When Daniel Pope first floated the idea of submerging servers in liquid as an energy-efficient way to cool them a few years ago, his proposal was met with overwhelming scepticism from data centre equipment makers.
Construction and engineering giant Gamuda Bhd is expected to secure more jobs and boost its order book in the near term, analysts say.
(Reuters) -Weighed down by tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty, dealmaking has slowed to a crawl across most industries except one: the unglamorous world of data infrastructure.
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ZURICH (Reuters) -Microsoft will invest $400 million in Switzerland, the company said on Monday, with the money going towards developing its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
LONDON (Reuters) -Amazon has deepened its commitment to Britain, with the e-commerce giant saying it plans to invest 40 billion pounds ($54 billion) over the next three years, a move the UK government hailed as a vote of confidence in its economic policies.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy anticipates generative artificial intelligence will reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years as the online giant begins to increase its usage of the technology.
(Reuters) -Oracle will spend around $40 billion on Nvidia's higher-performance chips to power OpenAI's new U.S. data center, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Sunway Construction Group Bhd (SunCon) could surpass its own target of new job wins this year, with Maybank Investment Bank Research (Maybank IB Research) expecting the group to clinch RM8bil of new contracts this year (FY25).
With surging demand and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), the data centre industry stands at the forefront of a technological surge that could reshape the global economy, with implications that stretch far beyond Silicon Valley.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -SandboxAQ, an artificial intelligence startup spun out of Alphabet's Google and backed by Nvidia, on Wednesday released a trove of data it hopes will speed up the discovery of new medical treatments by helping scientists understand how drugs stick to proteins.
(Reuters) -CoreWeave has emerged as a winner in Google's newly signed partnership with OpenAI, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in the latest example of the voracious appetite for computing resources in the artificial-intelligence industry and the formation of new alliances to meet them.
(Reuters) -The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Tuesday sent a notice to billionaire Elon Musk's xAI, signaling its intention to sue the company over air pollution from the AI startup's data center in Memphis.
SAN FRANCISCO/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Qualcomm on Monday said it will make custom data center central processing units, or CPUs, that use technology from Nvidia to connect to Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips.
China will step up the input of central funds to support the construction of data infrastructure and make full use of ultra-long-term special treasury bonds to accelerate the building of architecture related to national data infrastructure, says the National Data Administration (NDA), the country's top data governance regulator.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, three sources told Reuters, marking a surprising collaboration between two prominent competitors in the artificial intelligence sector.
KUALA LUMPUR: Eco World Development Group Bhd (EcoWorld) said its wholly-owned subsidiary Paragon Pinnacle Sdn Bhd had inked a deal to dispose of 58 acres of leasehold industrial land in Eco Business Park V in Selangor to Pearl Computing for RM266.1mil.
MANILA: To have a basic but decent standard of living, a local think tank stressed the need for a P1,217 (US$21) living wage in Metro Manila, where most workers are compelled to make do with a minimum wage of P608 to P645.
(Reuters) -Amazon will invest A$20 billion ($12.97 billion) from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate and maintain its data center infrastructure in Australia, bolstering the nation's artificial intelligence capabilities, it said in a blog post on Saturday.
(Reuters) -Western Digital Corp forecast fourth-quarter results above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, betting on stable demand for its storage devices from cloud providers, sending shares up 7% in premarket trading.