AI Data Centers Are Becoming 'Mind-Blowingly Large'
ZDNet, Friday, December 27th, 2024
Clusters of GPU chips in coming years will have to connect over distances longer than a mile, says the CEO of this fiber-optics firm.
The building of more powerful data centers for artificial intelligence, stuffed with more and more GPU chips, is driving data centers to enormous size, according to the chief executive of Ciena, which makes fiber-optic networking equipment purchased by cloud computing vendors to connect their data centers together.
"Some of these large data centers are just mind-blowingly large, they are enormous," says Gary Smith, CEO of Hannover, Maryland-based Ciena.