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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.

Australia Data Center Space Acquired By Dell
Dell announced in mid-October that it has taken space in two of Digital Realty's Australia data centers. The company is utilizing space in Digital Realty's Sydney data center and Melbourne data center in order to provide enhanced cloud services to its customers in the region. Dell customers will be able to receive communication-as-a-service, which offers access to more than a dozen Australian telecommunications and Internet service providers including Telstra and Optus. "We want an incredibly highly secure facility, first and foremost," said Dell's cloud services director Kyle Bunting. "Always most important, and as a general mantra of what our customers are trying to...
Virtual London Data Centers Opened by Interoute
Interoute announced in early October the expansion of its cloud offering to open two new virtual London data centers. The new virtual zones were deployed in less than 12 weeks and bring the company's total number of global virtual data centers to 10, half of which were opened just this year. The virtual London data centers are fully automated Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions that offer companies on-demand computing, storage and application access. The virtual zones are built into Interoute's physical, fiber connected facilities. Packets can be sent between the two London zones in 1.3 milliseconds, and between a London facility and the...
Scotland Data Center Planned For Brightsolid
Brightsolid announced plans in early October to build a new, energy efficient Scotland data center.The company has said it will invest $8 million into the Aberdeen facility, which will have an initial capacity of 23,000 square feet and the ability to hold 200 high-density racks with 30 kW of capacity each. The building is being designed to expand to twice its original size, with capacity for 400 petabytes of data storage.Construction of the Tier III facility is expected to begin in late October and Brightsolid plans to have the Scotland data center operational by April 2015. The company intends to...
Ohio Data Center Move Announced by AEP
American Electric Power Company announced in early October that it plans to move its corporate Columbus facility to a New Albany, Ohio data center built by Compass Datacenters. The New Albany data center will provide 20,500 square feet of space, 16,000 square feet of which will be dedicated to housing computing equipment and wiring. AEP spokeswoman Tammy Ridout said that the old Columbus headquarters had been outgrown and was no longer able to meet the technological needs of the company. "Our headquarters building was built in the early 1980s when we hardly had any computers, and our needs have grown exponentially...
Data Center Finance: PowerSecure International Acquires Data Center Energy Service
PowerSecure International Inc. announced in mid-October that it had acquired the data center energy services business of Power Design Inc.PDI's data center energy division brought in over $24 million in revenue last year after being launched in 2010. It has experienced a growth rate of between 35 and 40 percent. PowerSecure bought the business for $13 million in cash, as well as the potential for an extra earn-out payment of up to $2 million. PowerSecure expects the deal to further its penetration into the data center market."By acquiring PDI's data center business, we have immediately bolstered our credibility with data centers and end...