Category: Data Center

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AI Oversight: Senate Steps In

In a close decision, Vice President JD Vance cast the deciding vote to push Trump’s budget forward in the Senate. However, concerns over AI oversight led to the removal of a clause that would prevent states from regulating AI technologies.…

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EU Waves Billions, Tech Giants Listen

The European Union’s initiative to bolster its artificial intelligence prowess has received a rapturous response. With a fund of €20 billion ($23.6 billion) earmarked for constructing AI megafactories, interest has surged. Big names such as Nvidia are expected to benefit…

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Broadcom’s Ambitious AI Market Expansion

The conversation surrounding AI infrastructure is often dominated by GPUs. While GPUs are crucial, it’s the underlying interconnect fabrics that enable their full potential, facilitating the training and execution of models with trillions of parameters. These interconnects operate on multiple…

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Exploring Early Datacenter Networking

The field of datacenter networking has evolved significantly, now filled with advanced technology unimaginable to past system administrators. However, the past held a unique simplicity. Dr. Andrew Herbert, of the UK’s National Museum of Computing, reminisces about the Elliott 900…

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AI Models Echo Beijing Lines in Bias Report

A recent study has found that five prominent AI models exhibit biases favoring narratives supported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The report claims that these AI models censor content displeasing to the CCP, with only one of the AI…

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AI’s Role in Reviving DPU Utilities

In 2013, Amazon Web Services introduced its C3 instance type, vaguely hinting at ‘enhanced networking’ enabled by Intel Virtual Function interfaces. This enhancement involved network cards capable of running workloads such as firewalls and load balancers alongside traditional packet processing.…

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Revolutionizing AI: The Rack-Scale Network

Rack-scale networking is reshaping AI training and inference landscapes by integrating groundbreaking bandwidth capabilities and dense copper cabling layouts, all within a single rack. As systems like Nvidia’s NVLink or AMD’s MI300 emerge, they introduce unparalleled complexity to networking architecture,…

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Hyperscale Boom to Dominate Data Centers by 2030

In a significant shift within the datacenter landscape, hyperscale operators are projected to claim 61% of global datacenter capacity by 2030. This growth is fueled by the robust demand for cloud services and the increasing need for computational power to…

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HPE Aruba’s AI Tackles Network Glitches

HPE has introduced a suite of AI capabilities at its Discover conference, emphasizing agentic AI in network management. Aruba’s networking team is particularly enthusiastic, stating that these AI features are like ‘extra network admins,’ available to assist and optimize operations.…

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Datacenters: Investor’s Dream

Investors are increasingly drawn to datacenters, primarily because of customer retention benefits. ‘At contract expiration, customers often remain at their current datacenter,’ noted an asset firm leader. The burgeoning AI landscape is attracting investors eager to capitalize on rising demand,…

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