Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. Traditionally in Microsoft data centers, water has been evaporated on-site to reduce the power demand of the cooling systems.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Massive global demand for AI technology is causing data centers to increase spending on servers, power, and cooling infrastructure. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1 His projections account for recent advances in AI and data center efficiency, he says. Much of this growth is due to AI.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Solidigm, a provider of NAND flash solid-state drives, and memory giant Micron have each introduced very high-capacity SSD drives meant for enterprise data centers, particularly in AI use cases. Solidigm intros 122TB PCIe SSD Solidigm unveiled its highest capacity PCIe drive yet, the 122TB Solidigm D5-P5336 data center SSD.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Schneider Electric has introduced AI-ready data center designs aimed at addressing the energy demands and sustainability challenges brought by artificial intelligence (AI). Data centers are the backbone of this AI infrastructure and are the critical enabler of efficiency and decarbonization.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

With all the focus on power consumption, the water consumption of data centers has been somewhat overlooked. Data centers are already wearing out their welcome in certain areas. Data centers need so much water because it is used in a variety of functions.

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

According to a report released this week by Bloom Energy, US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years. The report , based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.

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Network World

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Researchers from Cisco report there are substantial efforts underway now to develop practical quantum networks and data centers. That’s the basic definition of a quantum data center,” Nejabati said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 The Tier 4 data center certificates are awarded by Uptime Institute and not “Uptime Council.”

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

Microsofts new data center designs include acooling systemthat it claims will consume zero water while at the same time offering liquid cooling of the hardware. Still, they serve as an inspiration for other data center designers, notes Alan Howard, senior analyst for data center infrastructure at research firm Omdia.

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The construction of massive data center campuses is booming, with hyperscalers, colocation providers and large enterprises developing new capacity to support the exploding requirements of AI. These are not normal times There has always been growth in data center capacity but never anything like this. TWh to 162.5

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

IBM researchers are developing optical chips that are expected to significantly speed connectivity in data center systems, enabling better performance and lower energy costs for customers that need to build and support AI applications.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. Industry implications The introduction of silicon photonics into AI infrastructure represents a potential shift in how data centers are designed.

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Network World

APRIL 24, 2025

A slowdown in data center lease talks by two of the larger public cloud service providers AWS and Microsoft is unlikely to have an immediate effect on enterprises running advanced workloads in the cloud. The analysts compared the AWS move to a slowdown in data center spending at Microsoft in recent months.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. The fraudulent sales first came to light in January when buyers began inspecting their newly purchased Seagate Exos data center-grade HDDs.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

On the demand side for data centers, large hyperscale cloud providers and other corporations are building increasingly bigger large language models (LLMs) that must be trained on massive compute clusters. Still, several questions remain about DeepSeeks training, infrastructure, and ability to scale, Schneider stated.

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Network World

JUNE 10, 2025

Data centers are the backbone of AI, and Qualcomm is continuing its push to power them. The purchase will help provide what it called “key assets” as Qualcomm expands its data center business, it said in a press release. But there was a lot of data center IP that was equally valuable,” he said.

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Network World

JUNE 3, 2025

Whether it is a hyperscaler or enterprise endeavor, powering a data center is proving to be much more challenging than building one. For hyperscalers like AWS and Google, the primary challenge is to simply to get enough power to the data center. That revolution in new architecture is new data center designs.

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Network World

JUNE 10, 2025

SAN DIEGO – Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) has upgraded critical components of its network family – including switches, routers and software for data center, campus, branch and IoT – in a major effort to deliver the growing capacity and management capabilities its enterprise customers will need for AI environments.

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The chief architect for Intels Xeon server processors has defected to chip rival Qualcomm, which is making yet another run at entering the data center market. If Intel was hoping for a turnaround in 2025, it will have to wait at least a little bit longer.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

He will be replaced by Justin Hotard, who is currently Intels Chief Data Center Officer and has previously held executive positions at technology companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NCR Corporation. Nokia has announced that CEO Pekka Lundmark will step down. He took up the position in 2020.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Space supply in major data center markets increased by 34% year-over-year to 6,922.6 There is a considerable pricing disparity between newly built data centers and legacy facilities, reflecting the premium placed on modern, energy-efficient infrastructure. MW capacity being built at the end of 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.

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Network World

JANUARY 28, 2025

An improvement to the way Linux handles network traffic, developed by researchers at Canadas University of Waterloo, could make data center applications run more efficiently and save energy at the same time. However, he added, in many data center scenarios, server machines run a small number of dedicated server applications.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A report by TD Cowen indicating that Microsoft is reportedly slowing down or possibly redirecting its data center construction plans is tied to the company potentially being in an oversupply position, analysts with the brokerage say. Over the past four years, he said, Microsoft has been leasing more data centers than owning.

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Network World

MAY 6, 2025

Large data centers are necessary for driving next-gen technologies including large language models (LLMs) and generative and agentic AI. Further, cooling technologies can consume up to 40% of the total data center energy demand. However, their environmental challenges are increasingly concerning. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Scaling AI data centers requires testing throughout the design and build process every chip, cable, interconnect, switch, server, and GPU needs to be validated, Keysight says. Scaling AI data centers requires more than component-level validation.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

In large-scale AI data centers with thousands of switches, this equates to hundreds of thousands or even millions of transceivers. The former is built for AI data centers that use Ethernet, while providing significantly more bandwidth than traditional Ethernet setups. The use of CPO translates to a 3.5x

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Forrester IT

MAY 19, 2025

Forrester was invited to the Solutions By The Sea Data Center Vision & Partner Conference, where Eaton spoke about the impact of generative AI, future think anticipating how this changes global energy production, and what it means to the data center.

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Network World

MAY 19, 2025

Average power densitiesthe energy consumption of servers in data center rackshave more than doubled over the past two years, from 8 kilowatts to 17 kilowatts per rack. Most data centers operators say that once rack power density is over 20 kilowatts, air is no longer sufficient to cool them down. Thats just the average.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco has unwrapped a new family of data center switches it says will help customers more securely support large workloads and facilitate AI development across the enterprise. The N9300 Smart Switch series is built on the vendors powerful 4.8T

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Network World

MAY 1, 2025

With data center electricity demand skyrocketing, thanks in large part to the computing requirements of artificial intelligence (AI), analysts are seeing increasing interest in nuclear power. As many as 40% of existing data centers will be operationally constrained by a shortage of power by 2027, Gartner predicts.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Benefits of using small modular reactors Data center power usage is set to surge in the coming years, driven by cloud computing and AI. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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Network World

APRIL 23, 2025

Today, networking access vendor Cloudbrink is claiming it has achieved a new milestone of 300 Gbps data center throughput for its SASE technology. The solution consists of three core components: client software for user devices, a cloud management plane, and optional data center connectors for accessing internal applications.

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Network World

DECEMBER 12, 2024

AMDs Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), meant to protect processor memory from prying eyes in virtual machine (VM) environments, can be tricked into giving access to its encrypted memory contents using a test rig costing less than $10, researchers have revealed.

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Network World

JUNE 2, 2025

supports up to 270 networking ports per NS9 X system, can be clustered with up to 16 other NS9 X5s, and can support 25 GbE network connectivity for modern data center integration and high-throughput applications, according to HPE.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Gartner forecast highlights server sales, which are expected to triple in the coming years as genAI pushes data center systems spending up by 15.5% Gartner’s worldwide IT spending forecast includes the following growth projections: Data center systems: 15.5% trillion by 2025. Devices: 9.5% Communication services: 4.4%

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