Supercomputers
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Nvidia has pledged to manufacture its AI supercomputing solutions in the US after President Trump’s currently suspended tariffs continue to force firms into supply chain rethinks. -
AI was once again front and centre at Google Cloud Next 2025. CEO Sundar Pichai opened the show by reaffirming Alphabet’s long-standing approach: “to always bring our latest AI advances into the full layers of our stack: Products and platforms”.
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New images of Elon Musk’s xAI data centre reveal a major expansion of on-site gas turbines, which campaigners claim violates environmental regulations.
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The EU is set to unveil an ambitious, multi-pronged blueprint it believes will help guide the bloc to become a global AI leader.
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Hunter, the University of Stuttgart’s newest supercomputer came online this week to power intense workloads for AI, biomedical research, and climate modelling.
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One of President Biden's closing acts before leaving office was to extend an olive branch to the US data centre market, instructing federal agencies to make sites ready for new AI data centres and clean power facilities.
Forthcoming events
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As the digital landscape continues to evolve, the data centre, cloud, and wider connectivity sectors are gearing up for a transformative year ahead.
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Independent cloud infrastructure firm Vultr, has teamed up with Juniper Networks, AMD, and Broadcom to develop a new data centre architecture that leverages tech from all four firms.
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Google has unveiled its latest quantum computing chip, Willow, a next-generation hardware unit that dramatically reduces quantum computational errors and can perform complex calculations exponentially faster than classical supercomputers.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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A new supercomputer has come online in the UK that’s set to power AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
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The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI), part of the National Applied Research Laboratories, has purchased its first full-stack superconducting quantum computer from IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in quantum technology.
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KAYTUS and NEC Deutschland partnered to supply the University of Cologne with a state-of-the-art liquid-cooled High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster to power research efforts.
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Just outside of the city of Bologna at the foot of the Apennine Mountains lies a juggernaut of a computing system capable of performing 250 petaFLOPS, that’s 250 quadrillion calculations per second.
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The Frontier supercomputer has lost its crown as the world’s fastest supercomputer to El Capitan, the new exascale supercomputer hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
