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PART 5 / 8
This is an edited extract from our business paper Data Center + IT Collaboration to Cut Carbon: An Applications to Data Centers perspective for CIOs, CTOs, CSOs and Data Center Leaders.
Click below to gain instant access to the full white paper now. Or stay tuned as we release a new section each week.
3.1 Buildings
3.2 Power
3.3 Chips
3.4 Servers
3.5 Software
There is no doubt that the microprocessor market is being disrupted. While GPUs are doing most of the heavy lifting in AI, it is predominately x86 architectures that remain the workhorses of corporate IT workloads.
But it is also a much more open market with Cloud companies designing their own chips
for use in their data centers using Reduced Instructure Set Computer (RISC) architecture.
It has been reported that Amazon is using ARM architecture as the processor for its server designs and that this is saving up to 60% in electricity for similar computational power compared with older architectures.
AMD plans to expand the AI capabilities of its CPUs future by making use of the advanced AI engine technology from its 2022 $49 billion acquisition of FPGA outfit Xilinx.
AMD says “Our goal is to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD processors and accelerators powering servers for HPC and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-training from 2020-2025. These important and growing computing segments represent some of the most demanding workloads. This goal represents more than a 2.5x acceleration of the industry trends from 2015-2020 as measured by the worldwide energy consumption for these computing segments.”
Microsoft is developing its own Ampere Altra processor which it says was architected for scale-out cloud environments to deliver efficient performance and help reduce overall environmental impact.
Intel has a sustainability road map having already committed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in global operations by 2040 and to building more sustainable chips.
In every future scenario the power draw of the chosen chip design is becoming a sustainability consideration.
Serverfarm does not advise on chip architecture. But it does work closely with customers to ensure maximum power efficiency is achieved across every part of the physical technology stack. This can only be done through greater collaboration across every discipline in the value chain.
Data Center + IT Collaboration to Cut Carbon
Addressing the ESG, decarbonization and sustainability challenges to providing net zero data centers and IT. A paper for CTOs, CIOs and Data Center professionals.
