Reykjavik, Iceland – July 12th 2023 — atNorth, a nordic colocation, high-performance computing and AI service provider, has today announced a group income of SEK 560 million (EUR 53 million) as it publishes its 2022 annual accounts. This figure represents a 44 percent increase in revenue from 2021 and further growth is expected in the […]
Kao Data Partners with Zayo to Expand Lit and Dark Fibre Connectivity Options
London, June 26th 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centers for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced it has signed a partnership with Zayo, a global communications infrastructure provider, to expand the connectivity solutions at its data center campus in Harlow, UK. The partnership will see Zayo deploy two new […]
Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option
By Jeff Whitaker, VP Product Strategy and Marketing, Panasas The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall enterprise IT. This growth is not surprising given how […]
IonQ and QuantumBasel Partner on European Quantum Data Center
COLLEGE PARK, MD – June 22, 2023 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced a partnership with Switzerland-based QuantumBasel to jointly establish a European quantum data center. The companies said the transaction is expected to bring two systems, one that will be capable of #AQ 35 followed by another system capable of #AQ […]
Lenovo Reports AI Infrastructure Revenue Exceeded $2B
June 14, 2023 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) announced it has reached record annual AI infrastructure revenue of over US$2 billion and unveiled the next phase of its growth strategy, with an additional US$1 billion investment over three years to accelerate AI deployment for businesses. Fueled by increased global […]
AMD Announces Data Center EPYCs, Releases Instinct Accelerator Details and Software for Generative AI
At a product unveiling event this morning in San Francisco, AMD announced updates to its 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” 5nm data center CPUs and released additional details on its MI300X GPU accelerator for generative AI. The event included keyote remarks from AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, who said AI represents the most significant strategic opportunity for the company, a market AMD expects to grow from $30 billion this year to $150 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 50 percent. Notwithstanding the extensive comments from Su and several of her senior managers this morning about the exploding AI market, they mention GPU market dominator NVIDIA. Though it was obvious by implication that AMD is mounting a major effort to grab GPU market share. On the CPU side, AMD Introduced 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, codenamed “Bergamo,” with 128 Zen 4c cores per socket. AMD said the chips offer the greatest vCPU density and performance for cloud applications, provide up to 2.7x better energy efficiency and support up to 3x more containers per server. In her keynote, Su said Bergamo is the company’s first chip designed specfically for cloud applications.
atNorth Opens Sixth Nordic Data Center
Reykjavík, Iceland – June 9th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced that their third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now fully operational with an initial capacity of 10 MW, following an 11-month build. This brings their total number of operational data centers to six, with one additional site, […]
Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9
According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global Iceland, the colo data center services provider, with a fixed-term of five years maturing in June 2028. According to the story by Greg Rosenvinge of Alliance News, this includes […]