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… Lee also questioned whether it’s necessary to downsize data centers to the “granularity of a few GPUs” in order to reduce their burden on the power grid. He speculated that deploying conventional 20-megawatt data centers instead of 1-gigawatt hyperscale data centers could prove similarly beneficial. …
… Both companies claim Jalapeño chips will be deployed in data centers by the end of this year. …
… Further, getting in at the silicon and data center levels can be an advantage in a market where data center access is likely to remain constrained, with multiple companies competing for compute as they scale up their AI models and services. …
… Iranian drone attacks on data centers disrupted Amazon Web Services in the region and stuck Amazon with months of repairs while forcing another data center developer to pause Middle East projects . …
… Additionally, Anthropic “expressed interest” in working with SpaceX to build up “multiple gigawatts” of orbital compute capacity, tying into a recent but unproven focus on exploring orbital data centers as an answer to the problem that “compute required to train and operate the next generation of t… …
… In a new feature, Ars looks into the technical challenges of building orbital data centers and assesses what it might take to build SpaceX’s proposed 1 million satellite megaconstellation. The key to all of this is not radiation or the need to cool data centers in space. …
… Starship and orbital data centers are the Falcon 9 and Starlink constellations on steroids. …
… Silicon Valley-based Cowboy Space will use the funding to develop its own rocket to put data centers into orbit. Cowboy up … The company’s vision sounds familiar. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have each announced plans to use their own rockets for launching orbital data centers. …
… He has previously written for New Scientist, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Wired, Undark Magazine and MIT Tech Review, among many other publications, about topics such as deepfakes, data centers, drones, battery tech, robotics, and GPS jamming. …
… Its competitor, OpenAI, recently announced a new custom chip called Jalapeño designed for large language model inference in data centers. …
