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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.

How much will the Big 6 public data center companies invest in developing new space in 2014?
Answer: The Big 6 public data centers include EQIX, DLR, DFT, COR, CONE and QTS. In 2014 these companies report their estimated development capital expense to be $2.1 to $2.3 billion, including land and construction. Assuming a cost of $8 million per megawatt, this would correlated to roughly 250 MW of capacity.
UK Data Center and Tech Future Looks Bright
The data center industry is gaining mainstream awareness and attracting investors – from investment banks, to venture capitalists and wooing those of the traditional real estate market. There was continued growth of this sector through the recession in the US and the UK and it is predicted to inject billions more into the market in the coming years. It is clear the Internet economy is on the rise. Currently the UK’s internet economy accounts for more than 8% of the country’s GDP and that number is expected to rise to 12.4% by 2016 contributing trillions to the UK economy, according...
US and Canada Data Centers: Fujitsu Grows Its Service Footprint
Toward the end of August, technology giant Fujitsu Ltd. announced the opening of three new Tier III computing facilities in the U.S. and Canada. The company launched a New York data center as well as a California data center, and has plans to open a Regina, Saskatchewan data center in the very near future. The California data center, New York data center and Canada data center were all constructed in accordance with industry guidelines for Tier III sustainability and redundancy. This provides a 99.982 percent uptime guarantee for clients receiving services from the data centers. The new facilities will support Fujitsu's increasing...
Virginia Data Center Opened By Level 3
Level 3 announced in August that it has opened a new Virginia data center, expanding its worldwide footprint of facilities. The new data center in Herndon, Virginia has achieved the highest of Level 3's performance ratings, earning the designation of a Premiere Elite facility. With such a certification comes multi-tier security, fully redundant, high-density power and cooling systems and the ability to connect to Level 3's global network. Facilities of this type are designed to meet the connectivity demands and strict operating requirements of enterprise customers. Level 3 operates more than 350 facilities worldwide and their new Virginia data center is the third...
Austin Data Center Expansion Completed By CyrusOne
Colocation provider CyrusOne announced in August it had completed an expansion of its second Austin data center, creating an additional 5,000 square feet of raised floor space in the facility's second data hall. The Austin II colocation data center features a 2N power redundancy architecture and access to CyrusOne's Texas IX platform. The Texas IX network provides interconnection to more than a dozen of the company's enterprise locations and third-party facilities in major metropolitan markets in the state and elsewhere. The newly expanded Texas data center now boasts 65,000 square feet and is in the first phase of four potential phases that...