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 Tech giants are racing to ward off a carbon time bomb caused by the massive data centers they're building around the world.A technique pioneered by Google is gaining currency as more power-hungry artificial intelligence comes online: Using software to hunt for clean electricity in parts of the world with excess sun and wind on the grid, then ramping up data center operations there. Doing so could cut carbon and costs. There's an urgent need to figure out how to run data centers in ways that maximize renewable energy…

Data center services company Equinix is collaborating with NVIDIA to provide private AI with NVIDIA DGX on a fully managed AI data center solution, both companies announced on Wednesday, Jan. 24. Equinix Private AI with NVIDIA DGX is available Jan. 24 in the U.S. and Frankfurt, Germany. Equinix said it will expand to 250 data centers spread across North America, South America, Europe Asia and Africa “soon.” Equinix and NVIDIA announce Private AI with NVIDIA DGX solution The Equinix Private AI with NVIDIA DGX…

The Asia-Pacific data centre market is expected to grow fast for the remainder of this decade. This will be partially due to the deployment of artificial intelligence, which took off in 2023, and will result in higher demands for computing power, in a trend similar to other global regions. To meet demand, regional data centre providers will need to adapt to challenges including the availability and location of data centres, changing regulatory regimes, considerations like power and sustainability, and whether…

Arkon Energy, a data center infrastructure company, closed a $110 million private funding round to expand its operations, the company’s CEO Josh Payne shared exclusively with TechCrunch. The round was led by Bluesky Capital Management and included participation from Kestrel 0x1 and Nural Capital. The company launched in 2021 and began with a 5-megawatt site in Australia. It’s since grown to over 130 megawatts and has expanded into other countries and regions like the U.S. and Europe. “These sites appeal to both…

Akron Energy, a data center infrastructure company, closed a $110 million private funding round to expand its operations, the company’s CEO Josh Payne shared exclusively with TechCrunch. The round was led by Bluesky Capital Management and included participation from Kestrel 0x1, Nural Capital and Florence Capital. The company launched in 2021 and began with a 5-megawatt site in Australia. It’s since grown to over 130 megawatts and has expanded into other countries and regions like the U.S. and Europe. “These sites…

The Intel Core Ultra mobile processor family brings AI to PCs, while 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors offer AI acceleration for data centers. Today at the Intel AI Everywhere event in New York City, Intel announced the general availability of the Intel Core Ultra mobile processor family, delivering faster AI performance for graphic designers, smart factories and more. The 5th Gen Intel Xeon processor family, coming next year to OEMs and cloud service providers, has AI acceleration in all of its cores.…

Popular large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are energy intensive, requiring massive server farms to provide enough data to train the powerful programs. Cooling those same data centers also makes the AI chatbots incredibly thirsty. New research suggests training for GPT-3 alone consumed 185,000 gallons (700,000 liters) of water. An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT basically amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground, according to the new study.…

Intel Corp's former chief architect Raja Koduri is in talks with Hiranandani-backed data center operator Yotta for a deal for his generative artificial intelligence startup, which he said will have a big presence in India. His yet-to-be-named firm would either partner or acquire Yotta, which has data centers in the cities of Mumbai and Noida, said Koduri, whose aim is to challenge Nvidia Corp's grip on the digital movie and video game markets. The company is likely to be launched by the end of the year and will provide AI…

New Delhi: US chipmaker Intel hosted an investor webinar on Wednesday, where it underlined that its…

Elon Musk's orders were clear: Close the data center. Early on Christmas Eve, members of the billionaire's staff flew to Sacramento, California - the site of one of Twitter's three main computing storage facilities - to disconnect servers that had kept the social network running smoothly. Some employees were worried that losing those servers could cause problems, but saving money was the priority, according to two people who were familiar with the move but not authorized to talk about it. The data center shutdown was one…