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Singapore Johor, Singapore emerge as data centre hot spots amid Apac’s US$15.5b investment boom  [ BT -20250411] " The Asia-Pacific region is expected to add 4,174 MW of capacity by 2027 through US$59b in planned investments "  Keppel partners Amazon Web Services on generative AI, sustainable infrastructure  [ BT - 20241205] "The global asset manager is developing a cable system, which will be ‘the largest capacity high-speed transmission cable’ across the Pacific Ocean when fully commissioned."  "They will also work together to accelerate generative AI innovation, including a series of workshops to design an AI platform that will boost Keppel’s growth strategy. The platform will be built using AWS services." Equinix breaks ground on 20MW data center in Singapore  [ DCD - 20241124] "Equinix has broken ground on a new data center in Singapore. It is one of the first facilities given the green light as part of a relaxation of a years-long moratorium on ...
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AI Use Cases

Nvidia's telco push "The GPU king has taken over data centers, now it’s turning its attentions to telecoms." [ DCD -20250410] Scaling the AI-native telco "With telcos aiming to integrate AI throughout their organizations, here’s how they can unlock the full potential while positioning themselves for the next wave of innovation..." [ Mckinsey -20250315] How Seattle Seahawks are approaching genAI, model choices with AWS [ Constellation -20241010]  "The Seattle Seahawks are using Amazon Bedrock, generative AI and other AWS services to distribute video and content faster with a focus on quick returns as well as long-tail opportunities.." BioNtech, InstaDeep bet on genAI models to advance R&D, drug discovery, cancer treatment [ Constellation -20241003]  "BioNtech's InstaDeep, which was acquired in 2023 for about $682 million, has released a series of foundational generative AI models for proteins and DNA and released them on its DeepChain plat...
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Did you hear the news?

Google unveils 7th gen TPU "Google unveiled the seventh-generation tensor processing unit chips, which will be the first designed specifically for inference." - Ironwood : The first Google TPU for the age of inference [ Google Press Release - 20250409] EU Commission sets course for Europe's AI leadership with an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan " Building a large-scale AI data and computing infrastructure " [ EU Press release - 20250409] Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Ian Buck, and Charlie Boyle on the future of data center rack density " CEO Huang and other Nvidia heads tell DCD about what to expect over the next few years" [ DCD - 20250321] Who is Intel’s new CEO Tan Lip-Bu? " The Singapore-raised industry veteran will helm the US chip giant from Mar 18" [ BT -20250314] MWC 2025: It's not just a telecoms show anymore " Unsurprisingly, AI dominated most of the discussion at MWC. I don’t think I saw a stand that didn’t mention AI in...
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Supporting Technologies for Data Center

Power Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems [ SA ] Meta Datacenter Scrapped, Vertiv, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Legrand, Delta, Datacenter Bill Of Materials By Component, Transformers, Switchgear, Redundancy, UPS, OCP Busbar, Generators, Substation Datacenter Anatomy Part 2 – Cooling Systems [ SA ] L2A, L2L, Immersion, Two-Phase, Google vs Meta vs Microsoft vs Amazon Water Cooling Design, WUE, PUE, Nvidia Rubin Power & Cooling Architecture SMRs: A (small) nuclear revolution? "Hyperscale partnerships could be the catalyst for small modular reactor development" [ DCD -20250313] Networking InfiniBand Series - Part 1 : Demystifying the InfiniBand versus Ethernet debate InfiniBand Series - Part 2 : A closer look at cables, termination types, and fiber innovations InfiniBand Series - Part 3 : Building a network for high-performance computing and AI InfiniBand Series - Part 4 : How InfiniBand and AI are dramatically reshaping data center infrastructure Liquid Cooling I...
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Data Center Business Strategy

Understanding AI deployment methods and locations Enterprises have various options on how and where to deploy their AI training and inference workloads." [ DCD -20250114] How Kao is de-risking growth in the AI data center boom "I nstead of going all in for AI, Loewe says that Kao sticks to an ‘ ACE ’ strategy - that is, AI, cloud, and enterprise. “Having that diversified customer base is our differentiator,” he says." [ DCD -20241203] "Kao Data is a leading developer and operator of advanced data centers in the UK. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on providing high-performance colocation services, particularly for cloud, HPC (High-Performance Computing), AI, and enterprise customers. Their data centers are designed to support GPU-accelerated computing and are engineered for 
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Alternatives to NVIDIA GPUs

  AWS Graviton4  Graviton4, it has 30% better performance than Graviton3, while also containing 50% more cores and up to 75% better memory. [ AWS -20231129] Trainium2 Trainium2 is capable of delivering up to four times faster training than the first generation and will be used in AWS's EC2 UltraClusters of up to 100,000 chips. The cloud giant said it can train foundation and large language models, or LLMs, in "a fraction of the time" and improve energy efficiency by up to two times. Amazon (AMZN) said Anthropic, Databricks, Datadog, Epic, Honeycomb and SAP are among AWS customers using the new chips.  Further references, SeekingAlpha . Microsoft Maia 100 "The Maia 100 chip is aimed at AI workloads, and could go up against offerings from Nvidia (NVDA). It will be available for Azure cloud customers and it is already being tested with Bing and Office AI products, Microsoft executive Rani Borkar said at the conference, according to Bloomberg." [ SA -20241115] Cobal...
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