SUNDAY IN THE YOTTAVERSE

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Not Your Father’s Data Center Podcast:

The Foundations of Digital Infrastructure 

Raymond Hawkins

George Rockett

Raymond Hawkins, CRO of Compass Datacenters, chronicles the journey of George Rockett, Founder of Yotta and DataCenter Dynamics (DCD), from his university days to his foray into advertising sales which, inspired by the ‘zero downtime’ concept, led to the inception of DCD.

Don’t miss this insightful conversation where Rockett touches on the parallels between the aviation and digital infrastructure industries, and gain insight into his vision for how Yotta will help shape the future and change the trajectory of digital infrastructure. Watch the video podcast now!

PARTNER SHOWCASE

Yotta 2024 is proud to partner with The Open Compute Project (OCP). The Open Compute Project is a global collaborative Community of hyperscale data center operators, telecom, colocation providers and enterprise IT users, working with the product and solution vendor ecosystem to develop open innovations deployable from the cloud to the edge. OCP fosters the Community to meet the market and shape the future, taking hyperscale-led innovations to everyone. OCP Community-developed open innovations strive to benefit all, optimized through the lens of impact, efficiency, scale and sustainability. 

ICYMI

NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY

• Microsoft to invest $2.2bn in cloud computing and AI in Malaysia.
• GPU cloud firm CoreWeave closes $1.1bn Series C funding round.
• AMD’s MI300 AI GPU sales drive 80 percent growth in data center segment.

• Microsoft signs $10bn, 10GW energy framework deal with Brookfield. (Don’t miss Microsoft’s Director of Energy Research, Sean James, speak at Yotta.)

• AWS on track for $100bn annual revenue run rate, CapEx to “meaningfully increase” due to AI.

• Google to invest $1bn in expanding Virginia data center campuses. (We are excited to have Google Cloud’s, Global Director, Data Center Energy and Location Strategy, Gary Demasi, share his insights at Yotta.)
• Growing memory chip demand fuels 933% increase in Samsung Electronics’ operating profit.

• Google announces $2bn data center campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

• Tesla spent $1bn on AI infrastructure in Q1, Elon Musk posits using cars as distributed compute.

• Meta to build $800m data center in Montgomery, Alabama.
• Oracle to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in Digital Realty’s Northern Virginia data center. (Hear from SVP Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Karan Batta and CTO Digital Realty’s Chris Sharp at Yotta.)
• Dominion connected 15 data centers totaling 933MW in Virginia in 2023, 15 more expected in 2024.

ONE MORE THING

Coming Soon: a sneak peek at the Innovate Arena participants! Innovate Arena is Yotta’s version of Shark Tank, featuring 24 startups and innovative companies who will deliver 7-minute rapid-fire presentations on their cutting-edge ideas and groundbreaking solutions. They will compete across six categories, from compute to cooling, as a panel of experts from the digital infrastructure industry evaluates and judges their proposals.