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Data Centre Investment
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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NSW sets 40% wind threshold for data-centre fast track
Projects meeting the new NSW guidelines can seek a 75-day state assessment while committing to additional renewables, storage and flexible electricity demand.
North America Datacenter Trends
Nvidia backs first 4.25GW of OpenAI capacity at PORTS-Pike
Nvidia's credit support covers the first 4.25GW tranche at PORTS-Pike, where OpenAI has a 20-year lease and phased delivery targets start in 2028.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Thylander, CIP start 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre
DDC1 pairs a new Danish colocation facility with grid-responsive power management, testing whether flexible electricity use can work alongside normal data-centre operations.
North America Datacenter Trends
Meta-BlackRock $14bn data centre carries partial insurance
Insurance limits cover only part of Sopaipilla's potential losses, leaving lenders to rely more heavily on Meta's lease and contractual support.
Global Institutional
NVM Express: How Storage Became a Network Protocol
NVMe began as a protocol for efficient access to flash inside servers. It evolved into a family of specifications that can carry the same queue, controller, and namespace model over PCIe, TCP, and RDMA. This continuity made storage disaggregation and sharing possible, while…
Global Institutional
NVM Express: how storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient way to communicate with flash memory installed inside a server. It became a family of protocols capable of carrying the same queue, controller and namespace model over PCIe, TCP or RDMA. That continuity enabled capacity to be disaggregated, but…
Global Institutional
NVM Express: How storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient language for flash storage in the server. It became a protocol family that carries the same model of queues, controllers and namespaces over PCIe, TCP or RDMA. That continuity made storage composable but shifted complexity into the fabric, firmware…
Global Institutional
NVM Express: How storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient language for flash memory inside the server, then became a family of specifications that carries the same queue, controller and namespace model across PCIe, TCP and RDMA. That continuity made it possible to disaggregate capacity from the server, but…
Global Institutional
NVM Express: How storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient protocol for accessing flash inside servers and developed into a family of standards that carries consistent queue, controller and namespace semantics over PCIe, TCP and RDMA. It makes storage easier to pool and compose while shifting complexity…
Global Institutional
NVM Express: How Drives Became a Network Protocol
NVMe began as a queue architecture for flash drives attached over PCI Express. Over time it grew into a modular protocol family that can reach storage over TCP and RDMA networks, supports resource discovery and multiple paths, describes specialised storage media models and…
North America Datacenter Trends
Ford backs Ontario data centres to keep data in Canada
Ontario's draft framework would assess large data-centre projects on data sovereignty, economic contribution, and community benefit alongside grid requirements.
Global Institutional
NVM Express: how storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient way to communicate with flash memory installed inside a server. It became a family of protocols able to carry the same queue, controller and namespace model over PCIe, TCP or RDMA. That continuity enabled disaggregated storage, but shifted some…
Global Institutional
NVM Express: How Storage Became a Network Protocol
NVMe began as a queue architecture for flash attached over PCI Express. It has grown into a modular protocol family that can reach storage across TCP and RDMA fabrics, support discovery and multipath, expose specialised media models and connect to management systems. The…
North America Datacenter Trends
Nvidia backs OpenAI Ohio data centre with $105bn guarantee
Nvidia's guarantee covers leases for 4.25GW of IT capacity, helping SB Energy finance the Ohio campus before OpenAI starts paying rent.
North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta begins AI data-centre town halls in Ponoka
Alberta is opening public discussions on AI data centres as communities weigh power, water and infrastructure requirements alongside new investment.
Global Institutional
PCI-SIG: The common rules inside AI servers
An AI server may combine processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from competing vendors. PCI-SIG maintains a common interface that lets these components be discovered, negotiate capabilities and exchange data, while…
Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the rulebook inside the AI server
An AI server can bring together processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from competing companies. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface that lets these parts meet and exchange data, and runs the test programmes used…
Global Institutional
PCI-SIG: The common rules that power AI servers
PCI-SIG sets the common rules that let AI server components work together and backs them with compliance testing. Its authority is limited to connectivity layer.
Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the internal rules of the AI server
An AI server can bring together processors, accelerators, network adapters, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from companies that compete with one another. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface that lets these components discover one another and…
Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the rulebook in the AI server
An AI server can combine processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from companies that otherwise compete with one another. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface through which these components discover each other and…