Amazon (AMZN) announced several changes to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers to better equip its infrastructure for the era of artificial intelligence (AI). AWS, Amazon’s cloud business, has unveiled several updates to its data center infrastructure to ensure it can meet customers’ AI needs.
Yahoo Finance Technical Editor Dan Howley sits down with Prasad Kalyanaraman, AWS VP of Infrastructure, to discuss the announcements and what investors need to know about AWS’ AI efforts.
Kalyanaraman describes four key areas of AWS’s work: design simplification, power, cooling, and capacity.
“We have made many improvements in terms of simplifying our electrical and mechanical design that will further improve uptime for our customers,” he told Yahoo Finance.
“The second part is that generative AI requires a significant amount of power for these racks and for these chips, and we’ve also been innovative in the design of delivering power to these servers.”
“(The) third part is our cooling design,” says the AWS vice president, adding: “We have innovated in such a way that we can retrofit our existing data centers for liquid cooling as well as air cooling.
“Finally, our improvements in mechanical and electrical efficiency, to the tune of approximately 40 to 46 percent, have actually improved the capacity we can offer our customers in the exact same data center.”
Ahead of Nvidia’s (NVDA) official launch of its new AI chip, Blackwell, Kalyanaraman talks about the ongoing partnership between AWS and Nvidia and how the latest chip fits into the company’s AI drive . “Nvidia’s latest set of chips, Blackwell processors, requires liquid cooling, and so we have innovated in a way that we can handle liquid cooling infrastructure in addition to air cooling infrastructure.”
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This article was written by Naomi Buchanan.