How the Rise of AI is Shaping the Data Center Industry
Racks packed with Big Sur servers inside the Facebook data center in Prineville, Ore. Each rack holds four of the GPU-accelerated chassis, which crunch data for artificial intelligence applications. (Photo: Facebook)
Artificial intelligence has profound implications for society, and for the data centers that will power it. The rapid growth of AI is contributing to the building of new services, as well as enhancing products already on the market. And the growing popularity of machine learning as a business is also boosting demand for powerful high performance computing hardware.
The emergence of AI is a key theme here at Data Center Frontier. The rise of AI applications will drive demand for data center space, and have design implications for how high-density racks are powered and cooled. To help our readers, we’ve put together a collection of resources to understand the importance of artificial intelligence industry for the data center industry.
First up, read about AI’s impact on the data center, both in managing data center facilities and the hardware that runs inside them:
ROOT Generator Will Use AI to Monitor its Generators: Backup generators at a ROOT Data Center facility near Montreal. (Photo: ROOT Data Center)ROOT Data Center announced that it is teaming with LitBit to use artificial intelligence to monitor its backup generators, marking the first use of this type of technology to reduce the risk of data center outages.
Startups Foresee Future Where AI, Robots Manage Data Centers: Will artificial intelligence and robotics manage the data centers of the future? DCD Webscale, LitBit and Wave2Wave discussed new products to streamline data center management and address the industry’s staffing challenges.
Big Sur: A Closer Look at the Engine Powering Facebook’s AI: The Big Sur GPU-powered server is the key to Facebook’s bid to create a smarter newsfeed for its 1.6 billion users around the globe. We see it in action at Facebook’s Oregon data center.
