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Susana SchwartzWhile AI leaders hailed AI for its potential to boost productivity and enhance work, significant attention was given to disruption of the workforce and the need for more equitable progress through reskilling and programs to mitigate inequality. The mainstage session at the World Economic Forum was packed, as Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang talked of the “five-layer cake” of …
Juan Pedro TomásIn sum – what to know: $100m sovereign cloud plan – BharathCloud plans to invest up to $100 million over five years to build AI-ready sovereign cloud and edge infrastructure across India. JLL as exclusive advisor – JLL will support site selection, design, and portfolio optimization for cloud centres across metro and Tier-II/III locations. AI, 5G, and edge focus – …
Digital Realty is set to enter the Malaysian market through the acquisition of CSF Advisers, owner of the TelcoHub 1 data center in Cyberjaya In sum – what to know: Malaysia added to Digital Realty’s footprint – The acquisition brings an operational 1.5MW facility in Cyberjaya plus land supporting up to 14MW of future capacity into its Southeast Asia platform. …
NTT Global Data Center’s current cooling portfolio spans multiple models, including immersion systems, direct liquid-to-chip architectures, and hybrid approaches In sum – what to know: Cooling complexity drives global knowledge-sharing – NTT is transferring lessons from mature deployments, including immersion cooling in Mumbai, to guide new designs across the US, Europe and APAC. Scalability and reliability reshape customer demands – …
Christian de LooperQualcomm apparently wants to be the next major ASIC builder In sum – what we know: Qualcomm has reportedly agreed to supply ByteDance with millions of custom AI chips for data center workloads, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. It’s a deal that, if it plays out as described, would mark one of Qualcomm’s first genuine large-scale …
AMD’s 256-core flagship targets agentic AI workloads In sum – what we know: AMD has moved its 6th Gen EPYC “Venice” server CPUs into volume production, marking the transition from engineering samples and pilot runs into scaled manufacturing at TSMC’s 2nm fabs in Taiwan. The chips are built on AMD’s Zen 6 core architecture and TSMC’s N2 2nm-class node, with commercial …
The new Google-Blackstone-powered provider targets 500 MW of capacity by 2027 In sum – what we know: Google and private equity giant Blackstone are teaming up to build a U.S.-based AI cloud provider built around Google’s custom Tensor Processing Units. The new joint venture will sell data center capacity, networking, operations, and TPU compute as a bundled service — effectively a turnkey …
Blaize and Winmate want to bring secure, real-time decision-making to defense and critical infrastructure without cloud reliance In sum – what we know: Edge AI is quickly becoming one of the most contested fronts in the broader AI infrastructure race, and this week brought another notable tie-up. Blaize Holdings and Winmate have announced an updated agreement to jointly develop sovereign, …
Telecom operators must rethink workforce training as networks and customer expectations evolve. Immersive, AI-driven roleplay and realistic practice environments can improve retention, strengthen customer-facing skills, and prepare distributed teams to …
As India accelerates its digital transformation, resilient, intelligent connectivity is becoming essential for global enterprises seeking to scale operations, ensure business continuity, and unlock opportunities across the country’s fast-growing AI, …
The company’s AI Data Center GPU Cloud is intended for customers facing restrictions on transferring data overseas and those seeking infrastructure optimized specifically for the Japanese market In sum – …
Panelists say defense networks must assume day-one attack and lean on civilian infrastructure to stay up The definition of resilience in defense communications is shifting, and so is the way …
