Infrastructure
Data centres, interconnect, cloud platforms and the systems that host AI at scale.
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EPA tells Congress data centres use 1.5% of US power
A congressionally mandated EPA report put US data centre electricity use at 61 billion kWh.
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Google signs a 20-year wind contract for its data centres
Google Energy contracted 114 megawatts of Iowa wind for twenty years at a fixed price.
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Amazon rents GPUs by the hour
EC2 added Cluster GPU instances, putting two Tesla M2050s per node on the public cloud.
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Facebook publishes its data centre hardware designs
Facebook released its server, rack and datacentre specifications and founded the Open Compute Project.
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Berkeley Lab finds US data centre power growth flat
LBNL measured 2014 US datacentre use at 70 billion kWh, up 4% over four years.
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OpenAI measures a 300,000x rise in training compute
OpenAI measured a 300,000-fold rise in compute used by the largest training runs since 2012.
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Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI launch an alliance on grid-flexible data centres
A new coalition wants data centres to adjust their power draw in response to. The structure and intent are set out, but…
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AWS rewrites its agent runtime and changes how memory is billed
A new platform version of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore reclaims memory during a session rather than billing peak allocation for its whole life.
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NVIDIA puts megawatt figures behind running AI clusters below full power
NVIDIA has published operating figures for capping GPU power across a cluster, including a megawatt shed in under a minute. Vendor numbers,…
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Regulators block a direct nuclear supply deal
FERC rejects the amended agreement letting Amazon draw power straight from Susquehanna.