Fluidstack and Eclairion to Deliver 18K GPU Supercomputer in France

AI cloud platform Fluidstack and Eclairion, a French maker of modular, high-density data centers, have partnered to build what the companies said is Europe’s largest GPU supercomputer that they will deliver in 2025 for Mistral AI, the French AI startup.

HNO International Converting Wasted Flared Gas into Energy for Data Centers, Bitcoin Mining and Hydrogen

MURRIETA, CA — February 26, 2025 / HNO International, Inc. (OTC PINK:HNOI), a hydrogen-based clean energy company, announces the launch of EcoFlare Power, a division focused on harnessing wasted natural gas from flaring to generate reliable power to produce hydrogen and electricity for high-performance data centers and Bitcoin mining. Each year, billions of cubic feet of […]

HPC News Bytes 20250224: Microsoft Reports Quantum Advancement, DARPA’s Quantum Program, Harnessing GPUs on the Internet, France Claims Fusion Record

A good late February morning to you! Here’s a rapid (7:05) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU ….

Modern Hydrogen and Mesa Solutions Partner on Clean Power for Data Centers

Houston — Modern Hydrogen, a hydrogen production and carbon management company, and Mesa Solutions, a provider of on-site power generation, announced a partnership to deliver clean power solution for data centers. 

‘Plug, Baby, Plug’: France to Use Nuclear Power to Expand AI Computing Capacity

A country with deep nuclear power resources, France plans to dedicate a gigawatt of it (the power generated by 294 utility-scale wind turbines)  for an artificial intelligence computing project that rivals the Stargate project announced last month ….

HPC News Bytes 20250210: Big AI CAPEX Binge, More Data Center SMRs, Euro-Origin Quantum, Softbank Eyes Ampere

Good post-Super Bowl morning to you! The past week was somewhat calm relative to the riotous preceding period in the world of HPC-AI, but still, important developments emerged. Here’s a fast (5:52) overview ….

Nuclear Power: X-Energy Closes $700M Round for SMR Development

ROCKVILLE, Md., February 6, 2025 – X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy”), a leader in advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology, today announced the closing of its upsized Series C-1 financing round of $700 million. Segra Capital Management, Jane Street, Ares Management funds, Emerson Collective, and others join the previously announced round anchored by Amazon.com, Inc.’s […]

atNorth Awarded Iceland Infrastructure Prize

Reykjavík, Iceland – February 10th,  2025 – atNorth, the Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced its recognition at one of Iceland’s information technology events, UTmessan, along with other Icelandic data center operators for their role in facilitating the development of Iceland’s infrastructure. The Information Technology Award of The Icelandic Computer Society (Ský) is […]

HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers

The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ….

Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]