Since pioneering the first corporate purchase agreements for renewable electricity over a decade ago, Google has played a pivotal role in accelerating clean energy solutions, including the next generation of advanced clean technologies. Today,… Article Source https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/
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When it comes to connectivity, especially at the edge, channel partners have a key role to play. Canalys research this week said as telcos seize control of the edge and start to compete and cooperate with hyperscalers, new edge-based solutions… Article Source https://www.channele2e.com/news/channel-brief-thursday-2
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is facing a protest from American Electric Power and Exelon regarding changes to an interconnection service agreement involving a nuclear power plant providing power to an Amazon data center. Talen Energy’s subsidiary, Susquehanna Nuclear, is urging the agency to reject the protest, calling it an illegal attempt to derail the … Read more
The Department for Education has been working with Bytes Software Services since 2020, spending approximately £86m on cloud hosting provided by the Microsoft reseller partner. They recently extended their contract for Microsoft Azure hosting services for nearly £4m, while preparing for a replacement agreement that is expected to start next month. The initial contract was … Read more
Microsoft has resolved a dispute with European cloud companies over allegations of abusing dominance to promote its Azure cloud service. The plaintiffs, including the Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe (CISPE) group and supported by Amazon AWS, claimed Microsoft was unfairly marketing Azure as a cloud service due to higher fees charged for the service. The … Read more
Elon Musk’s xAI is ending its server lease with Oracle’s cloud storage due to differences in technological specifications for a supercomputer. xAI had been using Nvidia H100 GPUs with Oracle AI, but Musk announced on Twitter that they are now building their own system for faster processing speed. While Oracle has reallocated the server capacity, … Read more
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has reportedly finalized a $10 billion server deal with tech giant Oracle, leasing Nvidia’s AI chips to train the Grok 2 chatbot. Musk confirmed that the company has leased 24,000 Nvidia H100s GPUs from Oracle for this purpose. The new AI chatbot is set to debut in August after some … Read more
Elon Musk’s xAI has decided to forego a $10 billion deal with Oracle to use their cloud servers for building its artificial intelligence training infrastructure. Instead, xAI is opting to purchase chips to create a data center on its own. Musk explained that the decision to train their next major system in-house using Nvidia’s H100 … Read more