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Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

Network World

Massive global demand for AI technology is causing data centers to increase spending on servers, power, and cooling infrastructure. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1 His projections account for recent advances in AI and data center efficiency, he says. Much of this growth is due to AI.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. Plus, some regions have data residency and other restrictive requirements. So we augment with open source, he says. Right now, the company is using the French-built Mistral open source model.

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China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

CIO Business Intelligence

See also: US GPU export limits could bring cold war to AI, data center markets ] China has not said its last word yet. And thanks to the development of AI in the open-source model,hardware availability is no longer a problem, because models are voluntarily tested and improved by their users, e.g., from Europe.

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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. Edgecore unveils high-performance 400G spine switch for data centers : The DCS511 switch delivers up to 12.8 Tb/s of switching capacity with support for open-source network operating systems including SONiC.

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Edgecore unveils high-performance 400G spine switch for data centers

Network World

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. This feature enables long-range, high-speed connections crucial for distributed data center architectures. Terabits per second. Read more networking news Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. What is SONiC?

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AMD to cut 4% of workforce to prioritize AI chip expansion and rival Nvidia

Network World

In its recent earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su underscored that the data center and AI business is now pivotal to the company’s future, expecting a 98% growth in this segment for 2024. However, on a deeper look, the Q3 results showed both strengths and challenges: while total revenue rose by 18% to $6.8