more easily and inexpensively use optical technology in their networks.

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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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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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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% Thats half of the 25 W of traditional networking cables. of total U.S.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In many ways, networking is a mature, stable industry, based on established technologies like Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. But networking vendors are constantly innovating to keep pace with skyrocketing volumes of traffic that need to move securely and reliably across complex multicloud environments.

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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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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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TechSpot

JANUARY 26, 2025

Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science, led by Professor Martin Karsten and including Peter Cai, identified inefficiencies in network traffic processing for communications-heavy server applications. Read Entire Article

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. Larger ones resemble traditional data centers. Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!]

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