HPC News Bytes 20250127: Trillions for AI, the Limits of Data Center Largeness, India’s Chip Fab Entry

 

Good morning to you on this cold and dry January morning in the Northern Hemisphere. As AI data center fever prevails over the industrialized world, we offer a rapid (8:04) review of recent developments from the HPC-AI sector, including:

– Massive AI datacenter investments: $500 billion announced for Stargate, $600 billion for U.S. AI data centers announced by Saudi Arabia

– When data centers can’t get bigger

– India enters the chip manufacturing industry

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