AI Data Centers · Mon 2 Nov

AI data centers are the physical facilities built to house the specialized hardware and networking required to train and run machine learning models. Truncated covers facility design, power sourcing, cooling technologies, infrastructure investments and regional development.

Monday 2 November

Watch Blackstone, Pimco Chiefs Debate the Perils of AI Boom

AI-generated summary Blackstone President Jon Gray and Pimco CEO Emmanuel Roman launched a debate regarding global credit markets and artificial intelligence spending at the HKMA Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit. The discussion focused on whether global credit markets can absorb multitrillion-dollar technology industry spending and the capacity for infrastructure and energy needs.

Envision claims to be running the world's first 800VDC data center in Ulanqab, China

AI-generated summary Green technology firm Envision announced that its Galaxy AI data center in Ulanqab, China, opened in August and has an 800VDC power system running live compute workloads. Envision states that the 800VDC power system combines solid-state transformers, battery energy storage, and direct-current voltage adjustment equipment for computing hardware.

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Inside Anthropic’s Hunt for A.I. Computing Power

AI-generated summary Anthropic has launched dozens of contracts with companies including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and SpaceX to secure more computing power for artificial intelligence. The company needs this computing power to develop new models and deliver products such as the Claude chatbot to businesses and consumers.

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‘A major risk to the global economy’: BofA warns about the risky AI boom the day before a midterm vote framed around data-center backlash

Voters cast ballots at a polling station in Anchorage, Alaska

AI-generated summary BofA Global Research economists warned that a sustained correction in the AI trade is available as a major risk to the global economy. Voters will decide 41 local data-center ballot measures on Tuesday while spending on data-center construction reached $84.95 billion in August.

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‘Bragawatts’ and why all data-center investing isn’t created equal

AI-generated summary Scandinavian private-equity firm EQT has made available a bet that artificial intelligence will continue to require significant power, energy, chips, and data centers. Jean Salata states that energy assets serve as the current limiting factor for artificial intelligence because signing contracts and delivering them with connected power are very different tasks.

Nebul deploys Nvidia GPUs at Datacenter United campus in Belgium

AI-generated summary Nebul plans to expand its European AI cloud leasing capacity into Belgium by contracting a second data center location at the Datacenter United campus in Machelen. The site will host a new SuperCluster with more than 1,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs in GB300 NVL72 systems supplied by Lenovo to meet regional demand.

While Americans turn against data centers, Brazil offers tax breaks and cheap power, representing a potential ‘release valve’ for U.S. constraints

Lula, who won reelection to the Brazilian presidency, signed REDATA into law in September.

AI-generated summary President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva released a law cutting taxes on qualifying data center equipment to make building them less expensive. The government hopes that bringing more computing capacity into the country will help Brazilian businesses develop AI products and rely less on foreign services.

Behind the Curtain: OpenAI's post-election power play

AI-generated summary According to reports, OpenAI is planning a policy and public relations blitz following the midterms to rebrand data centers as AI compute campuses. The effort aims to align the company with Washington changes and frame the artificial intelligence debate for 2028 presidential contenders.

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