02/04/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Microsoft, Cadence, Switch, HPE, CyberSecurity
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Microsoft buys 377 acres of Iowa farmland for $40 million. In what I’ll call their 4th data center campus area just a little south and west of Des Moines, Microsoft is going to make this Azure Central US region a big one. They cover the SW area, the Apple campus is just west of Des Moines, and the Facebook campus is northeast of Des Moines.
[Link] Cadence unveils Millenium platform, a hardware/software accelerated digital twin solution for multiphysics system design and analysis. Cadence says Millenium includes graphics processing units (GPUs) from leading providers, extremely fast interconnections, and an enhanced Cadence high-fidelity CFD software stack optimized for GPU acceleration and generative AI.
[Link] Switch reveals plans to expand its data center footprint in Austin, Texas by 300,000 square feet.
[Link] The US says it disrupted a China cyber threat that targeted water treatment plants, the electrical grid, and transportation systems across the United States.
[Link] This is pretty cool technology. Exodigo, a provider of non-intrusive subsurface imaging solutions for transportation, energy, utilities, and construction customers, has announced that it will provide the accurate, complete subsurface maps needed to improve undergrounding processes for power lines as part of the Grid Overhaul with Proactive, High-speed Undergrounding for Reliability, Resilience, and Security (GOPHURRS) program led by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
[Link] HPE announced it will build energy provider Eni’s HPC6, a next-generation supercomputer to deliver artificial intelligence, modeling, and simulation capabilities to sustain the path to energy transition. HPC6 will be built with HPE Cray EX4000 systems featuring AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct accelerators.
[Link] Los Alamos National Laboratory and D-Wave researchers discover new insights into quantum fluctuations and ordered states.
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