Artificial intelligence is a key transformation driver across industries, and there’s a race to unlock its full potential. For that to happen, key players in the tech world are racing to build the infrastructure needed to sustain its momentum. These efforts span AI accelerators, system architectures, data centers, networking and storage.
“AI is driving a huge appetite for performance, and everybody is constrained by budgets and space and power,” said Steve Scott (pictured), corporate fellow, network and systems architecture at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. “The COLA rates are historically low, like less than 2%. I’ve heard that over 80% of new data centers that are under construction are already leased. One of the things that customers are asking us about is just the need to consolidate their general-purpose compute to free up space and power for AI.”
Scott spoke with Raj Yavatkar, chief technology officer of Juniper Networks Inc., during a panel discussion at the Seize the …