Saudi Arabia Unveils AI Deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, AWS

Saudi Arabia announced AI development deals with four leading U.S. technology firms, chip companies NVIDIA and AMD, networking company Cisco and cloud platform Amazon Web Services. The partnerships were formed through the kingdom’s ….

Adaptive Power Systems for the 100kw-Rack AI Data Center

Traditional rack power distribution was historically treated as a commodity — a passive conduit delivering electrons from wall to machine. That thinking is obsolete. Today’s high-performance computing environments demand visibility, control, and adaptability at the point closest to the load.

The AI Factory Heats Up: Liquid Cooling Options Explained

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 ….

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 ….

AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems

On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward integration — or verticalization — of chip makers and the AI factory, defined by at least one company (data center company Vertiv) the AI “unit of compute.” […]