he compute power required by AI and HPC is skyrocketing and driving a global transition from 10-15 megawatt data centers to 50-100 megawatt and even gigawatt AI factories. With the next generation AI superchips operating at 2,800 watts and beyond, the amount of heat expected to be generated ….
Survey: 60% of Business Leaders Unsure of Data-AI Readiness
April 23, 2025 by
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.
News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
April 21, 2025 by
Good April morning to you! It’s been an active week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:43) rundown of recent industry news: Nvidia, AMD and China export rules, Intel sells part of FPGA business, storage investments soar, 2nm coming to Taiwan and Arizona
Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the AI Data Center Energy Gap
April 18, 2025 by
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 […]
NVIDIA: Grace Blackwell GPUs on CoreWeave
April 16, 2025 by
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
April 15, 2025 by
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
April 14, 2025 by
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.
April 14, 2025 by
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
April 10, 2025 by
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
April 9, 2025 by
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 ….
