Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong? Kettle Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 26
Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling 30th birthday post reveals 2004 disaster movie continues to influence company strategy On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 5
Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power? Analysis Three words: Cheap, reliable, power Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 67
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Systems26 Sep 2023 |
Facing a 30% price rise to park servers in a colo? Blame AI Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace On-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 3
Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them And they're all tailored for efficiency Systems20 Sep 2023 | 11
Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4
Schneider Electric warns that existing datacenters aren't buff enough for AI You're going to need liquid-cooled servers, 415V PDUs, two-ton racks, and plenty of software management On-Prem19 Sep 2023 | 11
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade Systems18 Sep 2023 | 11
Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 21
d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models Microsoft among in-memory AI chip startup's backers AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 3
Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs HPC02 Sep 2023 | 19
Demand for datacenter capacity in Europe sees busiest Q2 ever 'Pre-leasing' also on the up as customers try to grab space in bit barns as they're being built Systems01 Sep 2023 | 2
Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters Analysis If you thought a 700W GPU was hot, imagine what it takes to keep racks full of 15kW accelerators cool On-Prem18 Aug 2023 | 15
Virginia industrial park wants to power DCs with mini nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen It's buzzword bingo: The datacenter sustainability edition On-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 16
Why securing East-West network traffic is so important – and how it can be done Systems Approach You don't want to hand your datacenter over to an intruder quite so easily Networks16 Aug 2023 | 14
Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers' Meanwhile, in China, electric auto outfit emphasizes local bit barn for storage Off-Prem15 Aug 2023 | 19
Let's play... Force off the power to someone else's datacenter systems DEF CON Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 14
Digital Realty: We hear you like your racks dense, how does 70kW sound? What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW? On-Prem08 Aug 2023 | 6
AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94% Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su On-Prem02 Aug 2023 | 2
Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024 AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 5
Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will Utility to consider introducing restrictions On-Prem27 Jul 2023 | 115
Our AI habit is making us less environmentally friendly, Google admits Just 6% of the water it consumed last year was replenished, report says On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 14
Too many bytes and not enough bricks for datacenters More than 3,000 needed to meet demand, and that won't be easy, says Aggreko On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 46
Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light Updated How does more natural gas consumption contribute to Redmond's eco dream? On-Prem22 Jul 2023 | 51
Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 7
Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city? 100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google Sysadmin Month15 Jul 2023 | 73
Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris 'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 |
Datacenter industry sees demand growing, but so are energy costs You gotta spend money to make money – and where are all the staff? On-Prem11 Jul 2023 | 1
AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B Still the most profitable arm of Bezos's biz PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
AMD's 128-core Epycs could spell trouble for Ampere Computing Analysis We still have more cores, exec sniffs Systems21 Jun 2023 | 15
DC thermal management, power kit is getting easier to find and a lot more expensive Expect to pay anywhere from 10-20 percent more, analysts tell El Reg On-Prem16 Jun 2023 | 3
Intel details coral-shaped immersion cooler that bubbles like Mentos in Coke In the future, you may boil your servers to keep them happy Systems15 Jun 2023 | 15
DoD networks Amazon's off-grid DCs using SES's new MEO sats TLA WTF IMO The Reg in Space12 Jun 2023 |
How do you boost server efficiency? Buy new kit, keep it busy Increase in efficiency between 2017 and 2019 hardware is 34% for Intel servers, 140% for AMD, claims report On-Prem09 Jun 2023 | 17
Bit barn biz Cyxtera files for Chapter 11, hopes to bounce back after reboot Overseas subsidiaries unaffected, sale still on the table On-Prem06 Jun 2023 |
What supply chain crisis? Supermicro lifts rack-scale system production Computex CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it Systems02 Jun 2023 | 2
What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig Comment Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip? Systems01 Jun 2023 |
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers Keep that hype train rolling, please AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1
Look mom, no InifiniBand: Nvidia’s DGX GH200 glues 256 superchips with NVLink Computex Unless you need more nodes HPC29 May 2023 | 3
When it comes to liquid and immersion cooling, Nvidia asks: Why not both? Promises demo of new ways to chill out in the datacenter by 2026 Systems26 May 2023 | 2
Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing Systems19 May 2023 | 3
Ampere heads off Intel, AMD's cloud-optimized CPUs with a 192-core Arm chip Just don't look too closely at the benchmarks Systems18 May 2023 | 19
Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained Feature Magnets, not lasers, could be secret to endless power (if it actually works) Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week17 May 2023 | 77
It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start Hint: Greener gear is only the half of it Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week16 May 2023 | 5
To quench AI's thirst, the way we build, operate datacenters needs to change AI infrastructure isn't just hot and power hungry, it's uses a prodigous amount of water researchers tell El Reg Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7
Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028 How complicated can fusion be, really? Science12 May 2023 | 18
Money starts to flow as liquid cooling gets hot in datacenters Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M On-Prem10 May 2023 |
Spectre of layoffs looms over Intel following dismal sales Shareholders gotta get their dividends somehow, right? On-Prem09 May 2023 | 4
A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least Don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised HPC03 May 2023 | 22
Intel's $2.8B Q1 loss and 36 percent revenue slide were slightly less horrible than expected Updated CEO Gelsinger insists plan to grow a whopping foundry business will pay off On-Prem28 Apr 2023 | 5
Broadcom chases AI craze with ML-tuned switch ASICs Faster GPUs don't mean much if you've got a network bottleneck Systems20 Apr 2023 |
Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going? There's a cost, and operators are worried it will fall on them Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week20 Apr 2023 | 58
European datacenters worried they can't get cheap, reliable juice UK operators are sweating about price, Nordics chill thanks to low ambient temperatures Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 58
Digital Realty lines up hefty solar, wind projects for APAC datacenters Not enough to meet the whole energy suck of sites, but 200 tonnes of CO2 nothing to sniff at Energy Efficient Datacenters16 Apr 2023 | 2
LiquidStack CEO on why you shouldn't ignore immersion cooling Interview Depending on use case, the efficiency gains can be significant Energy Efficient Datacenters14 Apr 2023 | 15
Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages Think the news has execs at Microsoft 365 or AWS quaking in their boots? Networks14 Apr 2023 | 10
Intel pulls plug on server system design division Blueprints flogged off to Taiwan's MiTAC On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 5
OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems Air by itself just doesn't cut it anymore Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 10
Fortinet's latest firewall promises hyperscale security while sipping power Need more speed? Just stuff it with custom ASICs Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 4
It's time to stop fearing CPU power management Feature It's (probably) not going to kill your latency and it could save you a buck Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 11
Cloud can reduce greenhouse emissions, but don't assume it's automatic Organizations can't outsource environmental challenges, warns Gartner Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 5