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Sustainability, grid demands, AI workloads will challenge data center growth in 2025

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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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Arista financials offer glimpse of AI network development

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During the vendor’s third-quarter financial call, Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal said she is “pleasantly surprised with the faster acceleration of AI pilots in 2024.” So we do see a lot of tailoring now around the size of the deployments based on how many GPUs they want to deploy their data center,” McCool said. “As

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Lightmatter launches photonic chips to eliminate GPU idle time in AI data centers

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Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. Industry implications The introduction of silicon photonics into AI infrastructure represents a potential shift in how data centers are designed.

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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion

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In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Benefits of using small modular reactors Data center power usage is set to surge in the coming years, driven by cloud computing and AI. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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Schneider Electric ousts CEO over strategic differences

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Herweck, who had been in the role for 18 months, was replaced by the head of the company’s energy management business, Olivier Blum, to drive Schneider Electric’s next strategic phase, which includes scaling its energy management and data center operations. Analysts, however, showed surprise over this move by the French firm.

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Cisco financials catch AI demand, enterprise networking growth

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Our AI infrastructure orders with webscalers in Q2 surpassed $350 million, bringing our year-to-date total to approximately $700 million, and we are on track to exceed $1 billion of AI infrastructure orders in fiscal year 25, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said during the vendors financial call.

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Data centers are now critical national infrastructure, says UK government

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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