The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Facebook
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says energy constraints are holding back AI data center buildout
"We would probably build out bigger clusters than we currently can if we could get the energy to do it"
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Meta plans $37bn digital infrastructure investment in 2024
Facebook parent company anticipates high levels of spending to cater for AI demand
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Meta to operate "600,000 H100 GPU equivalents of compute" by year-end
Including 340,000 H100 Nvidia GPUs at its data centers
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Meta's data center redesign due to it scrapping AI chip rollout, turning to Nvidia GPUs
Company hires Microsoft exec to lead new AI chip efforts
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Google increases server life to six years, will save billions of dollars
While Meta ups to five years
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Meta opens logistics hub in Las Vegas warehouse district
Facility will handle logistics for Meta’s data centers
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Meta to use time cards from Orolia to synchronize data centers
Using an alternative version of a Facebook design
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OCP: Meta updates Facebook's data center switches, moves to SAI open source API
And shows new hardware built by its OEM partners
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Facebook/Meta to deploy AMD Epyc server chips
A major blow to Intel
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Facebook is developing in-house AI chips for video transcoding, recommendations
Just like Google, Facebook expands its silicon ambitions
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Facebook starts work on final phase of $1.5bn Fort Worth data center campus
Started in 2015, the data center campus will finally be completed in 2022 and employ 200 staff
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Marvell to buy Inphi in $10bn semiconductor deal
Yet another billion-dollar chip deal
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Facebook details new OCP server 'Sonora Pass'
An improvement in modularity and security
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Cumulus' Linux OS first to support Facebook's modular Minipack
The Linux based OS will be available pre-installed on Facebook's network hardware
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Intel, Google and others join forces for CXL interconnect
CXL is designed to create a high-speed, low latency interconnect between the CPU and workload accelerators
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Facebook nabs Google chip exec to lead silicon initiative
Could be developing FPGAs and ASICs for the server market
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Facebook explores building its own ASICs and FPGAs
Its Own Compute Project
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OCP Summit: Open Network Linux is ready for mass adoption
Open source project brings together Facebook, Google and Big Switch Networks
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Intel announces new AI chip, with input from Facebook
Nervana Neural Network Processor aims to handle deep learning workloads in the data center
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White Space 70: Reports from the field
The editorial team talks about the places we’ve been and the things we’ve seen
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Telecom Infra Project recruits Microsoft, BT, Airtel and more
While Voyager switch gets some new users
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White Space 65: So long, 2016
What an eventful year we’ve had
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Facebook to expand Altoona data center, add cold storage
Its third cold storage facility
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New leadership at the Open Compute Project
Jason Taylor, vice president at Facebook, now Open Compute chairman
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Sony buys Frank Frankovsky’s optical storage start-up
Optical Archive wants you to store data in a robotic jukebox full of Blu-Rays discs
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Facebook shares details of its cold storage sites
With two billion photos shared daily, Facebook needs a big, fast library
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Facebook makes modular data center network fabric
Six Pack modular switch is a bypass at heart of network