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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.

Ark Data Centres Selected by Capita for New Private Cloud Service
Corsham, Wiltshire - 27 May 2015 – Capita has partnered with Ark Data Centres to supply secure, energy efficient data center space for the new Capita Private Cloud platform (infrastructure as a service). The move allows Capita IT Enterprise Services to develop standard infrastructures, processes and services that it can offer customers rather than creating bespoke solutions in every case. By using Ark's data centres, Capita IT Enterprise Services will outlay one tenth of the capital cost compared to that of maintaining its existing facilities, and will at the same time reduce its environmental footprint. Thanks to Ark's efficient and...
San Jose Data Center To Be Expanded By 365 And SFMIX
365 Data Centers and the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange announced partnerships in May 2015 to expand their Internet Exchange into 365's colocation facility in San Jose, California.SFMIX is a non-profit organization that offers core IX fabric locations within the San Francisco Bay Area. Its exchanges are placed into carrier-neutral data centers as a way to offer better carrier choice, service options and high speed connections. This one in San Jose will allow various ISPs, businesses and educational institutions to connect to each other without having to go over the Internet, facilitating faster speeds. "SFMIX is proud to be the only non-profit...
Virginia Data Center Lease Agreement Signed Between Facebook and DuPont Fabros
Data center operator DuPont Fabros announced in late May that it had signed a deal to lease a large portion of its new Ashburn data center to Facebook.The new facility, known as ACC7, is currently under a second phase of construction. The expansion will add 9 MW of critical load and 50,000 square feet of space to the site, making it DuPont Fabros' largest facility. Despite not opening until the end of 2015, ACC7 is already 84 percent leased on a critical load basis.One of the Virginia data center's biggest customers is Facebook. The new lease provides the tech...
Sony Acquires New Optical Storage System Company
Sony announced in May that it had acquired Optical Archive Inc, a company that makes optical storage systems for data centers. The goal of this purchase is to leverage the technology to offer new capabilities in hardware design for data centers. Specifically, Sony is attempting to meet the demands of the burgeoning "cold archive" market.Cold archive is data that has to be held for a long time, but isn't accessed frequently. Cloud-photo storage or information that must be held on to for legal purposes is typically put into cold storage. This keeps it from using up the more-expensive to maintain servers.This...
LG's To Open Largest Korean Data Center
The largest Asian data center will be opened in July by LG. This new center will, once both of its phases have been opened, offer 920,000 square feet of white space and will consume 165 megawatts of power. The center will provide high-density server facilities, cloud services, managed hosting and colocation. The data center building will utilize a few different energy supplying strategies to make sure that the facility is able to keep up with the power demands of its hosted computer systems. These are sustainable facilities, and have a power-use efficiency score of 1.4. With a wind tunnel built through the floors of the data...