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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.

Data Center Operator QTS Posts First Quarter Results
QTS Realty Trust announced operating results for the end of its first quarter At the end of April. highlights include total revenues of 61.4 million recognized in the first quarter of 2015, representing an increase of 25.4 percent compared to the first quarter of 2014. The company's outlook for the future is rosy, with expectations to keep on growing over the upcoming months. The organization is likely to continue expanding and investing in current and future data centers."We are pleased that our performance during the first quarter of 2015 continues to demonstrate the strength of our fully integrated technology services platform. Our strong net...
New America-Europe Connect Subsea Cable To Be Built By AquaComms
AquaComms, a major subsea capacity-based network solutions company, has announced that it will begin work on a next-generation transatlantic network to connect America and Europe's digital infrastructure.The new subsea cable, known as AEConnect, will travel between Shirley, NY and Killala on the West Coast of Ireland, a distance of over 3300 miles. "AquaComms' strategy is to build and operate a diversified, solution-based network, providing term and peak capacity product offerings and working in partnership with its contractors, equipment suppliers, backhaul network providers and customers to support the US's and Europe's expanding data requirements of today and for tomorrow, ultimately offering...
Data Center Operator Level 3 Announces Quarterly Reports
Level 3, a major networks services and data center provider, announced its first quarter reports at the end of April. The organization, which operates over 250 carrier-neutral data centers across three continents, has had a strong outlook through its first quarter.Overall, total revenue increased to $2.053 billion this quarter as compared to $2.003 billion in the first quarter of 2014. Net income was $122 million, and earnings per share rose to $0.35 per share from $0.30."We now expect full year 2015 Adjusted EBITDA growth of 14 to 17 percent, compared to our previous outlook of 12 to 16 percent....
North Carolina Data Center Renovations Completed By CentriLogic
Managed hosting firm CentriLogic announced in late April that it had completed the second phase of upgrades at its Lenoir, North Carolina data center. A 4,000 square-foot section of the facility underwent multiple phases of enhancements in order to be able to support CentriLogic's cloud and enterprise hosting business.The newly renovated site will be used by Dacentec, CentriLogic's bare-metal dedicated server division. Dacentec was acquired by the company in 2013 as part of a deal that also included the North Carolina data center, which is about 85 miles west of Winston-Salem and approximately 72 miles east of Asheville. The...
EMC and Iron Mountain To Continue Building Underground Data Centers
EMC has partnered with Iron Mountain this April to build underground data centers, designed to keep back-ups of critical information. Their flagship underground Pennsylvania data center is 220 feet beneath the earth, and has recently picked up a new tenant: Seagate. EMC and Iron Mountain function both as vendors and resellers of their services to groups that want to store data underground.The Pittsburgh data center is technically on the outskirts of the city in Boyers, inside of a former limestone mine. Iron Mountain's expertise in storing important documents has an impressive history within that complex - it stores photo archives, U.S. Government...