Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Centers

Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy (apnews.com)
Malaysia is betting that potential economic growth from data centers justifies the risk.

Malaysia, Data Centers, Economics, Environmental Impact

114 points by rntn 22 hours ago | 99 comments

Orchestrating GPUs in data centers and private clouds (dstack.ai)
Recent breakthroughs in open-source AI have made AI infrastructure accessible beyond public clouds, driving demand for running AI workloads in on-premises data centers and private clouds. This shift offers organizations both high-performant clusters and flexibility and control.

AI Infrastructure, Data Centers, Private Clouds, Open Source

20 points by latchkey 2 days ago | 4 comments

Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (cacm.acm.org)
Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users.

Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Meta, Hyperscale, Data Centers

20 points by flakiness 13 days ago | 6 comments

Linux kernel tweak could cut data center power usage by up to 30% (networkworld.com)
An improvement to the way Linux handles network traffic, developed by researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo, could make data center applications run more efficiently and save energy at the same time.

Linux, Data Centers, Energy Efficiency, Networking

5 points by thunderbong 15 days ago | 1 comments

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs (theregister.com)
Trump's tariffs are raising a new question mark over US datacenters and their expanding energy consumption, with price hikes possible as Canada threatens to withhold energy supplies in response.

Politics, Energy, Data Centers, Canada, United States

16 points by rntn 17 days ago | 2 comments

Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter (theregister.com)
Any hope Intel may have had of challenging rivals Nvidia and AMD for a slice of the AI accelerator market dissolved on Thursday as yet another GPU architecture was scrapped.

AI, Hardware, Competition, Data Centers

7 points by pseudolus 17 days ago | 0 comments

DeepSeek reportedly has 50k Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6B on buildouts (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Centers

10 points by jonnybgood 17 days ago | 5 comments

Analyst firm say DeepSeek has 50000 Nvidia GPUs and spent US $6B on buildouts (tomshardware.com)

Nvidia GPUs, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Data Centers, Computing

14 points by heresie-dabord 18 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Perforator – cluster-wide profiling tool for large data centers (github.com/yandex)
Perforator is a production-ready, open-source Continuous Profiling app that can collect CPU profiles from your production without affecting its performance, made by Yandex and inspired by Google-Wide Profiling.

Open Source, Performance Monitoring, Data Centers, Cloud Computing

78 points by BigRedEye 19 days ago | 13 comments

Perforator – cluster-wide continuous profiling tool for large data centers (github.com/yandex)
Perforator is a production-ready, open-source Continuous Profiling app that can collect CPU profiles from your production without affecting its performance, made by Yandex and inspired by Google-Wide Profiling.

Open Source, Monitoring, Profiling, Data Centers, Performance

26 points by simonpure 20 days ago | 1 comments

Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30 per cent (uwaterloo.ca)
Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a small modification to the Linux kernel that could reduce energy consumption in data centres by as much as 30 per cent.

Linux, Data Centers, Energy Efficiency, Computer Science

33 points by stefanhoelzl 24 days ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: I need interviews with datacenter employees for a grad school project (ycombinator.com)
I’m a material science grad student at UC Berkeley doing a datacenter sustainability project for the school of Haas’ Lean Launchpad class.

Data Centers, Sustainability, Research, Interviews, Business

13 points by caloricflow 26 days ago | 13 comments

Update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30% (uwaterloo.ca)
Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a small modification to the Linux kernel that could reduce energy consumption in data centres by as much as 30 per cent.

Energy Efficiency, Linux, Data Centers, Computer Science

9 points by paulv 28 days ago | 1 comments

Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret (theregister.com)
As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren't doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who are already under legislative pressure, to be more transparent about their own corporation's carbon footprint regarding compute services.

Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility

31 points by rntn 29 days ago | 2 comments

Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Partnerships, Investments, Technology

1021 points by tedsanders 30 days ago | 1538 comments

So you want to build your own data center (railway.com)
Since the beginning, Railway’s compute has been built on top of Google Cloud Platform. The platform supported Railway's initial journey, but it has caused a multitude of problems that have posed an existential risk to our business. More importantly, building on a hyperscaler prevents us from delivering the best possible platform to our customers.

Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Startups, Software Development

596 points by dban 34 days ago | 276 comments

Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI (theregister.com)
Most businesses rushing to adopt AI are unprepared for the energy demands it'll place on their infrastructure, and few have a handle on the power consumption of AI systems or the implications for their datacenters.

AI, Energy, Data Centers, Business, Infrastructure

44 points by rntn 36 days ago | 64 comments

Why is Ashburn the data center capital of the world? (datacenters.com)
Ashburn, a city in Virginia’s Loudoun County about 34 miles from Washington D.C., is widely known as the Data Center Capital of the World.

Data Centers, Geography, Technology, Location

48 points by akshatjiwan 38 days ago | 42 comments

UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for datacenters (theregister.com)
Britain's planning system is still seen as a significant barrier to the development of datacenters.

Data Centers, UK, Government, Planning, Regulations

4 points by macleginn 38 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft to spend $80 billion on AI data centers this year (yahoo.com)
Microsoft Corp. plans to spend $80 billion this fiscal year building out data centers, underscoring the intense capital requirements of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Investments

8 points by this_weekend 47 days ago | 0 comments

Electrical circuits encased in fluid may reshape data-center design (sandia.gov)
Keeping electrical circuits dry is generally considered a vital safety measure, but at Sandia’s High Performance Computing center, technicians adjust live circuits submerged in liquid.

Data Centers, Electrical Engineering, Safety, Liquid Cooling

31 points by akshatjiwan 51 days ago | 20 comments

Power Demand at Data Centers Is Disrupting Harmonics in Nearby Electrical Grids (cleantechnica.com)
According to Bloomberg, the enormous demand for electricity by data centers is leading to a phenomenon known as bad harmonics.

Data Centers, Electricity, Grids, Energy

4 points by ryan_j_naughton 52 days ago | 0 comments

Proxmox Announces Proxmox Datacenter Manager (proxmox.com)
We’re excited to announce the alpha preview of Proxmox Datacenter Manager! This is an early-stage version of our software, giving you a first impression at what we’ve been working on and a chance to collaborate.

Virtualization, Software, Open Source, Data Centers

30 points by LorenDB 63 days ago | 14 comments

AI's emissions are about to skyrocket even further (technologyreview.com)
Data center emissions have tripled since 2018. As more complex AI models like OpenAI’s Sora see broad release, those figures will likely go through the roof.

Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Data Centers

3 points by latexr 65 days ago | 0 comments

Ente Photo Storage – Reliability and Replication Architecture (ente.io)
The sibling of security is reliability.

Storage, Architecture, Reliability, Data Centers

4 points by nathan_phoenix 67 days ago | 0 comments

Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling (microsoft.com)
This summer, we released our Datacenter Community Pledge, detailing our commitment to the local economies and communities in which we operate our datacenters. Protecting local watersheds is an important part of this pledge—especially in areas where water stress is growing.

Data Centers, Sustainability, Environmental Impact, Technology, Microsoft

12 points by mooreds 72 days ago | 14 comments

Day after nuclear power vow Meta announces largest-ever fossil fueled datacenter (theregister.com)
Richland Parish, an idyllic rural area in northeast Louisiana, USA, is set to host a gigantic new Meta datacenter.

Data Centers, Technology, Environment, Louisiana, Meta

21 points by rntn 77 days ago | 2 comments

HPE Slingshot 400 Brings a Liquid Cooled 51.2T Switch and 400Gbps Networking (servethehome.com)
HPE is joining the 400Gbps generation for its Ethernet-based HPC interconnect. The new HPE Slingshot 400 not only increases the switch ASIC speed to 51.2Tbps, but it also will usher in significantly faster HPC interconnect speeds to keep pace with solutions like the NVIDIA Spectrum-X we showed in the 100K GPU xAI Colossus Cluster that are being used in AI clusters. We saw the new liquid-cooled switch on the SC24 show floor.

Networking, Liquid Cooling, Data Centers, Hardware

3 points by PaulHoule 80 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudy with a chance of GPU bills: AI's energy appetite has CIOs sweating (theregister.com)
Organizations are being forced to rethink where they host workloads in response to ballooning AI demands combined with rising energy bills, and shoving them into the public cloud may not be the answer.

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Energy, Costs, Data Centers

5 points by rntn 83 days ago | 0 comments

Hetzner - New tariff structure for Cloud servers and Load balancers in the USA (ycombinator.com)
Starting on 1 December 2024, 01:00 am CET, we will begin charging new prices for newly-created Cloud servers and introduce new amounts for included traffic for Cloud Servers and Load balancers at the US locations in Ashburn (ASH) and Hillsboro (HIL). This also applies to existing Cloud servers and Load balancers that are switched to a different tariff using the “Rescale” function.

Cloud Computing, Pricing, Data Centers, USA, Server Management

89 points by Aeolun 84 days ago | 4 comments