CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Microsoft contractors mixed test slabs of lower-carbon concrete at the site of a new data center in Quincy, Wash. Dan DeLong Photo for Microsoft) Microsoft is building 120 new data centers this year alone, and operates more than 300 of the server hubs worldwide. So the Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

(Helion Photo) The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving new demand for cloud computing infrastructure operated by tech giants including Amazon and Microsoft, which are investing billions of dollars each year into the construction of data centers that gobble massive amounts of energy. In the U.S.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2023

GPT-4, which was trained on much more data, and other new models gobble even more power. The GPUs and related electronics are an essential part of computer servers that are housed in data centers. The data centers are where the “cloud” resides. But GPT-3 was only the start. “I see a lot of opportunities.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Another trend that should help fuel growth: The employment of software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers is projected to grow 22% from 2020 to 2030 — “much faster than the average for all occupations,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Karat says its model is better for job candidates, too.

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