Topic: ai workloads
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AI's Data Center Dilemma: Balancing Growth and Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI is driving unprecedented growth in data center construction, creating a need to balance computational demands with energy efficiency and reduced ecological impact. Investment in data center infrastructure has reached historic levels, with major tech companies like Micros...
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AI's Growth Tests Data Center Sustainability, Says GlobalData
The rapid expansion of data centers is driven by AI workloads and the need for sustainable operations, leading to environmental challenges like high electricity use and water consumption. Investment in data center infrastructure has reached historic levels, with major tech firms like Microsoft an...
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NetApp StorageGRID 12.0: Supercharge AI & Data Workloads
StorageGRID 12.0 is a software-defined object storage platform designed to handle modern unstructured data, with enhancements for AI workloads, security, and management. It introduces advanced caching and up to twenty times higher throughput for AI and high-performance computing, along with bucke...
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Snowflake's 32% Growth Defies Tech Slowdown, Proves Data Infrastructure Resilient
Snowflake's revenue grew 32% year-over-year, highlighting strong demand for data infrastructure despite broader tech budget constraints. AI is a key driver, influencing half of new customer acquisitions and a quarter of use cases on Snowflake's platform. The company's innovations, such as Cortex ...
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Cassava & Accenture to Build Africa's Sovereign AI Cloud
Cassava Technologies and Accenture are partnering to establish Africa's sovereign AI cloud, enabling businesses to process AI workloads while keeping data within their own countries to comply with local regulations. The initiative will utilize Cassava's GPU-as-a-service infrastructure and Accentu...
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Tech Giants Unite on Open Source Database to Cut Costs and Lock-In
Major cloud providers are collaborating on an open-source document database initiative, hosted by the Linux Foundation, to reduce costs and prevent vendor lock-in for AI applications. DocumentDB is built as an extension of PostgreSQL, leveraging its mature ecosystem while adding support for docum...
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Seagate Exos M 30TB HDD Review: HAMR Tech Revitalizes Enterprise Storage
Seagate's Exos M 30TB hard drive uses innovative heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology to achieve a new storage density high, surpassing the previous 24TB limit. The drive offers sustained transfer rates of 275 MB/s and is available in CMR and SMR variants, with capacities up to 36TB...
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Kioxia Unveils 5TB Flash Prototype for Faster AI and Edge Computing
Kioxia has developed a 5TB flash memory prototype with 64GB/s bandwidth to meet the demands of AI and edge computing, offering a strong alternative to DRAM. The prototype uses a daisy-chain architecture and PAM4 signaling to achieve high capacity and throughput while maintaining power efficiency ...
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OpenAI Partners with Broadcom to Develop Custom AI Chips
OpenAI is developing its first custom AI chip with Broadcom, set for production next year, to reduce reliance on Nvidia and manage rising computational needs. The partnership involves a $10 billion investment from OpenAI, as confirmed by insiders, though both companies have not officially comment...
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