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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.

Data Center Finance: Telstra Acquires Pacnet
Australian telecommunications provider Telstra announced in late December that it is buying Pacnet, an Asian operator with an undersea fiber network and multiple Asia data centers. Telstra is acquiring Pacnet in an effort to expand its business services and operations into the Asia Pacific region and increase its position in the enterprise market. The deal will cost Telstra $697 million. "Asia is an important part of our growth strategy," said Telstra chief executive David Thodey. "We believe this acquisition will help us become a leading provider of enterprise services to multinational companies and carriers in the region." Pacnet has offices in Singapore and Hong Kong...
India Data Center Run By IBM Cuts Carbon Emissions
IBM announced in late December that it plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from one of its India data centers by 40 percent in the coming years.The India data center, located in Bengaluru, will implement water cooling and solar-powered air conditioning. A 50 kW solar photovoltaic system will provide electricity. The solar panels generate DC power that is then directly fed to the servers and converted into AC supply. This will help reduce power loss by 15 percent and cut carbon emissions. The cold water cooling will send a flow of water through the server mainframe and remove the...
Japan Data Center Opened By Akamai Technologies To Fight DDoS Attacks
Cloud service provider Akamai Technologies announced in mid-December that it has opened a new Japan data center in an attempt to more effectively defend against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The new facility is part of an ongoing expansion of Akamai's data center portfolio. The company's global network has a focus on high capacity, regional DDoS scrubbing centers. These types of attacks are used to render a target website unavailable by sending an overwhelming amount of fake requests. The most reliable way to defend against DDoS attacks is to reroute all incoming traffic to a specialized provider with the ability to filter out...
Nigeria Data Center Opening Scheduled For MainOne
MainOne announced in mid-December that its new Nigeria data center will be open in January 2015.The Lagos data center cost $40 million to build and is the largest facility of its kind in the region. The purpose-built site was originally supposed to be functional in the third quarter of 2014, but construction and landscaping delays caused the opening to be moved back.MainOne wanted to create a Lagos data center so the multinational corporations with presence in the area would have a facility in Nigeria to host data instead of taking it outside of the country. The company also saw...
Global Colocation, European Colocation Markets on the Rise
As more businesses turn to colocation data centers to outsource their server management and data center support system needs, the global colocation and European colocation markets will continue to see significant growth. Demand for high-grade utilities and scalable data center space has fueled increases in primary as well as secondary markets, as businesses cut down on IT expenses while positioning themselves for greater agility and flexibility in the future.Globally, the colocation data center market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 12.26 percent between 2014 and 2019, rising from a $25.07 billion market this year...