Forums Special Features → The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond

The Register embarks on a deep technical exploration into the next generation of datacenter design and infrastructure as the massive AI-driven buildout gets underway. We'll dig into the technicalities of photonic computing, liquid cooling systems, and the implementation of advanced neural network processors within datacenter environments. We'll also look at the energy necessary to power the buildout, including advances in clean energy and concerns about the grid.

State Forum Posts Latest Post
open AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter 9
By BenHM3
open All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup 12
By Piro
open Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators 21
open From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill 24
open Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track 7
open Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3 6
open AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns 32
open Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition 4
open Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux 27
open Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts 9
By MyffyW
open AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first 10
open Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away 27
open Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute 31
open Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold 8
open Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative 8
open Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power 147
open Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail 9
By rd232
open London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom 32
By druck
open Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges 28
open Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters 10
By ThatOne
open AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system 4
By HCV
open Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories 1
By harrys
open Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks they’ll run in 1
By Irongut
open Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters 6
open AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point 6
By HuBo
open Investors just can't pull the plug despite datacenters facing AI power crunch 12
By ChoHag
open You're buying fat new servers to save energy and make room for AI hardware, claims Dell 10
open Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI 24
By munnoch
open Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom 17