China’s optical chip breakthrough boosts AI speed 100-fold using fraction of compute power
Chinese researchers have developed a new all-optical interconnect system linking standard electronic chips, boosting AI distributed inference speeds…
Meta AI Data Center Linked To Rare Bacteria In City’s Water System
An AI data center under construction for has contaminated a local City’s water supply with a rare bacteria.…
Humans: Just a ghost in the machine as artificial intelligence redefines ‘good jobs’ – The Irish Times
Are humans at risk of becoming a “ghost in the machine” as artificial intelligence (AI) redefines good jobs?…
NZ Inc is going all in on AI data centres
The government wants $25-35 billion in data centre investment, and it just gathered some of the country’s most…
The AI Revolution Needs Electricity More Than Intelligence
No generation in human history has experienced an infrastructure buildout of this speed and scale. Over the next…
As AI pushes data centres to breaking point, some Chinese chipmakers bet on SiC
As the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom puts intense pressure on data centre energy grids, some Chinese chipmakers…
Locals affected by Ireland’s AI data centre boom share ‘cautionary tales’
Humming on the outskirts of Dublin, dozens of massive data centres are chewing through more electricity than all…
Exclusive-Nvidia begins Vera CPU sales pitch to Chinese clients, sources say
June 12 (Reuters) – Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its new “Vera” central processors for AI data…
Google rents SpaceX/AI supercomputers for $920M a month, ahead of IPO
Google has made a deal with SpaceX to rent the company’s computing capacity. For this arrangement, Google will…
In the great data centre boom, will the benefits flow offshore again?
On the corner of Mamre Road and the yet-to-be-built South Link Road, in the western Sydney suburb of…
Australia gains access to powerful AI amid questions about readiness
Australia has gained access to a highly advanced artificial intelligence system deemed too dangerous for public release, as…
This week a 60-building data centre by Gensler was unveiled
This week on Dezeen, the first images of a data centre development, which is set to be one…