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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.

Rio de Janeiro Data Center To Be Expanded By Equinix
Equinix is planning to expand its Rio De Janeiro data center. This facility, commonly referred to as RJ2, will open its new phase in the third quarter of 2015. This has been a major center for Equinix since it opened. The company put $24 million into it in 2013, and is now expanding it to provide accommodations for roughly 630 cabinets. The expansion is principally designed to increase the redundancy and connectivity of the center to allow more uptime. Equinix is situated particularly well to utilize a fast Brazil data center, as it's Miami data center, MI3, currently provides the fastest traffic...
Virginia Data Center Fraud Uncovered
Paul Allen, a supposed data center entrepreneur, has plead guilty to three counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy. Allen had promised to build a $37 million data center in Virginia. He contracted Data Knight 365, which has now been determined to be a shell company created for this purpose, to build the facility.David St Lawrence, a citizen of Floyd County where the data center was to have been constructed, found inconsistencies in the story in 2009. The supposed world headquarters of Data Knight 365 was actually leased out to a different group. This was just the beginning...
Oregon Data Center Opened By Google
Google is expanding its presence in Oregon with a new data center in The Dalles. This is the second facility the company operates in the town, the first of which represented Google's first custom data center in 2006.The new facility, located nearby the Columbia River about 100 miles east of Portland, is a 164,000-square-foot structure that cost Google an estimated $6 million to establish. The massive Oregon data center will almost double the company's current footprint in the area.Oregon has been a leading choice for many big name data center operators, including Facebook, Apple and Amazon. The state offers a...
California Data Center Owned By CenturyLink Gets Natural Gas Power Plant
CenturyLink announced in early April that it deployed an on-site natural gas power generation plant from Bloom Energy to fuel the expansion of its Southern California data center.The deal, which was initially announced in 2013, has been completed and provides CenturyLink with a 500kW power plant that will create the energy for part of the load for the Irvine data center's 2MW expansion. The facility will be the first multi-tenant site in Southern California to rely on natural gas as a power source. Prior to the agreement with CenturyLink, Bloom's involvement in the data center market was primarily in single-tenant...
New York Data Center Opened by Atlantic.net
Atlantic.net, a Florida based regional colocation business, recently expanded its cloud data center offerings. The VPS business expanded to a New York data center, following its growth in Dallas, Toronto and San Francisco. Abroad, Atlantic.net is set to expand into Singapore and the U.K.The New York location is primarily set up to act as a cloud data center, opposite the company's Florida branch. The organization chose New York over Ashburn, Virginia, which has a faster growing data center market, as part of its long term strategy."Sixty percent of our customers are international, but they don't know where Ashburn is," noted Atlantic.net CEO Marty...