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Global Liquid Cooling Information- Jan 15th

Queen Mary University of London uses data center waste heat to warm buildings

  • Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is using waste heat from its data center to warm buildings on its Mile End campus.

  • The university worked with Schneider Electric, PCH Engineers, BTU Installation and Maintenance, and Advanced Power Technology (APT) to install a multi-stage heat recovery process that transforms waste heat into water temperatures of 65-75°C (149-167°F).

  • Philippa Lloyd, vice-principal for policy and strategic partnerships at QMUL, said the project represents “a major step forward” on the university’s sustainability journey, with the potential to reduce reliance on gas boilers and cut fossil fuel consumption.

  • Philippa Lloyd, vice-principal for policy and strategic partnerships at QMUL, said the project represents “a major step forward” on the university’s sustainability journey, with the potential to reduce reliance on gas boilers and cut fossil fuel consumption.

  • Patrick Hendry, project manager at PCH Engineers, added: “The integration of Schneider Electric technology, combined with BTU and APT’s expertise, has delivered a solution that meets both computing and sustainability goals. This project not only demonstrates Queen Mary’s commitment to innovation but sets a benchmark for universities across the country.”


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Where Technology Meets Humanity to Create Extraordinary Possibilities

  • LAS VEGAS, NV – January 10, 2025 – CES® 2025, the most powerful tech event in the world, welcomed over 141,000 attendees from around the globe. With more than 4500 exhibitors, including 1400 startups, and more than 6000 media attendees, CES highlights the innovation and technology trends addressing global challenges and shaping the future.

  • CES 2025 Highlights:Artificial Intelligence – CES 2025 connected the dots between humanity and AI through powerful exhibits and programming. From AI-driven productivity tools to breakthroughs in medical advancements, products and services on the show floor demonstrated that artificial intelligence is not just a technology trend but a transformative force improving lives worldwide.Exhibitors included: AMD, Hisense, LG, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung, Siemens, TCL .

  • Keynotes :NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang on Monday drew 6300 attendees to unveil the GeForce RTX 50, surpassing the RTX 4090 in performance, and introduced Agentic AI, a real-time assistant to streamline consumer workflows. Huang also showcased the Cosmos World Foundation Model and generative AI tools to advance robotics navigation. Highlighting AI-driven innovation, Huang announced a partnership with Toyota to develop next-gen autonomous vehicles using the safety-certified NVIDIA DriveOS.


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CES 2025: AI Advancing at ‘Incredible Pace,’ NVIDIA CEO Says

  • NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang kicked off CES 2025 with a 90-minute keynote that included new products to advance gaming, autonomous vehicles, robotics and agentic AI.

  • Revolutionizing Graphics With GeForce RTX 50 Series

  • With that, he introduced the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, the most powerful GeForce RTX GPU so far, with 92 billion transistors and delivering 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS).

  • More variations in the GPU series are coming. The GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 desktop GPUs are scheduled to be available Jan. 30. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and the GeForce RTX 5070 desktops are slated to be available starting in February. Laptop GPUs are expected in March.

  • Accelerated by GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs

  • These models — offered as NVIDIA NIM microservices — are accelerated by the new GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

  • The GPUs are designed to run these models efficiently, with support for FP4 computing that boosts AI inference performance by up to 2x while reducing memory usage compared to previous-generation hardware.


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US tightens its grip on AI chip flows across the globe

  • New US controls on AI chips go beyond China, set export quotas for about 120 countries

  • Exports to 18 allies including Japan, Britain, the Netherlands exempt from new rules

  • Regulations aim to bolster US AI leadership

  • NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Monday it would further restrict artificial intelligence chip and technology exports, divvying up the world to keep advanced computing power in the United States and among its allies while finding more ways to block China's access.

  • The new regulations will cap the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries and allow unlimited access to U.S. AI technology for America's closest allies, while also maintaining a block on exports to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

  • The regulations cap a four-year Biden administration effort to hobble China's access to advanced chips that can enhance its military capabilities and seek to maintain U.S. leadership in AI by closing loopholes and adding new guard rails to control the flow of chips and global development of AI.


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Microsoft to invest $3bn in AI and cloud computing in India

  • Microsoft will invest around $3 billion in expanding artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing capacity in India. Microsoft will invest around $3 billion in expanding artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing capacity in India.

  • Microsoft has existing cloud regions in India including Central India located in Pune, South India located in Chennai, and West India located in Mumbai. Globally, the company has more than 60 cloud regions and 300 data centers. In addition, Microsoft plans to train 10 million people in AI by 2030 in the country as part of its ADVANTA(I)GE INDIA initiative.

  • In the last few days, Microsoft announced it planned to spend $80 billion on building AI data centers in the 2025 financial year, a significant increase from last year. More than half of that commitment will be in the United States.


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DeepGreenX, Sente Ventures sign $25bn agreement for green data center development

  • South Korean investment firm DeepGreenX has signed a framework agreement with Sente Ventures to create a new five-year $25 billion strategic investment program.

  • The program will be open to companies that provide solutions for clean energy generation, virtual grids, battery storage, microreactor power, data center infrastructure, and technologies to support data centers and computing hubs.

  • The partners will use the program to capture sustainability customers and deep technology solutions for DeepGreenX’s AI-powered data financialization platform.

  • DeepGreenX was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The company has operations in 20 countries and offers a broad suite of services, including carbon credits, green energy certification, and nature-based assets for the technology and data center sectors.

  • In November, the Asia Development and Investment Bank (ADIB) announced a strategic equity investment into DeepGreenX. As part of the deal, ADIB will provide DeepGreenX with $140 billion in engineering, procurement, construction, and data management projects and will also acquire a 36 percent stake in the company.


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Samsung Q4 2024 results fall short of expectations, despite record-breaking memory sales

  • Samsung’s Q4 2024 preliminary earnings are “significantly below market expectations”, with the company claiming in a statement that sales and profits in its semiconductor division “fell due to worsening business conditions centered on IT products.”

  • Samsung’s non-memory business decreased during the quarter as a result of lower operating rates and increased R&D expenses, while the company’s Device Experience (DX) division also saw business fall due to intensified competition and weaker effectiveness of new mobile product launches.

  • The news comes as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas that Samsung has struggled to produce new advanced memory chips for AI. However, Huang added that the company was “working very fast” to overcome the challenges, saying “They are working on it. They will succeed, no question they will succeed.”

  • In May 2024, it was reported that Samsung's high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips had failed tests run by Nvidia. They were eventually cleared for use by the GPU giant in July.


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AWS launches cloud region in Thailand

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its first cloud region in Thailand.The AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region went live on January 7 and comprises three Availability Zones.

  • The company's first in Thailand, the cloud region is the fourteenth Asia Pacific region joining those in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, as well as in Beijing and Ningxia China.

  • Google announced plans for a Thai cloud region in August 2022, and In September 2024, planned to spend $1 billion on cloud and data infrastructure in the country. Microsoft also plans to build a data center region in Thailand.


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Keppel DC REIT to Divest Malaysian Data Center

  • Keppel DC REIT Management Pte. Ltd., the manager of Keppel DC REIT, announced today that its subsidiary, Basis Bay Capital Management Sdn. Bhd., has entered into a sale and purchase agreement to divest the Basis Bay Data Center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

  • The data center will be sold to Basis Bay Services MSC Sdn. Bhd., the current master lessee and facility manager of the property. The sale, expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2025, is part of Keppel DC REIT’s proactive asset management strategy.

  • The sale price is RM55.6 million (approximately S$16.9 million), with Keppel DC REIT’s share amounting to RM55.1 million (approximately S$16.7 million).

  • The divestment is not expected to have a material impact on Keppel DC REIT’s net asset value or distribution per unit for the current financial year.


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Hyperscale capacity set to triple by 2030

  • The capacity of hyperscale data centers is set to triple by 2020, according to a report from Synergy Research Group. The trend has been attributed to the surge in generative AI technology.

  • The number of operational hyperscale data centers will continue to steadily grow, but more pressingly, the average IT load of individual data centers will ramp up.

  • This year already, AWS has pledged to invest $11 billion in Georgia, US, to support growing AI needs. The tech giant also launched its cloud region in Thailand as part of the company’s plan to invest more than $5 billion in the country.

  • Microsoft also announced plans to spend $80 billion on data centers this year, and followed this with an additional $3 billion investment in AI and cloud computing.


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Gryphon Digital acquires natural gas site in Alberta, plans to develop AI data center

  • Bitcoin miner and artificial intelligence (AI) data center developer Gryphon Digital Mining is to develop a natural-gas powered facility in Canada.

  • The company has agreed to purchase an 850-acre industrial site with access to a natural gas supply from Captus Energy in Southern Alberta.

  • Gryphon plans to develop an on-site AI and high-performance computing data center directly powered by natural gas.

  • According to the company, at full capacity, assuming $1.5 million of revenue per megawatt, the site could generate more than $5 billion of annual revenue.

  • Gryphon was founded in 2021 and has several Bitcoin mining operations across the US. In August, it acquired up to 2.9MW of gas flare Bitcoin mining operations in Louisana.


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Global data center demand to surge despite supply and power constraints

  • Global data center demand is expected to surge in 2025, despite supply and power constraints, according to a report from JLL.

  • In 2025, an estimated 10GW is projected to break ground globally, with 7GW reaching completion. The global market will expand at a baseline of 15 percent CAGR through to 2027, potentially even reaching 20 percent.

  • Liquid cooling to become new norm

Liquid cooling is expected to become the new standard for data center developments and immersion cooling is set to become a common solution as GPUs surge past 150kW.

However, the report adds that whilst AI is a driver, it will represent less than 50 percent of data center demand in 2030, with traditional, lower-intensity workloads like data storage and cloud computing making up the rest.

  • Developers seeking alternative energy sources

With global data center energy demand expected to double over the next five years, developers are now seeking alternative energy solutions.

Several high-profile data center operators signed SMR supply agreements in 2024, fueling renewed interest in the sector.

  • Investor appetite to continue growing

Due to power scarcity, attractive returns, and growing excitement around AI, investor appetite for data centers will remain strong in 2025.


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