Data center articles

AMD's $5 billion ZT acquisition: Strategic play or overpriced gamble?

Bottom line: The strategic rationale behind AMD acquiring ZT makes sense, to a point, but $5 billion is a lot to pay, especially when the true value of the transaction relies heavily on the price AMD will get when they spin off ZT's manufacturing unit.

Open Compute Project is developing a low-carbon concrete solution for data centers

AMD just spent $4.9 billion to buy hyperscale server maker ZT Systems

Virginia data centers consume too much water, and things will only get worse with AI

A thirsty potato: According to private records obtained by the Financial Times through freedom of information requests, data center facilities in Virginia have experienced a significant increase in water consumption in recent years. The rise of generative AI could exacerbate this issue, potentially contributing to an environmental disaster in the making.

Icelandic trio launch all-in-one cloud solution powered by renewable energy

In a nutshell: Iceland meets most of its energy needs through various forms of domestically produced renewable energy. According to three companies developing a new data center service, the Nordic island nation could also be the ideal environment for mission-critical cloud applications.

Micron launches industry-first PCIe 6.0 SSDs for data centers

512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor with custom AI engine and HBM memory support announced

Nvidia Blackwell server cabinets could cost somewhere around $2 to $3 million each

Micron says its new 9550 Gen5 drive is the world's fastest data center SSD

Data centers could use as much as a third of Ireland's energy supply by 2026

Ceramic Nano Memory comes to the US, promising a data storage revolution

Samsung joins the 60 TB SSD club, teases future 122 TB model

Google's greenhouse emissions are growing because of AI, and AI could help with that

Is there a sustainable model for AI factories?

Editor's take: Investors usually hate airlines – they're capital-intensive, have high operating expenses, limited suppliers, and no way to differentiate with customers. How are AI factories any different?

Bill Gates says we don't have to worry about AI energy use

"Data centers in space" is a concept that could actually work, study finds

Forward-looking: Data centers, the crux of all things digital, are also enormous energy and water hogs. While the industry has been putting in place more sustainable operating practices, they don't touch the eco-friendly benefits offered by another idea: data centers that operate in space. A new European study has found that not only is this concept technically feasible, but it could also eventually deliver a significant return on investment.

Intel says its optical interconnect chiplet technology is a milestone in high-speed data transmission

AMD approached to make world's fastest AI supercomputer powered by 1.2 million GPU

Forward-looking: It's no secret that Nvidia has been the dominant GPU supplier to data centers, but now there is a very real possibility that AMD might become a serious contender in this market as demand grows. AMD was recently approached by a client asking to create an AI training cluster consisting of a staggering 1.2 million GPUs. That would potentially make it 30x more powerful than Frontier, the current fastest supercomputer. AMD supplied less than 2% of data center GPUs in 2023.

Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success

Data waste: According to study, a significant portion of stored server data is never accessed

Colossal GPU-style fans installed at Tesla's new Texas data center

PCIe 7.0 achieves impressive 128 GT/s in optical connection demonstration

You can buy a $2.4 million home in Texas with no bedrooms, one bathroom, and a liquid cooling immersion system

Revolutionary 2Tb 3D QLC NAND flash memory die teased by Western Digital

PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 deployment encounters delays