Options Technology Chooses atNorth for Private Cloud Expansion
📅 - Capital markets infrastructure supplier Options Technology has partnered with atNorth, the Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit datacenter provider, to house its enlarged private AI solution at atNorth's ICE02 data center in Iceland.
The fast adoption of AI for trading techniques, risk management, and data analytics has led to a rise in the need for high-density computing capacity from financial institutions, including hedge funds, investment banks, and proprietary trading firms. This has resulted in the expansion of options infrastructure.
The company wants to fill a void in the market for private cloud infrastructure that is especially designed to meet the needs of the [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Digital Realty Adds Sustainable, AI-Ready Facility in Amsterdam - Digital Realty has expanded its presence in the Netherlands with the launch of AMS11, a new AI-optimized and sustainability-focused data center in Amsterdam. The opening adds significant capacity to the company's global PlatformDIGITAL footprint and comes at a time when the Amsterdam region - one of Europe's key digital gateways - continues to balance strong demand for data center growth with local regulatory constraints.
"This opening underscores our commitment to delivering scalable, sustainable, and connected data center capacity in key markets," said Paula Cogan, Managing Director for EMEA at Digital Realty.AMS11 brings approximately 27 MW of IT load across 12,000 square meters of [...]
📅 - NVIDIA CEO Rejects AI Bubble, Predicts Enduring Demand - NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang pushed back firmly against mounting speculation that the global surge in data center spending signals the emergence of an AI bubble, telling investors on the company's latest earnings call that the fundamentals driving demand are not only real but accelerating.
His comments come amid unprecedented investment in GPU-powered infrastructure, which has fueled NVIDIA's valuation to roughly $4.5 trillion and elevated its hardware to the center of virtually every major AI deployment worldwide.
Some market watchers have questioned whether hyperscalers, AI labs, and enterprises are overshooting long-term demand by building massive GPU clusters at breakneck speed.
Jensen [...]
📅 - AMD, Cisco, HUMAIN Launch Saudi Arabian AI Infrastructure Venture - AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN, a Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund–backed (PIF) AI infrastructure company, have unveiled plans to form a joint venture that aims to accelerate Saudi Arabia's emergence as a global hub for large-scale artificial intelligence computing.
The initiative, announced today, positions the three companies as founding investors in a new entity expected to begin operations in 2026, with the ambition to deploy up to 1 GW of AI infrastructure across the Kingdom by 2030.
The joint venture plans to integrate HUMAIN's modern data center footprint with AMD's high-performance computing technology and Cisco's critical networking infrastructure. AMD and Cisco will serve as [...]
📅 - Supermicro Unveils Air-Cooled Server for Advanced AI Workloads - Supermicro has introduced a new air-cooled 10U AI server built around AMD's Instinct MI355X GPUs, targeting organizations that want high-performance AI acceleration without transitioning to liquid-cooling infrastructure. The new Supermicro AI server, unveiled at the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis is now shipping.
The launch would reflect intensifying competition among OEMs aiming to meet surging demand for AI-optimized hardware from cloud providers and enterprise buyers.
Supermicro says the new server delivers up to 35 times higher inferencing performance and up to four times the AI compute throughput compared with its previous generation. Key upgrades include 288 GB of HBM3e [...]
📅 - IBM and Cisco Advance Distributed Quantum Computing for 2030s Networks - IBM and Cisco have outlined an ambitious plan to pioneer the foundations of networked distributed quantum computing, targeting early proofs of concept by the early 2030s. The collaboration brings together IBM's progress in developing large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers and Cisco's quantum networking research, with the shared goal of enabling quantum systems to operate together across networks.
If successful, the effort could form the technical basis of a future quantum computing Internet.
Under the current plan, the companies aim within five years to demonstrate a network capable of linking multiple large-scale quantum computers so they can jointly execute workloads across tens [...]
📅 - CleanArc Breaks Ground on 900MW Hyperscale Data Center in Virginia - CleanArc Data Centers has broken ground on a 900-megawatt hyperscale campus in Caroline County, Virginia, marking one of the largest single data center developments announced on the U.S. East Coast. The flagship VA1 campus is positioned to serve soaring demand for hyperscale compute, cloud platforms and AI infrastructure.
CleanArc plans to bring the first 300MW of grid power online in the first quarter of 2027, followed by another 300MW by 2030 and a final tranche of 300MW between 2033 and 2035. With nearly one gigawatt of planned capacity, the company is targeting major cloud and AI operators that require both large-scale density and long-term expansion paths.
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