China Telecom’s AI Research Institute has successfully trained a 100-billion-parameter AI model named TeleChat2-115B using exclusively domestic computing resources. This development indicates that Chinese entities remain resilient against Western technology sanctions. The institute announced that the model was trained with…
US investment firm Blackstone is injecting £10 billion ($13.4 billion) into a groundbreaking AI datacenter project in northeast England, as announced by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday. Billed as Europe’s largest AI datacenter, this facility is set for…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is lobbying the Biden administration to support the development of a vast network of AI datacenters, each with a power requirement of up to five gigawatts. This initiative is deemed crucial for US national security and…
NTT Data has partnered with IBM to deliver a hybrid cloud service called SimpliZCloud, aimed at financial institutions in India. Based on IBM’s LinuxONE platform, this service is intended to optimize core banking and risk management workloads, offering enhanced performance…
The UK government has designated data centers as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), which provides more protection against critical incidents and allows developers to override local objections to new facilities. The Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, announced last week that CNI classification…
Starting today, the UK has classified datacenters as critical national infrastructure (CNI), granting them special government support. This initiative aims to mitigate the economic impact of IT outages, cyberattacks, and extreme weather events. A dedicated CNI data infrastructure team, comprising…
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