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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.

Amsterdam Data Center Opened By eFolder
Business continuity and cloud services provider eFolder announced in early February that it opened an Amsterdam data center.The new facility is the company's first Europe data center, and signifies its continued expansion into broader markets and a move to provide partners in the region with full access to eFolder's services. Opening an Amsterdam data center also enables clients to meet demand for locally hosted data, as well as regulations for data residency by the European Union.To ensure compliancy with the highest government and industry standards, eFolder has subjected its facilities to strict audits and availability testing. The Amsterdam data...
Data Center Finance: Google Sets Another Data Center Spending Record
Google announced in early February that it had completed yet another record-setting year for data center infrastructure spending. The company reported spending more than $3.5 billion on "real estate purchases, production equipment and data center construction" in the final quarter of 2014 and almost $11 billion for the year. While significant spending on data center infrastructure is necessary to build a successful Web company, Google's expenditures are dramatic even among similarly sized service providers. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2014, Amazon spent just $1.1 billion and less than $5 billion for the entire year. Microsoft spent only slightly...
5 Big Changes Facing The Data Center Industry In 2015
Users' reliance on data centers has grown exponentially of late. The systems and processes that power those facilities are advancing at a rapid rate, and service providers have to keep up or risk relying on outdated technology."Data centers are undergoing fundamental changes as management shifts their focus to issues such as speed of deployment, manageability, scalability, efficiency and security," said Steve Hassell, president of data center solutions at Emerson Network Power. "They are seeking innovations that give them the agility they need to respond to changes both in the data center ecosystem and in the markets they serve."Moving further into 2015,...
Ministry of Defence Enhances Energy Efficiency with Ark Data Centres
Ark Data Centres, which designs, constructs and operates the UK's most efficient data centres, today announced that it is implementing a new state-of-the-art data centre solution for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) at Corsham in Wiltshire. This major consolidation and centralisation project may generate significant savings to the public purse in energy costs over the next 10 years. The new data centre will support the delivery of MOD IT services. The MOD is closing the existing host site in Bath as part of the Department’s on-going programme of cost saving and efficiency. This prime real estate has already been sold...
Europe Data Centers Receive Direct Fiber Connection From Tampnet
Norwegian network provider Tampnet announced in early February that it is partnering with two European data center operators to create a direct fiber link between two of the continent's oil capitals.Data center service provider Internet For Business, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, and Norway-based Green Mountain AS have made a deal with Tampnet to deliver the world's first international fiber optic connection between two data centers. Tampnet operates one of the biggest offshore low latency, high capacity communication networks in the world, making them an ideal partner to connect the two facilities.Tampnet acquired the subsea fiber connection from oil company BP...