Category: Data Center

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AI’s Impact on Phone Resale

Smartphone manufacturers often highlight the benefits of AI, but there’s growing concern these features may undermine resale value. UK-based Compare and Recycle states that the Samsung Galaxy S25 depreciated by 63% in one year. This bucks the trend of gradually…

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Intel Supports SambaNova’s $350M AI Challenge

AI infrastructure innovator SambaNova has secured $350 million to propel its dataflow architecture forward, presenting it as a competitive alternative to conventional GPU-driven AI systems. The investment includes participation from Intel Capital, dismissing rumors of an acquisition by Intel. Other…

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Altman Challenges AI’s Energy Critics

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, believes criticism of AI’s energy usage is disproportionate. He argues that human civilization has consumed massive resources over millennia, often ignored in comparisons with artificial intelligence. Speaking at the AI Summit in India, Altman emphasized…

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HDDs Vanish Amid AI Boom

The surge in AI infrastructure demands has led to a complete sell-out of hard drives for the year, with hyperscale companies capturing the entire stock. Leading manufacturers like Seagate and Western Digital report their production capacities have been fully allocated…

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Reliance Jio’s Ambitious AI Expansion with $110 Billion Investment

Reliance Jio, India’s leading telecom operator, intends to invest $110 billion in building robust AI infrastructure. Since its inception, Jio has revolutionized India’s telecom sector by providing affordable services that quickly gained market dominance. The company now aims to replicate…

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Google’s Bold Geothermal Dive

With the exponential increase in data center energy demands, brought on by the AI surge, tech companies are seeking creative solutions to prevent their energy-intensive operations from reaching energy constraints. One potential solution lies just beneath the Earth’s surface. This…

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AI Revives Enterprise Storage

Artificial intelligence has long simplified stories: models grow, GPUs accelerate, and storage fades into the backdrop. In initial AI projects, most budget allocations went into computing, followed by networking, leaving storage as a minimal consideration. This was practical when early…

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GOV.UK Chatbots: Polite But Unreliable

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has conducted an extensive study revealing that artificial intelligence chatbots often provide excessively verbose responses when addressing questions related to government services. Researchers assessed responses from 11 large language models (LLMs) to over 22,000 inquiries,…

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EU Halts AI on Lawmakers’ Devices

In response to concerns about data security, the European Parliament has disabled AI functionalities on lawmakers’ devices. This decision follows an alert from the IT department, which could not ensure that data processed via AI features would be secure. The…

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Micron’s PCIe 6.0 SSDs Tailored for AI

With each technological leap, data storage capabilities surge forward. Although the promise of Micron’s PCIe 6.0 SSDs heralds breakthrough transfer rates of 28 GB/s, these innovations are not yet poised for mainstream devices. Engineered with AI demands in mind, these…

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