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

Network World

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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Tariff war throws building of data centers into disarray

Network World

Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. And if you slow down AI, that will slow down the data centers.

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Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan

Network World

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. Data centers can potentially benefit from 2% to 5% energy savings for every 1C increase in operating temperature.

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

There’s a new type of switch that could soon be showing up in AI-optimized data centers, a PCIe 6 fabric switch. fabric switch GPUs and AI acceleration technologies typically connect to a hardware motherboard via a PCIe (PCI Express) slot connection. how governance has changed, and what to expect next. Scorpio PCIe 6.0

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Blackstone to invest $13.3B in AI data center in the UK

Network World

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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HPE Aruba grows network mgmt. deployment options

Network World

HPE Aruba Networking Central, the companys core cloud-based management and orchestration platform for wired and wireless networks spanning campus, branch, and data center sites, will now be available for VPC environments and on-premises deployments that can operate while being disconnected from the cloud.

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Number of US Government IT Facilities Rises to 7000 - Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Consolidation » Government. Government IT Facilities Rises to 7,000. Government IT Facilities Rises to 7,000. government wants its servers to come out of the closets. As a result, the number of IT facilities included in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) continues to grow.