#AMD splits #ROCm toolkit into two parts – ROCm #AMDGPU drivers get their own branch under Instinct #datacenter #GPU moniker
The new #datacenter Instinct driver is a renamed version of the #Linux AMDGPU driver packages that are already distributed and documented with ROCm. Previously, everything related to ROCm (including the amdgpu driver) existed as part of the ROCm software stack.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-splits-rocm-toolkit-into-two-parts-rocm-amdgpu-drivers-get-their-own-branch-under-instinct-datacenter-gpu-moniker

Microsoft pauses $1bn #datacenter plans in Licking County, Ohio
Another data center project bites the dust

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-backs-away-from-1bn-data-center-plans-in-licking-county-ohio/

Nobody wants #AI #copilot

#Microsoft puts $1B #US #datacenter builds on hold amid #AI, #tariff uncertainty
Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed?
There have already been warnings that the latest #tariffs target imports from countries including #China, #Taiwan, and #SouthKorea, where a great deal of datacenter equipment and the components used within them are manufactured, which will bump up the cost of fitting out bit barns.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/microsoft_puts_more_datacenter_builds/

"Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more"

"SourceMaterial’s analysis identified 38 active datacentres owned by the big three tech firms in parts of the world already facing water scarcity, as well as 24 more under development."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water

Data centers contain 90% crap data.

https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/
@gerrymcgovern

Rebooting Petabyte Control Node

am rebooting one of the control nodes for a petabyte+ storage array, after 504 days of system uptime..

watching kernel log_level 6 debug info scroll by on the SoL terminal via iDrac..

logs scrolling, the array of SAS3 DE3-24C double-redundant SFF linked Oracle/Sun drive enclosures spin-up and begin talking to multipathd...

waiting for Zpool cache file import..

waiting.. 131 / 132 drives online across all enclosures.. hmm.. what's this now...

> transport_port_remove: removed: sas_addr(0x500c04f2cfe10620)

well ffs

> 12:0:10:0: SATA: handle(0x0017), sas_addr(0x500c04f2cfe10620), phy(32),

oh, that's a SATA drive on the system's local enclosure bay for scratch data, it's not part of the ZFS pool..

next step, not today, move control nodes to a higher performance + lower wattage pair of FreeBSD servers

China built hundreds of #AI #datacenter s to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/

Hello Old Friend, Talos II

This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]

As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).

The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.

So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM

@dexter electricity comes next

Chicago near south side 76,000 foot #datacenter proposal: https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/21/another-data-center-could-be-coming-to-the-near-south-side/

Critical #AMI #MegaRAC bug can let attackers hijack, brick #servers
MegaRAC #BMC provides "lights-out" and "out-of-band" remote system management capabilities that help admins troubleshoot servers as if they were physically in front of the devices. The firmware is used by over a dozen #server vendors that provide equipment to many cloud service and #datacenter providers, including #HPE, #Asus, #ASRock, and others.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-ami-megarac-bug-can-let-attackers-hijack-brick-servers/

“#Microsoft walking back its climate commitment is a great example of why we need binding state and federal #climate laws, not corporate pledges that are reneged when they become inconvenient to profits and shareholders”
#climatefriendly #it #bigtech #unplugtrump #opensource #foss #ClimateAction #datacenter #ki #ai
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/microsoft-shrugs-off-company-climate-goals-to-support-burning-methane-gas-for-ai-data-centers/

ik was op de teeluhviezie met @juliajansen

https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/231329/hoe-je-online-data-het-klimaat-kan-schaden

#datamorgana #klimaat #datacenter #ai @at5 @datamorgana

Fresh from questioning whether AI will provide all the economic benefits it is expected to deliver over the next five years, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now pulling the company back on a number of datacentre investments.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/microsoft-cancels-datacentre-investments-over-ai-growth-concerns

#Bloomberg
"#Microsoft Dropped Some #AI #DataCenter Leases"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-cancels-leases-ai-data-055952585.html

The hype is over. That might be the beginning of the end or just the end of the beginning?

Do you self-host in a data center or colocation facility? What services do you host? What hardware do you have racked up?

"The US has also demanded that the final statement excludes any mention of the environmental cost of AI, existential risk or the UN.
In comments that appear to acknowledge pushback from the Trump administration, Anne Bouverot, Macron’s representative at the summit, said that the announcements from the summit would be from a “coalition of the willing”."

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/ai-summit-draft-declaration-criticised-for-lack-of-safety-progress-0kz6znrf5

So my talks about the #energyconsumption of #ai #datacenter s soon could be illegal?!

Carte des 35 datacenters prévus. Wikimedia est d'ores et déjà dans un #datacenter marseillais. La ville est le 7e hub internet au monde. https://www.aisnenouvelle.fr/id604317/article/2025-02-07/ia-une-trentaine-de-data-centers-en-construction-dont-plusieurs-dans-les-hauts