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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.

Nebraska Data Center Day Draws National Attention To Industry Offerings
As data has become an increasingly important part of business, a growing number of companies are looking to build or rent space in computing facilities in order to store all of their critical information. Nebraska has emerged as a popular location due to climate, energy, and tax incentives, and more businesses are building data centers in the state every year.In an attempt to draw even more companies to the state, the Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership hosted its fourth annual Data Center Day in mid-June. The event brought data center professionals and representatives from 10 enterprises across the country...
Santa Clara Data Center Contracted By 21Vianet
Chinese colocation services provider 21Vianet recently announced a partnership with California-based data center provider Server Farm Realty. The company looks to provide computing resources to its Chinese customers by using Server Farm Realty's Santa Clara data center, which boasts 3MW of computing power.Chinese technology companies are clamoring for space in the Silicon Valley data center market. 21Vianet joins Aliyun, the cloud services unit of e-commerce site Alibaba, as another company offering colocation services from Silicon Valley to Chinese customers.Server Farm Realty will also be able to serve U.S. customers who want to establish a server presence in China through...
New Hampshire Data Center Opened By Fairpoint Communications
A New Hampshire data center was recently opened by FairPoint Communications, a telecom service provider. This is the company's second center in the state and overall. FairPoint is not alone in moving between being a traditional telecom and a data center provider. Many traditional telecom vendors are increasing their data center portfolio in order to offset the losses some organizations are facing from providing land lines. Data centers play to a telecom service's expertise with information and network, but do so at a slightly larger scale. The company is looking at expanding with new data centers into Maine and Vermont, two other...
Dallas Data Center Expands With Wholesale Suite
Infomart Data Centers announced in late June the opening of the first wholesale data center suite out of its Dallas data center facilities. The suite, which cost Infomart $40 million to expand out of the existing facility, covers 24,000 square feet of the 1.6-million-square-foot building and will eventually supply up to 40 MW of additional power and 500,000 square feet of data center colocation space.The wholesale suite will allow service providers to rent larger portions of the facility, up to 3 MW or more of computing power at a time, instead of on a smaller rack-by-rack basis.Company officials hope...
Pennsylvania Data Center Under Construction At Penn State
Construction is underway at the Pennsylvania data center located at Penn State University near Hershey. The 1.75-MW data center will be capable of expanding to at least 8 MW in the future if necessary. Construction is expected to finish June 2016.The facility, which is located at University Park, was first announced in March 2015 as the university's answer to increased demand for high-performance computing. Construction began in April. It is the second facility of its kind at Penn State. The first, located at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, was announced in November 2014. Construction on that Pennsylvania data center...