Microsoft and Blackrock launch US$ 30 billion AI fund to invest in Data Centers
Technology giant Microsoft, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), and MGX have come together to make investments in new and expanded data centers to meet growing demand for computing power in wake of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom, as well as energy infrastructure to create new sources of power for these facilities. They have formed a […]
Aramco Digital and Groc building mega Inference Data Center in Saudi Arabia
Aramco Digital, the digital and technology subsidiary of Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned petroleum and natural gas company, has recently entered into a partnership with Groc, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Inference company, to set up one of the world’s largest inferencing data centers in Saudi Arabia. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the Global […]
Converge Welcomes SEA-H2X Cable System to Enhance Philippine Connectivity
Converge ICT Solutions Inc., has announced that the Philippine branch of the South-East Asia Hainan-Hong Kong Express Cable System (SEA-H2X) has landed in Bauang, La Union. This significant development marks a step forward in strengthening the Philippines’ digital infrastructure and connectivity within the region. The SEA-H2X is a fiber-optic submarine cable system designed to meet […]
HPC and AI workloads challenge data centre design orthodoxy
The data centre industry is moving so fast that traditional sources of expertise, like consultants, are in some ways lagging behind, according to Vertiv senior director of sales LuLu Shiraz. In her keynote at the Sydney Cloud & Datacenter Convention 2024, she pointed out that today, even adding one GPU-based server is enough to completely […]
Jio outage impacts internet services; data center fire to blame?
On Tuesday, consumers of Reliance Jio’s internet services were left in the lurch when an alleged fire at a data center led to a massive outage. While Reliance itself chalked up the service disruption to “minor technical issues”, Reuters quoted unnamed sources to say that the outage was the result of a fire at a […]