Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $11.7 million in funding for six collaborative projects looking at the possibilities of quantum computing. The funding will be used to improve our understanding of quantum computing and to develop new hardware and algorithms for scientists
A three-way joint venture called Digital Connexion was formed to develop data centers in India; with Digital Realty, investment firm Brookfield Infrastructure, and Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL).
Cloud provider CoreWeave announced plans for its first Texas data center, with a new $1.6 billion in Plano. The 450,000 square building is expected to be operational by the end of this year. NVIDIA-backed CoreWeave recently secured $200 million in funding, and has significant funds coming in from Microsoft.
Interesting news from Baxtel, saying that according to “Synergy Research Group, hyperscalers and colocation companies are dwarfing on-premise data center capacity. Its research revealed that hyperscalers now account for 37% of the worldwide capacity of all data centers, with the number of large data centers operated by hyperscalers reaching 900.”
Tesla TSLA 0.00%↑ looks like it will spend $1 billion over the next year on its Dojo supercomputer. The company plans to deploy 300,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs by the end of 2024, which will supplement the Dojo supercomputer, which will deploy Tesla’s homegrown D1 chip. On a recent earnings call, Elon Musk said that “We may reach in-house neural net training capability of 100 exaflops by the end of next year.”
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