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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.

New York Data Center Opened By Yahoo
Toward the end of April, Yahoo announced the launch of its Lockport, New York data center. This represents the second New York facility for the company, as well as the second time it has leveraged its 'computing coop' data center design style.Although the company hasn't been expanding as fast as some of its competitors in the cloud infrastructure space, experts have noted that Yahoo does have a robust data center footprint. The addition of the new Lockport data center, located approximately 20 miles east of Niagara Falls and about 30 miles northeast of Buffalo, will only serve to support...
New Jersey Data Center Expansion Completed By Net Access
Net Access announced in late April that it had completed a major expansion of its New Jersey data center, adding more space and power capacity.The expansion of the Parsippany, New Jersey facility will provide the company with an additional 70,000 square feet of available space, as well as 7.5 MW of UPS power and capacity for 1,500 more cabinets. With the new space, the New Jersey data center now has a total footprint of 120,000 square feet.The newly expanded site offers redundant modular electrical infrastructure capable of offering dual power systems for dual power feeds to each individual server rack....
Netherlands Data Center Opened By SoftLayer
Toward the end of April, SoftLayer, a managed hosting and cloud provider owned by IBM, announced the opening of its newest Netherlands data center in Almere. The facility, situated just outside of Amsterdam, is the company's second data center in the region.The new Almere data center will help SoftLayer expand its presence in the area, and will serve to support IBM's goal of doubling the company's service footprint in the country. The Netherlands data center will offer a range of benefits for clients in the region, including access to redundant data storage and geographically isolated services, which can prove advantageous for customers'...
Data Center Finance: CyrusOne Acquires Cervalis Holdings
CyrusOne announced in late April that it completed the acquisition of Cervalis Holdings, a privately-held data center owner and operator based in Norwalk, Connecticut. As part of the deal, CyrusOne will come into possession of four New York data centers and two work area recovery facilities. The new sites will expand CyrusOne's data center portfolio to 31 locations across 12 different cities, including 10 U.S. sites, a London data center and a Singapore data center. The New York data centers are all Tier 3 and higher facilities, comprising more than 500,000 square feet, including over 125,000 square feet of colocation...
Modular Data Center Installed at University of Montana
The University of Montana recently completed the deployment of a modular data center to help consolidate its IT infrastructure. Before the Montana data center was established in Missoula, the university's IT systems were spread throughout the campus. Now, the IT team can manage and maintain the institution's legacy servers and storage solutions from the on-campus modular data center structure.The university elected to utilize CommScope's Data Center on Demand solution for its modular facility project. The initiative was launched in 2014, and took only nine months to complete thanks to the pre-fabricated, modular solution.In addition to taking a shorter time...