01/21/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Artificial Intelligence, Energy industry indicators, Digital Twins
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
Betting on Artificial Intelligence
➡️[Link] AI was a big topic at Davos's World Economic Forum last week. CNBC talked with Anirudha Jalan of Recykal, Jeff Maggioncalda of Coursera, and Jack Hidary of SandboxAQ about the playbook for an AI-led future.
➡️[Link] SandboxAQ and Accenture announced a collaboration to help organizations protect data against AI-driven cyber threats and quantum-based decryption attacks.
➡️[Link] Microsoft and Vodafone launched a 10-year strategic partnership to bring generative AI, digital services, and the cloud to more than 300 million businesses and consumers.
➡️[Link] Rackspace announced Rackspace AI Anywhere for Private Cloud, a solution that harnesses AI and Machine Learning in a secure environment. AI Anywhere leverages an AI software stack with the latest generation AI-optimized hardware and support services based on an organization’s AI strategy.
Industry signals and indicators. This week I read two things that shed some light on how things are going in the industry:
➡️[Link] U.S. Power infrastructure tested by ongoing component shortages. Power Grids are still short on transformers.
➡️[Link] Vertiv projects doubling of global manufacturing capacity for switchgear, busway and integrated modular solutions to support increased demand.
[Link] I love the topic of digital twins. Last week NVIDIA posted a story about the CEO of startup Green Gravity and how it is prototyping an ambitious vision from the CEO, in a warehouse 60 miles south of Sydney, Australia, and simulating it in NVIDIA Omniverse.
[Link] Rescale's AI-Powered R&D Platform Introduces Sustainable Accelerated Computing through partnership with Crusoe at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
[Link] Visual Capitalist - a nice article and excellent visual on: Ranked: Top 50 Data Center Markets by Power Consumption.
[Link] Data Center Frontier: Data Center Liquid Cooling Platform, Program Innovation Heats Up. Aligned Data Centers launches DeltaFlow cooling technology.
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