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The retirement of old server equipment from data center facilities could become an opportunity for enterprises to generate revenue, instead of being an often costly recycling expense. Last year Western Digital announced it was experimenting with new ways to extract valuable rare earth elements and metals from obsolete servers from Microsoft’s US data centers, as part of a collaboration with Criti…

With demand for AI chips rising and supplies tightening, Meta is taking its AI computing needs into its own hands and developing more of its own chips: It will produce four new generations of chips over the next two years. Cloud computing giants including Meta, AWS, and Google have been keen to develop their own chips to improve the performance of their own data centers. Meta started its own chip…

MWC is a notoriously noisy event with a seemingly endless stream of news. If you spend your time chasing the latest product announcements, you’ll likely miss the structural shift happening underneath the surface. The telecom industry has spent the better part of a decade talking about cost-cutting and “telco transformation,” but at MWC 2026, the conversation pivoted toward a more aggressive, over…

AI’s challenge starts with definition. We hear all the time about how AI raises productivity, and many have experienced that themselves. But what, exactly, does “productivity” mean? To the average person, it means they can do things with less effort, which they like, so it generates a lot of favorable AI stories. To a business, though, it means more revenue-generating output per unit of input, su…

Arista Networks this week announced that it has developed a 12.8 Tbps liquid cooled optics module that it says will help address the power and performance needed for AI data center network development. The module, called the eXtra-dense Pluggable Optics (XPO) offers 12.8Tbps of bandwidth using 64 electrical lanes and includes an integrated liquid-cooled cold plate capable of supporting 400W+ modu…

Quantum computing has moved past the “science curiosity” stage, but, ultimately, hasn’t reached the general-purpose, fault-tolerant phase. This, researchers say, requires the use of quantum computers and classic high performance computing (HPC) in tandem. When combined, they can process emerging algorithms and workflows, and truly scale real-world applications. To this end, IBM has released what …

Migrating entire workloads from one cloud to another is not a trivial matter. Terraform , the de facto standard for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) technology, was designed to make infrastructure portable across cloud providers. The reality is more nuanced and often painful. Each cloud provider uses its own resource dialects, migrations stretch into months of manual rewrites, and AI tools that claim…

Cisco has taken the wraps of new optical gear aimed at supporting the advanced network infrastructure required to handle distributed AI workloads. “AI is fueling exponential traffic growth, exposing traditional data center boundaries, and pushing workloads across networks. Training the largest frontier AI models now requires connecting multiple data centers and overcoming power and space limitati…

More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology , Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s partners read like a technology who’s who list – e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and also crosses into vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and manufac…

F5 has built its business on application delivery and security across distributed environments. At its AppWorld conference in Las Vegas this week, F5 announced a broad set of updates to its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP). The platform provides a unified policy and management layer across F5’s three data plane products: Big-IP , NGINX , and Distributed Cloud . The announcements …

Datalec Precision Installations (DPI) has launched its next-generation Data Centre Modularization Solution designed to help organizations deploy critical infrastructure more quickly, flexibly and cost‑effectively. Modular data centers are a growing trend in the data center industry, due to the fact that they allow customers to start small and expand as needed rather than make a one-time large inv…

A new study from Enteligent found that shifting from traditional alternating current (AC) power to 800V direct current (800VDC) can dramatically reduce cost, energy waste, and infrastructure complexity in high-density AI data centers. But Enteligent is a developer of direct current (DC) power infrastructure for high-density loads, so it has a vested interest in such findings. But does that dimini…

A recent analysis by RationalFX found 45,363 job cuts globally so far this year—with roughly 68% or more than 30,000 occurring in the U.S.—highlighting ongoing workforce adjustments even as many major technology companies report strong revenue growth. The RationalFX report, which compiles layoff anno u ncements from sources including WARN filings, TrueUp, TechCrunch and Layoffs.fyi, points to a r…

Another startup is emerging to take on the challenge of AI networking . This time, it has a name taken from the mists of history. AI networking startup Eridu came out of stealth on Tuesday with more than $200 million in funding. The company is targeting what it says is a fundamental architectural mismatch between the scale demands of AI data centers and what current switching technology can deliv…

Cisco has integrated Splunk analytics directly into its core data-center network management package, which the company says will help customers significantly speed network fault detection, reduce times for root cause analysis, and automate remediation. Cisco bought Splunk for $28 billion in March 2024 and has been integrating its security and observability technology across the Cisco portfolio ev…