Google is investing another €5 billion in Belgium over the next two years to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure. That effort includes expanding its data centre locations in Saint-Ghislain and creating 300 new full-time jobs. At the same time, it’s inked deals with Eneco, Luminus, and Renner to help develop onshore wind farms and […]
IBM is rolling out a new AI-powered cloud service designed to help companies get a better grip on their increasingly messy networks. IT environments are becoming harder to manage, as networks comprise of a mix of on-premises data centres, private clouds, multiple public clouds, and SaaS apps. IBM’s new service, called Network Intelligence, tries to […]
Google layoffs have hit more than 100 workers in its design teams, marking the latest round of job cuts tied to the company’s shift toward AI and tighter spending. Earlier this week, Google layoffs affected parts of the cloud division, including teams working on user experience research, and platform and service experience. Internal documents seen […]
Huawei’s Shanghai Acoustics R&D Centre is a centre for acoustic engineering excellence, and a demonstration of how cloud computing automotive applications can reshape vehicle technology development. Behind the 43-speaker HUAWEI SOUND ULTIMATE Series is a computational infrastructure that processes massive acoustic datasets, runs simulations, and enables real-time audio processing that would have been impossible a […]
Cloud providers and enterprises building private AI infrastructure received detailed implementation timelines last week for deploying Huawei’s open-source cloud AI software stack. At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, the company outlined how its CANN toolkit, Mind series development environment, and openPangu foundation models will become publicly available by December 31, addressing a persistent challenge in […]
The challenge of building efficient cloud AI infrastructure has always been about scale – not just adding more servers, but making those servers work together seamlessly. At Huawei Connect 2025, the Chinese technology giant unveiled an approach that changes how cloud providers and enterprises can pool computing resources. Instead of managing thousands of independent servers […]
At the Huawei Connect 2025 event in Shanghai last week, Chinese technology Huawei explained its plans for the next generations of its Ascend chip line, and released details on its deployment in pods, and world-leading compute clusters. Speaking at the Huawei Connect conference, deputy chair of Huawei board, Eric Xu, said 2025 had been a […]
Alibaba and Nvidia have teamed up again, expanding their collaboration in AI and robotics. The two companies announced at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou that Nvidia’s embodied AI tools will be integrated into Alibaba Cloud’s machine learning platform. The move gives developers access to Nvidia’s toolkit for building AI systems that interact with the physical […]
The race to build data centres to support AI and high-density computing requirements is on, and CyrusOne is helping redefine scalable data centre design with Intelliscale, its modular approach to support greater workloads. “Intelliscale was engineered with adaptability at its core”, CyrusOne said when it launched its offering back in July, “building infrastructure that can […]
Data centre operators are at an interesting inflection point. How do they best handle the performance and power demands of AI workloads and keep an eye on the need for sustainability? NTT Global Data Centres (GDC) may have a better grasp on this question than most. CEO Doug Adams, in the company’s most recent Global […]