Hyperscalers hotwire EV tech for AI data centre binge
Google, Meta and Microsoft push 1MW rack dreams with borrowed volts
Google, Microsoft, and Meta are pilfering ideas from the electric vehicle world, pushing 400VDC systems to wrestle with escalating power and cooling demands.
Infineon teams with Nvidia for AI data centre power overhaul
HVDC setup ditches clunky PSUs aiming for one megawatt racks
Infineon is shoving a cattle prod into the outdated power architecture of AI data centres with a high-voltage jolt. Teaming up with Nvidia, the chipmaker is ditching the feeble, cluttered PSU swarm for a centralised 800V high-voltage DC power setup.
Qualcomm drags itself back into the data centre racket
Once more into the breach
Qualcomm has decided it wants another crack at the data centre business, this time hoping Nvidia’s AI-laced coat-tails will carry it past previous failures.
Amazon quietly cools off global data centre ambitions
Joining rival Microsoft in a conservative approach
Amazon Web Services has started dragging its heels on some data centre leases, particularly internationally, signalling that even the cloud titans are feeling the pinch as economic headwinds and tariff chatter rattles the tech sector.
Microsoft confirms ditching $1 billion Ohio data centre dreams
Trump’s tariff tantrum sends Vole scurrying
The Software King of the World, Microsoft has confirmed that it is binning its $1 billion data centre plans for Ohio, quietly folding under pressure from Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s latest wave of tech tariffs.
AMD is kicks Intel in the data centres
Makes its eyes water
Buried in AMD’s results on Tuesday was an overlooked number that should put the fear of Zeus into Intel: the company managed to outsell Intel in the data centre space for the first time in history.
Super Micro says Nvidia’s Blackwell is on the way
Nvidia shares rebound
Shares in Nvidia picked up after a key partner, Super Micro Computer, said its new AI data centre systems powered by Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chips are ready to ship.
Bitcoin farmers are moving to AI processing
More money
Bitcoin farmers are finding that AI processing might be a little more lucrative.
Boffins save 30 per cent on data centre power bills
Made some minor changes to Linux code
A team of boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a string of Linux code that they think can save 30 per cent on a data centre's power bill.
Data centres create more work
For electricians
While everyone+dog has been talking about new jobs that AI will create, it appears that the career of electrician is suddenly becoming one with a future.