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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.

Europe Data Center Openings Announced By Fieldglass
Fieldglass, a subsidiary of SAP, announced in early March that it had launched three new Europe data centers.German enterprise software company SAP bought Illinois-based Fieldglass last year in an effort to expand its SaaS capabilities. Now the company has opened three fully redundant facilities in the continent. The new sites - a U.K. data center, Netherlands data center and Germany data center - will all be hosted by ServerCentral. The partnership between the two companies was established and proven in Fieldglass' U.S. data centers and will now provide improved management in the company's European facilities."We are redoubling our commitment...
Data Center Finance: Videotron acquires 4Degrees Colocation
Canadian telecommunications provider Videotron Business Solutions announced in mid-March that it has acquired 4Degrees Colocation and its accompanying Quebec data center.The deal, which cost $31.5 million but could increase to $35.5 million if certain targets are reached, provides Videotron with a significant advantage in offering bundled services to enterprises in the Quebec area. Local businesses are becoming increasingly interested in digitizing and decentralizing their data servers. The merger will enable Videotron to expand its service offerings and meet customers' growing technological and hosting demands."Videotron is very pleased to acquire this promising business," said Manon Brouillette, President and CEO of...
Illinois and Indiana Data Centers Expanded By U. S. Signal
Two of U.S. Signal's facilities - its Indiana and Illinois data centers - will expand this year. This continued growth builds on the company's expansion of a West Michigan data center it opened in 2014. The company's Oak Brook facility, located outside Chicago, will double in size by the end of spring 2015, and the Indianapolis data center will add 4,000 square feet in the same time. Currently, U.S. Signal manages 10 data centers in eight states. "This is our second data center expansion in less than a year," Kirk Dombek, U.S. Signal's vice president of business development, said. "Companies are realizing the...
Nebraska Data Center Opened By Two Universities
A new Nebraska data center is being established to support universities in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota.The facility is being primarily funded by $300,000 from the National Science Foundation. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be housing the Central Plains Research Data Center, which will likely open in Fall 2015.This new center will provide researchers access to restricted federal data, including encrypted and/or sensitive information, as long as they have the appropriate identifying key cards and other security passes with them. In a statement, John Anderson, the data center's executive director, described the information set to be stored in this facility as a...
Data Center Finance: NTT Communications Acquires Majority Stake in e-shelter
At the beginning of March, NTT Communications announced it had acquired a majority stake in Germany's top data center service provider, e-shelter. The agreement provides for NTT Communications to own 86.7 percent of e-shelter's issued shares, making NTT the third largest owner of Europe data center space.Currently, e-shelter operates four German data centers as well as facilities in Zurich, Switzerland, Vienna and Austria. Its structures total more than 968,000 square feet of space. Its flagship facility, dubbed Campus Frankfurt 1, is considered the largest data center in Europe with more than 645,000 square feet of space spread across five buildings...