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Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ that operate as a low-cost data center
This could potentially hit two birds with one stone — reduce e-waste and reduce data center component demand.
Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens
Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.
Nashville Zoo pushes back on 1.6-acre data center build near animal habitats
The Nashville Zoo is pushing back on a proposed data center build, which would place servers in proximity with animal habitats.
Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers
Premium Astera Labs has shown off the Scorpio X-Series 320-lane PCIe switch that promises to enable vendor-agnostic scale-up capability for AI infrastructure and disaggregated data center infrastructure.
Supermicro shows off Vera Rubin NVL72 rack with all-new type of coolant
Supermicro demonstrates upcoming servers based on AMD’s EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs, MI450 accelerators, and Nvidia’s Vera Rubin-based solutions.
Nvidia offers restricted access to Vera CPU in first round of Linux benchmarks
NVIDIA's new server CPU doesn't win outright in most tests, but it's running very close to AMD's EPYC, which is incredible for a first-generation custom server core from NVIDIA.
Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling
Getting banned Hopper or Blackwell chips into mainland data centers just became exponentially more fraught as Taiwan begins to crack down on smugglers.
Amazon’s Middle East data centers damaged by Iran drone and missile attacks will be down for several months during repairs
Even if the war stops now, Amazon will have to wait months before it can return its Middle East servers back to full operational status.
