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Can photonics make the AI data center boom more palatable?

  • May 18
  • 1 min read

PC MAG   —  Executives with such photonics efforts as NTT Data's Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) project sketch out a new world of data centers in which operators can place them next to the cleanest and most abundant power instead of optimizing locations for bandwidth.


“You're not really interested if your GPUs are on the rack just below or 100 kilometers away,” Marco Provolo, head of IOWN at NTT Data’s Italian subsidiary, said in an interview at the Japanese telco’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, California.


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