On Blackstone's third quarter earnings conference call, the company said its data center portfolio now has $70 billion in facilities and more than $100 billion in pipeline development.
General Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations for United States Space Force, outlined the agency's increasing challenges, but noted that the innovation at scale and pace is possible with a public-private partnership.
The company will continue to be led by founder and CEO Tien Tzuo, who added that going private will help the Zuora build out its monetization suite
Google Public Sector Summit featured a packed lineup of AI leaders, panels on use cases and real-world government challenges. Here's a look at the takeaways.
Amazon is investing in X-Energy Reactor Company's $500 million venture round as it becomes clear that AI factories will be increasingly tethered to nuclear reactors.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the company is committed to serving the public sector and government "in all of its domains" and said Google Public Sector is the only completely independent division to give it the leeway to serve customers.
Google Public Sector said Gemini in Google Distributed Cloud for secret and top-secret workloads will be available in early 2025 as the two-year-old unit announced key customer wins NIH Strides and CalHEERS as well as a Federal AI Solution Factory with Accenture. Google Cloud also won new authorizations for Air Force Cloud One to provide cloud services to the Department of the Airforce.
The German Speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) said that SAP on-premises customers are being discriminated against because the software vendor is requiring that new innovations, notably generative AI, will be delivered on its cloud platform.
Dell Technologies launched its Dell PowerEdge XE9712, a system built on Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 platform with 36 Nvidia Grace CPUs and 72 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in a rack.
Databricks broadened its partnership with Amazon Web Services in a move that will put Databricks Mosaic AI on AWS for custom models. In addition, Databricks will use AWS' Trainium chips as its preferred infrastructure for model training.
IBM used Adobe Firefly over the last year to lower its content spend by 80% and reduced its ideation time from 15 days to 2 days in a marketing campaign executed in and around the Sphere in Las Vegas. Perhaps the bigger takeaway is that IBM's returns were largely driven by using Firefly at the front end of the creative process.
Nuclear power has seen a resurgence as hyperscalers look for energy to train large language models (LLMs) and power AI workloads.
