Techno-futurists love to dream up visions of the future. Invariably, these are worlds where everything is under control—where every problem has a solution, and the future unfolds exactly as planned. We do seem to be moving toward some sort of centralized loss of agency.
The representational structures of the Internet governance institutions are highly varied (indicating once again that there is no “multistakeholder model”), but they all have one thing in common: decision-making power is vested in non-state actors.
The rapid expansion of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads could see 40% of data centers constrained by power shortages by 2027, according to Gartner.
Chiplets and 3D devices, long discussed in the future tense, are a growing sector of the market. Moore’s Law? It’s still alive, but manufacturers and designers are following it by different means than simply shrinking transistors.
Monitoring traffic at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) is a long-standing operational practice. It is essential for several reasons related to the entire Internet infrastructure’s stability, security, and efficiency.
If you want to sell a lot of hardware to support AI workloads, then the best way to do that is to convince every country on Earth that AI is so important that they must have a lot of it within their borders. Just in case some political or economic crisis makes AI technology unavailable through the world-spanning cloud builders.
The number of online-accessibility lawsuits has grown rapidly of late. In 2023, about 2,800 such suits clogged federal courts, near the all-time high, recorded the previous year, and up from just 814 in 2017.
During the meeting, I was asked to simplify the concept of power budget calculations for new hires, and I was happy to oblige. I decided to share my brief discussion on power budget calculations and related parameters with APNIC blog readers as well.
While it doesn’t look like there was any malicious intent in this case, the big takeaway for companies of any size should be that it doesn’t change the outcome. Online businesses that release customer data without the express permission of users will still be in breach of data privacy regulations like GDPR and the regulator may see fit to sanction them.
Increasingly, datacenter operators are putting their faith in the promise of miniaturized nuclear power plants – better known as small modular reactors (SMRs) – to fuel their ever-growing energy demands.
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