Apple data centers consumed more than 2.5 billion Kwh over 2024
Used to power eight operational data centers and colocation facilities
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Apple to invest $175m in expanding North Carolina data center
Campus in Maiden, Catawba County to add 237,600 sq ft fata center
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Apple to spend $1bn on Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems - report
Equates to approximately 250 servers
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Apple launches second clean energy fund in China
Worth an estimated 720 million yuan ($99.26m)
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Apple plans new AI server factory as part of $500bn US manufacturing push
Will also expand existing data centers
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Apple and SpaceX bring Starlink support to the iPhone
Included in Apple's latest iOS update
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Alibaba, Apple, and Synopsys become latest members of UALink Consortium
Consortium now has more than 65 members
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Apple working with Broadcom to develop AI-specific server chip - report
Codenamed Baltra, the chips are expected to be mass-produced by 2026
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Apple uses Amazon's Graviton and Inferentia chips, also explores Trainium2
Apple's Benoit Dupin went on stage at AWS Re:Invent 2024
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Apple wants Foxconn to manufacture its AI servers; plans to use M4 chips in Apple Intelligence servers from next year
Company’s lack of data center server design experience could cause issues
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Apple takes 20 percent stake in Globalstar, commits $1.1bn for iPhone satellite services
Apple is now a satellite company
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Nvidia briefly becomes world's most valuable company
From GPU king to market king
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Apple launches data center in Waukee, Iowa
Facility online four years after originally planned
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Apple, Nvidia in talks to invest in OpenAI at $100bn+ valuation
Microsoft could also put more money into the ChatGPT maker
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Cray-1 supercomputer from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's collection to be auctioned off
Collection includes supercomputers, mainframes, microcomputers, and personal computers, with some hardware dating back to the 1950s
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Apple to use Google's TPUs for AI instead of Nvidia GPUs
Apple Intelligence rolls out beta test this week
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Shares in Nvidia dropped 15 percent in two weeks; Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple also fall
Industry experts cite concerns around AI revenue
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Apple to build data center in Taiwan - report
Department of Digital Development yet to confirm project
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Apple announces Private Cloud Compute for AI processing
New solution comprised of custom built silicon and new operating system
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Apple working with TSMC to develop AI data center chips
Unclear if efforts will ever see the light of day
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Apple hires former Google data center AI exec to lead multi-cloud effort
Sumit Gupta also spent years at IBM and Nvidia
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Apple data centers used more than 2.3bn kWh of electricity in 2023
Including colocation facilities, but not cloud
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Apple signs solar PPA in Spain
ib vogt signs deal with iPhone maker
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Apple deploys novel data center air filter that cuts waste and energy use
Also details water-saving projects
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Nvidia Omniverse comes to Apple Vision Pro, streamed from data centers
Spatial computing meets accelerated computing
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‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio
As Apple is reportedly interested in building in central Ohio
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Apple is spending millions of dollars per day on generative AI training compute budget
Believes its internal systems are more advanced than GPT-3.5
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Amazon, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, and Samsung in talks to invest in Arm's $60 billion IPO
Big tech looks to keep the chip designer neutral