AI Data Centers · Wed 11 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.

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Amazon's Computing Boss Says Space Data Centers Won't Be "Feasible Or Practical" For A Decade Even As Musk Believes In 1,300W/m² Heat Dissipation For AI Satellites

AI-generated summary Amazon executive Matt Garman states that space data centers are unlikely to be economically practical within the next decade. Garman identifies launch frequency, rocket payload weights, server serviceability, and heat dissipation as major hurdles for space-based artificial intelligence.

Consortium to develop 400MW hyperscale AI data center in Oman

AI-generated summary A consortium consisting of Mubbadrah, Sustopia Capital, Vela Tech, and O2 Global Energy has announced plans to develop a 400MW AI data center complex in Salalah, Oman, supported by a 3 billion dollar initial investment. Crusoe has indicated potential interest as an off-taker for the project, and O2 Global Energy will develop 400MW of solar generation with battery storage for the facility.

Kioxia has crammed 157 *petabytes* of storage into a single rack, which seems a touch excessive

Lots of Kioxia data center enterprise SSDs arranged in a random fashion

AI-generated summary Kioxia announced a storage density milestone featuring 640 enterprise SSDs chained together to create just over 157 petabytes of storage in a single rack cabinet designed for artificial intelligence data centers. The storage solution was created in collaboration with Dell and amounts to 16 PowerEdge R7725xd servers, each containing 40 Kioxia LC9 Series drives inside one industry-standard 42U server rack.

SpaceX develops its own ‘Kessel’ rack-scale system featuring 72 Nvidia Rubin GPUs for data centers in space, report claims — replaces conventional NVLink cable assemblies with a massive 84-layer printed circuit board

AI-generated summary SemiAnalysis reports that SpaceX/xAI is developing a custom version of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI system codenamed Kessel. The Kessel system features 72 Nvidia Rubin GPUs and replaces conventional NVLink cable assemblies with an 84-layer printed circuit board.

Server CPU strength persists as AMD and Arm gain share: UBS By Investing.com

AI-generated summary UBS reported that third quarter server processor demand remained strong while Advanced Micro Devices and Arm continued to capture market share from Intel. UBS noted that agentic artificial intelligence workloads will require more processors alongside each graphics processing unit, creating a larger long term opportunity for central processing units.

Utah-Based Startup Raises $500 Million for Modular AI Data Center

AI-generated summary Salt Lake City-based Torus announced it secured $500 million in a Series C funding round led by Magnetar. The energy-storage startup will use the capital to manufacture a new shipping container-sized product named Foundry that combines batteries with artificial intelligence computing.

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