08/25/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Open Compute Project, NVIDIA, Google, Bitcoin Mining
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] The Open Compute Project Foundation has initiated a collaboration with major hyperscalers to advance the development and use of low-embodied carbon concrete, also known as "green concrete," for data center construction.
[Link] How Apheros plans to take the heat out of the world’s data centers. Swiss technology start-up Apheros announced it has invented a new type of “metal foam” that will help in the cooling process in data centers. The company’s founders believe their material can increase the efficiency of cooling systems by 90%.
[Link] At Hot Chips 2024 next week, senior NVIDIA engineers will present the latest advancements powering the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, plus research on liquid cooling for data centers and AI agents for chip design. The company will also release second-quarter financial results this Wednesday, August 28.
[Link] In a recent technical paper Apple noted that its Apple Foundation Model (AFM) and AFM server are trained on (Google) “Cloud TPU clusters.” CNBC got an exclusive look inside the lab where Google makes its chips, and had its top executive showcase TPU Version 6, Trillium, and its new Arm-based CPU, Axion, both coming out later in 2024.
[Link] Bitfarms to acquire Stronghold Digital Mining. The acquisition adds 4.0 EH/s to Bitfarms’ hash rate with expansion capacity of potentially over 10 EH/s with a fleet refresh. The companies said the deal could add up to 307MW of power capacity and is expected to put Bitfarms on track to increase its energy portfolio to over 950MW by year-end 2025.
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