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Why veterans can excel in data centers – and could help the IT sector address its skill shortages
When the worst case scenario is a mortar attack, IT industry stressors are significantly less dire. That’s one of the reasons why Bryan Marlatt, chief regional officer at CyXcel, says that former military members can excel at IT roles, including those like his in the data center. Having held various roles in the IT sector since leaving the US Army,…
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Colt Technology sells eight European data centers
Colt Technology Services is selling eight European data centers to Netherlands-based NorthC, saying it wants to focus on building sustainable digital infrastructure. The data centers – located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and two in London – formed part of the assets Colt gained with its acquisition of Lumen EMEA in 2023. Between them, the data centers have…
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Tariff war throws building of data centers into disarray
Forrester’s bottom line? “Because of the long term planning and all of the potential policy changes, I wouldn’t change my data center plans that much,” Nguyen said. Confusion reigns Every day it seems, the tariff situation becomes muddier. For example, according to a fact sheet released Wednesday, the White House has temporarily exempted semiconductors from tariffs, but not the aluminum…
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OpenAI, Google AI data centers are under stress after new genAI model launches – Computerworld
Google has built its AI infrastructure on its homegrown TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) — custom-built chips tuned to run Gemini. The TPUs are different from GPUs, which can run a wide range of AI, graphics and scientific applications. The problems with surging demand are a reminder for enterprises to secure stable computing capacity to prevent AI downtimes, said Jim McGregor,…
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TSMC’s $100B Investment in US Data Centers Sets Foreign Investment Record
Image: Wikimedia Commons/TrickHunter Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has pledged to spend an additional $100 billion building data centres in the U.S., bringing total spend up to $160 billion. The investment will go into building three new fabrication plants in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as two packaging facilities and a research center. TSMC has dubbed it the “largest single foreign direct…
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Nuclear data centers are a waste of time – even as AI power demand skyrockets
Plentiful energy is in sight – we’re entering into what some clean tech experts have dubbed the ‘era of energy abundance’. As tech companies consider more green data centers and clean power to meet spiking generative AI energy demands and rapid data center expansion, some have turned back to nuclear power as the answer. Some of the biggest names in…
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Data centers are growing in size and number as AI prompts widespread global expansion
Data centers will continue to surge in both size and number according to early reports in 2025, building on the trend of outlooks published last year. The average capacity of hyperscale data centers set to open between now and 2029 will be almost double that of current facilities, according to research from Synergy Research Group. While the critical IT load…
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CoreWeave’s first two UK data centers are now operational
CoreWeave has opened its first two new data centers in the UK, with the company revealing they’ll host some of Europe’s largest Nvidia AI platform deployments. Powered by Nvidia H200 GPUs and scaled with Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, the first went live in October 2024 in Crawley with partner Digital Realty, whilst the second went live in December 2024 in…
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America’s biggest chain of opioid treatment centers hacked by ransomware gang, SSNs and treatment info breached
BayMark Health Services this week confirmed it notified an undisclosed number of patients about a September 2024 data breach that compromised the following info: Names Social Security numbers Driver’s license numbers Dates of birth Services received Dates of service Insurance info Treatment provider Treatments Diagnostic info BayMark operates hundreds of opioid treatment clinics and programs across the US and Canada.…
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Microsoft to Invest $80 Billion in AI Data Centers in Fiscal 2025
Generative AI products have sparked a surge in data center development. Microsoft is continuing this trend with plans to invest $80 billion in fiscal year 2025 to build AI-enabled data centers, the company revealed in a recent blog post. “Not since the invention of electricity has the United States had the opportunity it has today to harness new technology to…
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