Survey: 60% of Business Leaders Unsure of Data-AI Readiness

A global audit examining the state of data readiness to embrace GenAI value creation finds big companies worldwide are not confident in the quality and usability of their data assets for AI-driven business improvement.

Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the AI Data Center Energy Gap

Even as the HPC-AI sector cheers on more powerful chips, denser servers, faster fabrics, bigger memory and mammoth, multi-hundreds of billion-dollar AI data centers, a voice is whispering in the industry’s ear: “Where’s the electricity for all this?” Good point! It’s generally assumed the data center energy gap will be filled by some combination of […]

AI Data Platform Hammerspace Raises $100M

AI data platform company Hammerspace announced that several venture investors have invested $100 million in growth capital in the company. Altimeter Capital, which inveted in Meta, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Snowflake and Uber, led the Series B round.

NVIDIA: Grace Blackwell GPUs on CoreWeave

NVIDIA announced that GPU cloud platform CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale, with Cohere, IBM and Mistral AI using them for model training and deployment.

Global Survey: 92% of Early Adopters See ROI from AI

AI data cloud company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), in collaboration with Enterprise Strategy Group, today released the “Radical ROI of Generative AI,” a research report surveying 1,900 business and IT leaders across nine different countries — all of whom are actively using AI for one or more use cases.

News Bytes 20250414: Argonne’s AI-based Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode

A happy Tax Day (U.S.) Eve to you! It’s been an eventful week in the HPC-AI industry, here’s a rapid (8:39) run-down of recent news, including: Argonne’s AI-based reactor digital twin, AI factory on the moon?, TSMC may face ….

NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S.

NVIDIA today said it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers — i.e., “AI factories” — entirely in the United States… NVIDIA said that within four years, it plans to produce up to half a trillion dollars worth of AI infrastructure in the U.S. through partnerships ….

European Commission Launches AI Action Plan with 13 AI Gigafactories

The European Commission this week announced an AI Continent Action plan that calls for investments in AI and HPC accompanied by multiple AI factories across Europe. The EC said 13 of these factories are being deployed in conjunction with the continent’s supercomputing ….

Google Launches ‘Ironwood’ TPU for AI Inference

Google today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, “Ironwood,” which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically for inference. Ironwood scales up to 9,216 liquid cooled chips linked via Inter-Chip Interconnect (ICI) networking ….

News Bytes 20250407: Tariffs and the Technology Industry, Intel-TSMC Deal?, DARPA Taps Wafer Scale, Sandia and Laser-Based Cooling, Optical I/O News

Good April day to you! It was a wild week for more than the HPC-AI sector last week, here’s a brief (7:39) look at some key developments: U.S. tariffs, the technology sector and advanced chips, Intel-TSMC ….