Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
Google announced it will invest $350 million in its data center campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one of its largest (and best) such facilities. Since this site started in 2007, Google's investments in the state have now surpassed $5 billion.
At the SIGGRAPH conference NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the GH200 "Grace Hopper" superchip, a groundbreaking advancement in high-performance computing, designed to leverage the power of HBM3E memory and likely poised to significantly elevate the capabilities of data-intensive tasks and processing by integrating advanced memory technologies. When I asked AI to tell me about the GH200, it said “the GH200 is a chip designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) models. It has the same GPU as Nvidia's current highest-end AI chip, the H100, but with 141 gigabytes of memory and a 72-core ARM central processor. The GH200 is designed to handle complex AI workloads such as large language models, recommender systems, and vector databases.”
Intel unveiled its virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) processor fully equipped with 5G capabilities, marking a significant advancement in edge computing technology and further enabling the seamless convergence of virtualization and 5G networks. 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost.
Aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on August 3rd, Intelstat launched the Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 (G-37/H-4), setting a new record for the commercial satellite industry by sending eight geostationary satellites into space within 10 months.
Hey AI - please explain this research (Evidence for suprathermal ion distribution in burning plasmas) to me.
At the National Ignition Facility, scientists are conducting experiments to achieve fusion ignition, which involves burning and igniting a hydrogen plasma to generate a net source of energy through the fusion of deuterium and tritium ions. Fusion ignition is a significant milestone in the field of nuclear fusion and has the potential to provide a clean and abundant source of energy.
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