DDC Report: Data Center Operators Must Lower Risk Exposure as Costs Rise

SAN DIEGO – January 29, 2025 – DDC Solutions, a provider of data center solutions, today announced the release of their Business Impact Report, “New Considerations for Datacenter Risk Exposure,” commissioned with S&P Global Market Intelligence, an analyst firm providing essential intelligence. The report states that as the demand for AI accelerators and related equipment […]

Argonne Releases Aurora Exascale Supercomputer to Researchers

“We’re ecstatic to officially deploy Aurora for open scientific research,” said Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. ​“Early users have given us a glimpse of Aurora’s vast potential. We’re eager to see how the broader scientific community will use the system to transform their research.”

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 we offer a rapid (8:04) review of HPC-AI news, including: Massive AI datacenter money for Stargate and from Saudi Arabia, when data centers can’t get bigger, India enters chip manufacturing ….

Bodo.ai Open-Sources HPC Python Compute Engine

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 27, 2025 — Bodo.ai, an open source start-up focused on transformative Python, has released its high performance computing engine for Python under the Apache License. The need to process ever-larger amounts of data with higher precision, faster speeds, lower costs, and a smaller carbon footprint has grown exponentially. Bodo.ai addresses these […]

Brookhaven Researcher’s ‘Exocortex’ for AI (Artificial Imagination)

Kevin Yager, the Electronic Nanomaterials Group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), has articulated an overarching vision for the role of AI in scientific research. It’s called a science exocortex — “exo” meaning outside and “cortex” referencing the information processing layer of the human brain.

$200M HPC Data Center for AI in Wisconsin Launched by DPO and Billerud

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2025 — Digital Power Optimization, Inc. (“DPO”), a developer and operator of power-dense data centers, today announced it has secured land and a power supply to develop a $200 million high-performance computing facility in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. This project will enable up to 20 megawatts of AI computing. DPO is working in partnership with […]

Pipeshift Raises $2.5M for AI Infrastructure Platform

San Francisco – January 23, 2025: Today, AI infrastructure startup Pipeshift announced their $2.5 illion seed round to address the challenge of deploying open source AI models, launching a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables engineering teams to orchestrate AI workloads across any infrastructure – cloud or on-premises. The company said more than 80 percent of enterprises […]

DigitalOcean Launches Generative AI Platform

Austin, TX – January 22, 2025 – Today, scalable cloud provider DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) introduced its new GenAI Platform at the company’s biannual developer conference, Deploy, in Austin, Texas. The GenAI Platform allows customers to use foundational models from third party providers to build and deploy AI agents in minutes without the need for advanced […]

QuEra: Quantum Budgets to Grow by 20%

Boston – January 22, 2025 – Research from neutral-atom quantum coputing company QuEra Computing indicates global budgets for quantum applications projected to rise nearly 20 percent in 2025, according to the company. The findings show that while high costs, talent gaps, and uncertainty around ROI remain significant barriers, 65% of respondents feel prepared to adopt […]

White House Announces $500B AI Data Center Infrastructure Build-Out

The Trump Administration ended its first full day of business with a major AI business announcement, that hundreds of billions of dollars – potentially trillions of dollars – will be invested in the build-out of AI infrastructure and data centers in the U.S. Joining President Trump at a White House press event late this afternoon […]