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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.

Dallas Data Center Construction Started For State Farm
State Farm announced in late December that it had broken ground on its new Texas data center. The facility is located just south of the company's new offices in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas. The site offers more than 129,000 square feet of available space on 15 acres of land. The building, which was designed by Corgan Architects in Dallas, will be constructed all in one story. The complex will also offer parking spaces for the more than 130 workers who will be needed to run the Texas data center. The complex is being built on land previously housing a farm...
New York Data Center Construction To Begin For BlackRock
BlackRock Inc. announced in early January that the construction of its new New York data center is about to start.The building of the facility, one of the largest development projects in the area, will cost approximately $80 million. The New York data center will be built in the CrossPoint Business Park in Getzville, a hamlet within the city of Amherst, which is northeast of Buffalo. The site will offer almost 31,000 square feet of available space and will create jobs for an estimated 25 people by 2018.BlackRock received a financial package from the Amherst Industrial Development Agency that included a...
Ireland Data Center Planned For EMC
Cloud service provider EMC announced in late December that it is looking to expand its data center portfolio with an Ireland data center in County Cork.The company is applying to the Cork County Council for planning permission to create a new data center at its existing Ovens plant. The new facility will include four stories of server space, as well as offices and a large parking lot. Construction would be completed in two phases.If approved, the expansion project could take up to 10 years to complete, but EMC vice president Bob Savage said it is worth the wait since...
Data Center Finance: Xerox Sells IT Outsourcing Unit
Xerox announced in late December that it made a deal to sell its IT outsourcing business to French technology company Atos for more than $1 billion. "It's an important strategic move for us," said Xerox Services president Robert Zapfel. "For Xerox, this is a chance to really focus on really growing the businesses where we are strongest. We had a lot of success with the I.T. outsourcing business, but we were subscale versus the larger players." The newly acquired unit, which consists of nearly 10,000 employees in 45 different countries, will be added to Atos' growing outsourcing business. Xerox's existing ITO...
Portland Data Center Construction Accelerated By T5
T5 Data Centers announced in late December that it secured $55 million in order to fund a new Portland data center. The new complex will consist of two buildings on a more than 2 million square-foot campus when fully completed. The project was delayed for more than a year, but initial construction began in September. The additional funding will allow T5 to accelerate the first phase of building, which is expected to be operational by summer 2015 and offer 3.5 MW of power. Once completely built out, the facility will support 12.5 MW of available power. The Portland, Oregon data center...