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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.
Finland Data Center Conversion Underway For Aiber Networks
Cloud service provider Aiber Networks announced plans in late June to convert an underground military facility into a Finland data center.The site was once an airplane factory in the 1930s, carved into the the side of cliffs in the city of Tampere. The facility was used by the state-owned aviation company to create heavy machinery and planes for Finland and later the Soviet Union. Now, the caves will be used to host high availability cloud services."We are happy that a perfect solution was found to the old Härmälä caves. The data center business is modern industrialism and these digital factories fit...
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Colorado Data Center Acquired By Uber
Rideshare company Uber recently bought a Colorado data center outside Boulder from Microsoft in order to strengthen its map imaging operations. With the sale, Microsoft will cease collecting mapping data.Along with the Colorado data center, Uber also acquired 100 Microsoft employees to assist with image collection and navigation systems, cameras, software and a license for Microsoft intellectual property. These assets will help the company continue to build on its mapping operations, but other details have not been released about the acquisition."[W]e will no longer collect mapping imagery ourselves, and instead will continue to partner with premium content and imagery providers for...
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Colorado Data Center Opened By OneNeck IT Solutions
OneNeck IT Solutions announced in late June that it had completed its new Denver data center.The facility, located in Douglas County, is the company's first in Colorado and ninth within the U.S. The $20 million site currently offers 35,000 square feet of space, but a total of 160,000 square feet will be available on the 11 acre lot once the facility is fully constructed. The site was built with 11.5 million pounds of high-density concrete surrounding and supporting the building, and the walls and ceilings were made with 15 inch-thick pre-stressed concrete with reinforced with steel. The roof was also...
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Phoenix Data Center Campus Expanded By CyrusOne
Global colocation solutions provider CyrusOne announced construction had begun on a new Phoenix data center at the end of June. The company's Chandler, Arizona campus, which is approximately 22 miles from Phoenix, is already home to two data centers, with room to grow.The new facility will be 120,000 square feet and is expected to be completed in late 2015. Along with the new shell, 36,000 square feet of colocation space will be available at the company's second Phoenix data center.In October 2014, the company opened its second Phoenix data center, Phoenix II, another 120,000-square-foot facility that would provide 12 MW and...
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London Data Center Campus
Cloud and data center campus, blending business with hyper-connectivity. Kao Park Data Center Campus will provide four completely independent 26,500 SF data centers with availability from 1MW up to entire, multi-MW data halls. Strategically positioned in the town’s burgeoning Enterprise Zone of 51ha, Kao Park sits at the heart of Harlow’s newest generation of science and technology innovators.
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