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Dr. Owen Rogers
3 days ago
Sweat dedicated GPU clusters to beat cloud on cost

Dedicated GPU infrastructure can beat the public cloud on cost. Companies considering purchasing an AI cluster need to consider utilization as the key variable in their calculations.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
12 Dec 2024
Why AWS’s AI strategy is a sprint

Cloud providers need to win AI use cases in their early stages of development. If they fail to attract customers, their AI applications may be locked-in to rival platforms and harder to move, which can have serious repercussions.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Max Smolaks
11 Dec 2024
Nvidia’s vision for data centers may be a false prophecy

Nvidia’s dominant position in the AI hardware market may be steering data center design in the wrong direction. This dominance will be harder to sustain as enterprises begin to understand AI and opt for cheaper, simpler hardware.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
2 Dec 2024
Most AI models will be trained in the cloud

The cost and complexity of deploying large-scale GPU clusters for generative AI training will drive many enterprises to the public cloud. Most enterprises will use pre-trained foundation models, to reduce computational overheads.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Peter Judge
28 Nov 2024
Hydrogen fuel cells: a niche option for standby power

Hydrogen from renewable sources is in short supply. While future plentiful supplies are planned, currently only a very small number of data centers are using hydrogen for standby power.

Briefing Reports 16 min read
Andy Lawrence
26 Nov 2024
AI: enterprises are active — but cautious

Enterprises have much enthusiasm for AI, interviews and workshops by Uptime Intelligence suggest, but this is tempered by caution. Most hope to avoid disruptive, expensive or careless investments.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
21 Nov 2024
Why technology business management does more than FinOps

While the aim of FinOps is to manage just the cloud costs, technology business management seeks to aggregate all costs of IT, including data centers, servers, software and labor, to identify savings and manage return on investment.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
8 Nov 2024
What is the outlook for GPU cloud providers?

To meet the demand driven by AI workloads, a new breed of cloud provider has emerged, delivering inexpensive GPU infrastructure as a service. Their services are highly demanded today, but longer-term, the market is ripe for consolidation.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
29 Oct 2024
How generative AI learns and creates using GPUs

While GPUs are the power-hungry devices that enable effective AI training, it is innovations in software that are fueling the recent surge in interest and investment. This report explains how neural networks power generative AI.

Briefing Reports 20 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
22 Oct 2024
New quantum cloud region signals increased commercial focus

Although quantum computing promises a revolution in scientific discovery, its use is still constrained to research and continuing development. However, a new IBM quantum data center in Germany signals a growing interest in its capabilities.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Douglas Donnellan
26 Sep 2024
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024: regional view

This report provides a regional view of the results from the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024 and highlights some of the different challenges and strategies of data center owners and operators across the globe.

Data Reports 4 min read
Rose Weinschenk
21 Aug 2024
Building trust: working with AI-based tools

Trust in AI as a tool for data center operations has declined sharply in the past three years. It is possible to control for the factors that drive mistrust — and see better outcomes when employees interact with AI-based systems.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Peter Judge
19 Aug 2024
Hydrogen in data centers: an introduction

Hydrogen is a promising energy storage medium that can help decarbonize infrastructure. It is not a great fit for the majority of data centers, and the hydrogen economy is not fully developed.

Briefing Reports 10 min read
Max Smolaks Daniel Bizo
1 Aug 2024
Hardware for AI: what makes it different

Most operators will be familiar with the outrageous power and cooling demands of hardware for generative AI. Why are these systems so difficult to accommodate, and what does this mean for the future of data center design?

Intelligence Updates 10 min read
Daniel Bizo
5 Jul 2024
Interest in two-phase cooling warms up

Two-phase immersion was expected to revolutionize data center cooling but proved difficult to implement. With escalating silicon thermal power, two-phase is gaining substantial interest again, just in a different form: direct-to-chip liquid cooling.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read