 | Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers
2024-04-23 [theregister.co.uk]
Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank
Datacenter biz Digital Realty is to let facilities in Ireland feed energy back to the electricity grid when needed, helping to smooth out variability in supply, cut CO2 emissions and provide an additional revenue stream. Details >
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| OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters
2024-04-22 [theregister.co.uk]
$20m to keep the industry from having to rely on fossil fuels
Solar energy company Exowatt has launched with the financial support of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alongside two other investors. Details >
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| More than a third of enterprise datacenters expect to deploy liquid cooling by 2026
2024-04-22 [theregister.co.uk]
Which one of you is already running 100-plus kilowatt racks?
Survey As CPUs and GPUs grow ever denser and power-hungry, many, including Register readers, expect liquid cooling to play a larger role in enterprise datacenters over the next few years. Details >
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| AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold
2024-04-19 [theregister.co.uk]
No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity
US energy provider Exelon has calculated that power demand from datacenters in the Chicago area is set to increase ninefold, in more evidence that AI adoption is will put further strain electricity supplies. Details >
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| Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle
2024-02-28 [theregister.co.uk]
Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right
Using waste heat from datacenters for district heating makes sense from an environmental standpoint, yet there are implementation challenges and potential pitfalls introduced with any government regulations covering it. Details >
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| Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters
2024-01-23 [theregister.co.uk]
Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors
Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels. Details >
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| Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst
2023-12-13 [theregister.co.uk]
Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans
AI and the chips that run it are so hot right now. Details >
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| Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes
2023-11-28 [theregister.co.uk]
Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames?
Datacenter infrastructure biz Vertiv is offering a wooden version of its prefabricated modular structures, claiming these have a reduced carbon footprint compared to steel alternatives. Details >
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| UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters
2023-11-06 [theregister.co.uk]
A load of hot air?
The UK government is stumping up Details >
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| Microsoft seeking robots to help automate datacenters
2023-10-16 [theregister.co.uk]
Redmond runs ad to hire fleshbag team manager to make the magic happen
Microsoft is on the hunt for a team manager with robotics experience to work on the automation of datacenter operations, just weeks after blaming an outage at its Australia facility on having insufficient staff available. Details >
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| Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed
2023-10-02 [theregister.co.uk]
Skills shortage is also holding industry back, survey finds
The datacenter industry is caught between conflicting demands: the pressure to deliver projects faster, while product and skills shortages lead to delays. Details >
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| Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters
2023-08-18 [theregister.co.uk]
If you thought a 700W GPU was hot, imagine what it takes to keep racks full of 15kW accelerators cool
Analysis The mad dash to secure and deploy AI infrastructure is forcing datacenter operators to reevaluate the way they build and run their facilities. Details >
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| Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI
2023-07-28 [theregister.co.uk]
CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024
Microsoft is betting big on generative AI by spending many billions of dollars more on building datacenter capacity in anticipation of a rapid uptick in demand from paying customers, expected to start in anger from calendar 2024. Details >
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| Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will
2023-07-27 [theregister.co.uk]
Utility to consider introducing restrictions
Thames Water is considering measures to cut down the water used by some datacenters, including fitting flow restrictors or charging operators more at peak times. Details >
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| Money starts to flow as liquid cooling gets hot in datacenters
2023-05-11 [theregister.co.uk]
Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M
Liquid cooling has become a hot topic as processors and other datacenter kit consume ever more power and generate more heat that needs to be dissipated. Yet perhaps the clearest sign that the tech is set to become a growth area is when investors start throwing their money around. Details >
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| Global Intelligent PDU Strategic Market Report 2023: Rise in Modular Datacenters to Spur Market Demand
2023-02-11 [news.yahoo.com]
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| Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure
2022-12-16 [theregister.co.uk]
Cancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month
Meta has canned two datacenters under development in Denmark as part of a broader plan to deepen investments in artificial intelligence. Details >
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