Data Centres are taking on a new prominence as the move to artificial intelligence drives up the requirements for compute and storage. This means CIOs are having to find new and innovative ways to power and cool computers that are become denser with every new chip generation.
Kathy Gibson visited Vertiv’s factory in Bologna to learn more.
Data centre gains importance in an AI world
The world we are in relies on data, and everything we do creates data in one form or another.
Karsten Winther, president: Europe, Middle East and Africa at Vertiv, says this is driving the need and growth for data centres around the world, growth that is being further driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) adoption.
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Nvidia pushes the envelope on AI performance
The era of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is just getting started, with massive innovations and developments still to come.
Carlo Ruiz, vice-president: enterprise solutions and operations at Nvidia EMEA, believes these innovations are going to come in three waves.
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AI data centres add new power challenges
The sustainable and reliable supply of power is a key concern as rapidly-growing data centres consume more and more electricity.
The last 20 years have seen a massive evolution in the data centre, , which has created new challenges for power and cooling, says Giovanni Zanei, vice-president: large power conversion at Vertiv.
And this is accelerating as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ever more pervasive.
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Leonardo supercomputer makes cooling sustainable
One of Europe’s biggest supercomputers, Leonardo ranks number 9 on the latest global Top500 list.
When the CINECA data centre in Bologna, Italy, went live in 2022, the Leonardo petascale supercomputer was the fourth-largest in the world.
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