AWS Says Its AI Data Centers Just Got Even More Efficient - Here's How
ZDNet, Monday, December 2nd, 2024
Home Business Data Centers AWS says its AI data centers just got even more efficient - here's how Liquid cooling, renewable diesel, and a host of infrastructure changes make Amazon's cloud service four times more efficient than on-premise computing, the company explains at re:Invent.
At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Amazon's AWS cloud computing service disclosed numerous changes to its computing infrastructure -- with a big emphasis on liquid cooling and renewable energy -- to make the case that its service is four times more efficient than on-premise computing.
"AWS's infrastructure is currently up to 4.1 times more efficient than on-premises infrastructure, and when workloads are optimized on AWS, the associated carbon footprint can be reduced by up to 99%," the company said in a press release, citing a report it commissioned and posted online.