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Google Cloud unveils AI-optimised infrastructure enhancements

Google has announced game-changing updates to its AI-optimized cloud, featuring fifth-generation TPUs and NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Companies like Gridspace have reported a 5x increase in AI model training speed using the TPU v5e. This move highlights the demands of generative AI and large language models, which have seen their ‘parameters’ increase tenfold annually. Another notable advancement is the introduction of Multislice technology, which supports scaling of AI models beyond the physical limits of TPU pods. This capability is expected to materially boost Google Cloud’s performance. Lastly, as Google and other hyperscalers industrialize, it is increasingly evident that compute is migrating to regional hubs of power with friendly development environments. These hubs are revitalizing our industrial stock and evolving into the central backbone of our modern compute industry.

365 Data Centers Now Offering Micro-Colocation Solutions
Colocation services provider 365 Data Centers is now providing micro-colocation solutions to customers that only need a few racks in a data center. The company's new Colo by the 'U' service allows customers to purchase smaller amounts of space in the data center, starting around 1.75 inches of rack space.The company is rolling this service out to its 15 U.S. data centers, which include a New York data center, Chicago data center and San Jose data center, among others.365 Data Centers hopes this Colo by the 'U' solution will provide answers for small and mid-sized businesses that wouldn't need a...
Delaware Government Approves Data Center Grant
Lawmakers in Delaware added a grant of $7.5 million to the state's budget at the end of June for a potential Middletown data center.The project was proposed at the end of May by Cirrus Delaware, LLC., a colocation services provider based in the area. The company asked for the grant in order to build a 228,000-square-foot, 52.5-MW data center. The Middletown Technology Center, which would cost $350 million to build, would also create 125 full-time jobs once open and 2,000 jobs during construction.This Delaware data center project is seen as controversial by many because of the 52.5 MW natural...
Delaware Data Center May Be State Funded
A Delaware data center may be in the works, alongside a power plant in Middletown. Cirrus Delaware LLC, the corporation that is behind the Middletown project, has already submitted a request for state aid equivalent to the amount provided by this bill. This is only the beginning of funding the new data center, however, as Cirrus would still need additional approval from economic development officials in order to receive more of the grant money it would need to build the new center.There has been some opposition in the area to the data center, mostly due to the fact that...
France Data Center Opened by Jaguar Network
A France data center has been opened by Jaguar Network, a provider of hosting services. Jaguar Network's new center is notable because it is the first non-U.S. company to get an Open-IX certification. This standard was created by Open-IX, a non-profit, to provide a global standard in data center interconnection.In past years, Open-IX certificates have gone only to North American data centers. In fact, there have been about 25 data centers in the United States that have received this award. The French Jaguar Network site in Marseille is a particularly good spot for a newly certified center to be in. It...
India Data Centers Announced By Amazon
Online retail giant and cloud services provider Amazon, Inc. announced at the beginning of July that it would be expanding its cloud colocation real estate with new India data centers in 2016.Amazon Web Services operates out of 11 global regions currently, serving more than 1 million customers in 190 countries. The exact number of India data centers Amazon plans to open has not yet been announced, but these facilities will add to the infrastructure of AWS's Asia Pacific regions, which now include Tokyo data centers, Singapore data centers, Beijing data centers and Sydney data centers.With these new cloud data centers,...