We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management roles at four of the U.S. Department of Energy’s national labs, to talk about the mission-driven reasons why talented researchers and computer scientists should seriously consider a career with the national labs – knowing, of course, that their skills also are in high demand from private sector technology companies.
Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs
SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia
SpiNNcloud announced that Sandia National Laboratories has deployed its SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, “marking a significant milestone in the advancement of computing for national security applications,” the Dresden, German-based ….
Northern Data Group Announces 20MW HPC and AI Data Center in Pittsburgh
Frankfurt/Main, Germany – 4 June 2025 – Northern Data AG (ETR: NB2), a provider of AI and high performance computing solutions, today announced the opening of its new North American AI and HPC data center located in Pittsburgh, PA. The Pittsburgh Data Center, acquired in early 2024, will be operated by Ardent Data Centers, Northern Data’s […]
New Era Helium Advances 250MW Permian Basin AI Data Center
MIDLAND, Texas — New Era Helium, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEHC), an exploration and production platform in the Permian Basin, today announced that the Texas Critical Data Centers, LLC (“TCDC”) joint venture has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with PowerForward Energy Solutions (PFES) to provide 250MW of on-site generation capacity to power its planned AI […]
Amazon to Invest $10B in North Carolina AI Infrastructure
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 4, 2025) – Amazon announced it plans to invest $10 billion in a cloud computing and artificial intelligence campus just east of Charlotte, NC. “Artificial intelligence is changing the way we work and innovate, and I am pleased that North Carolina will stay at the forefront of all that’s ahead as we […]
Seeking Ethernet Alternative to InfiniBand? Start with Performance!
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical. While this is well known already, the impact your networking fabric performance has on parameters like job completion time can ….
Cornelis Launches CN5000: AI and HPC Scale-out Network
Wayne, PA June 03, 2025 – Cornelis Networks, an independent provider of high-performance networking solutions, today launched the CN5000 family, which the company said is the industry’s highest-performing end-to-end networking solution purpose-built to maximize AI and HPC performance, supporting deployments with up to 500,000 endpoints. Engineered to address compute underutilization and scaling challenges, CN5000 delivers […]
Recogni and DataVolt Partner on Energy-Efficient AI Cloud Infrastructure
San Jose and Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — May 28, 2025 — Generative AI inference systems company Recogni Inc. and sustainable AI cloud company DataVolt announced a partnership to build what they say will be the most energy-efficient AI cloud. “Recogni’s inference system leverages AI logarithmic math on purpose-built silicon and networking to set […]
Groq Named Inference Provider for Bell Canada’s Sovereign AI Network
Groq announced a partnership with Bell Canada to power Bell AI Fabric, the country’s largest sovereign AI infrastructure project to establish a national AI network at six sites, targeting 500MW of hydro-powered …
Colocation Company Colovore Taps Infrastructure Veteran Jeffrey Springborn as CEO
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Colovore, a high-density, liquid cooling colocation company, today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Springborn as chief executive officer. Springborn joins Colovore on the heels of a $925 million financing facility with Blackstone to fuel expansion of its AI data center platform in key U.S. metro markets. Driven by strong demand for mission-critical infrastructure that […]