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Emerald AI Raises $24.5M to Power Grid-Responsive AI Data Centers
📅 - Emerald AI, a new player in the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, has officially launched with $24.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Radical Ventures and included NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, alongside AMPLO, CRV, and Neotribe.
The launch is backed by high-profile individual investors such as Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, and AI pioneer Professor Fei-Fei Li.
Emerald AI enters the market at a pivotal time when the energy demands of AI-driven data centers are increasing at an unprecedented rate. According to projections, new data [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Gcore Powers Dune: Awakening’s LATAM Launch for Funcom - Funcom's latest multiplayer survival game, Dune: Awakening, is enjoying a robust global rollout thanks in part to its technical partnership with edge infrastructure provider Gcore. The collaboration between the Norway-based game studio and the Luxembourg-headquartered technology firm is particularly notable in the Latin American (LATAM) region, where infrastructure limitations have historically hindered premium online gaming experiences.
Gcore, known for its edge AI, cloud, network, and cybersecurity solutions, has provided the foundational infrastructure for the LATAM deployment of Dune: Awakening. The game, which launched to impressive fanfare, quickly topped Steam's bestseller chart [...]
📅 - AWS Direct Connect Now Live at Digital Realty Athens Campus - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected Digital Realty's Athens data center campus as the newest location for AWS Direct Connect, marking a significant step in enhancing cloud access in Southeast Europe. The addition of the on-ramp at Digital Realty's ATH3 facility enables enterprises in the region to establish low-latency, secure, and private connections to AWS's Mediterranean Region, bypassing the public internet entirely.
Digital Realty, a global provider of carrier-neutral data centers and interconnection solutions, is expanding its AWS connectivity footprint as demand grows for hybrid IT architectures. The Athens deployment joins 17 other AWS Direct Connect locations on Digital [...]
📅 - Direct-to-Chip Cooling Rises with Data Center Power Demands - As data centers around the world adapt to the growing demands of artificial intelligence, edge computing, and environmental sustainability, direct-to-chip cooling is rapidly emerging as a critical enabler of next-generation digital infrastructure.
According to a new industry forecast covering the period from 2024 to 2031, the global direct-to-chip cooling market is set to grow from USD 1.24 billion to USD 2.13 billion, representing a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.5%.
This projected expansion reflects the increasing importance of precision thermal management in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. With data-intensive workloads proliferating, traditional [...]
📅 - RETN Boosts Italian Network with Milan–Padua High-Speed Fiber Route - Global network services provider RETN has unveiled a new fiber optic route connecting Milan and Padua, strengthening its national infrastructure and enhancing low-latency connectivity as part of its broader expansion strategy in Italy.
The newly launched 360-kilometer line integrates into RETN's 140,000-kilometer global network and is engineered for performance. According to the company, the Milan to Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo) segment is now the shortest and most optimized link available on the market—a key advantage for latency-sensitive sectors such as financial services.
The route is anchored by key Points of Presence at Milan's Caldera Campus and Padua's VSIX internet exchange, with [...]
📅 - Hurricane Electric Adds Paducah, KY PoP at Quad State Internet - Over 15 million end consumers across a 225-mile radius, including markets in and around St. Louis, MO, Indianapolis, IN, Chicago, IL, and Nashville, TN, can now access the internet directly thanks to Quad State Internet PAH1. Additionally, the facility offers colocation, wavelength access, and dark fiber to companies and organizations.
Hurricane Electric's first facility in Kentucky is this PoP. It will give next-generation IP connectivity services to businesses in the greater Paducah area with better fault tolerance, load balancing, and congestion control.
Hurricane Electric President Mike Leber expressed his excitement about the opportunity to increase access in Kentucky and the [...]
📅 - Prevent Downtime and Fire Risk with leagend’s UPS BMS Technology - – As data centers increasingly become the critical hubs of digital infrastructure, their operational stability hinges on two core pillars: computing power and power security. Amid rising global demand for uninterrupted data services, leagend's UPS Battery Management Solution (BMS) emerges as a cutting-edge answer to the vulnerabilities associated with backup power systems.
Data centers rely on a multi-layered power supply strategy that includes utility power, generators, and UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) systems. While utility outages and generator failures are not uncommon, it's the failure of backup batteries—often the last line of defense—that can lead to catastrophic disruptions, [...]
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