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New technologies cycle through visibility phases, surfacing when breakthroughs are made, and quantum computing has just had a number. Still, the buzziness of the previous year seems to have faded. Is quantum getting boring? Analyst Gabriella Brown joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss why it’s not. New records have been set in qubit counts, and practical applications are flowering. Growing numbers of tools make it easier to put quantum to work, and more businesses are harnessing its possibilities.

As the New Year dawns, there’s a lot to consider in tech. Simon Robinson kicks off the year with a look at the trends reports for the coming year with host Eric Hanselman. This year the coverage has expanded even further than the traditional 451 Research Previews with the larger TMT view, looking at cloud, multichannel and broadband, fintech, customer experience, security, IoT, data, AI and analytics, workforce productivity, media, DevOps, cloud-native and more. And yes, even the metaverse!

The energy impacts of technology have been a concern for some time, but the rapid growth of AI has added additional pressure and speculation about the short and long term needs of the datacenter industry. The Datacenter and Energy Innovation Summit will be tackling a host of these topics, from energy to investments on October 30th, in Washington, D.C.. Analysts Kelly Morgan, Steve Piper and Dan Thompson join host Eric Hanselman to explore the topics that are at the heart of the event, as well as the challenges faced by energy providers, datacenter operators and the technology sector.

Technology-driven increases in energy demands have upset the long-term balance of energy grid operators. Short-term increases in a business that plans over decades has datacenter builders and investors going to new lengths to secure the power they require. Nuclear power is back in favor, but the plans for Small Modular Reactors (SMR) from a year ago have been usurped by moves to repurpose existing facilities, with Apple and Microsoft both inking recent deals. At the same time, the large investments required to secure AI infrastructure are leading to some creative financing. Listen to get the details and attend the Summit for even more.

More S&P Global Content:

• Datacenter and Energy Innovation Summit 2024
• Next in Tech | Ep. 177: Datacenters and AI
• Next in Tech | Episode 169: AI’s Impact on Datacenter Power
• Datacenters and energy 101 — Powering through renewable intermittency Powering the AI revolution — opportunities and tensions in datacenter and energy markets
• 2024 US Datacenters and Energy Report

Credits:

• Host/Author: Eric Hanselman
• Guests: Kelly Morgan, Steve Piper, Dan Thompson
• Producer/Editor: Donovan Menard
• Published With Assistance From: Sophie Carr, Feranmi Adeoshun, Kyra Smith

Increasing power densities in the devices that are populating datacenters are pushing their cooling capabilities to new technologies. Perkins Liu returns to dig into liquid cooling and progress at the Open Compute Summit with host Eric Hanselman. The OCP is working on extending its ecosystem efforts to liquid cooling as generative AI and other high performance computing uses look to leverage its greater capacity and sustainability. High powered GPU’s are driving direct to chip cooling.

Technology’s impacts are felt in many areas, including podcasts! We pull back the curtain a little with producers Darren Rose and Kyle Cangialosi joining host Eric Hanselman to look at the transformations that are driving media production. Concerns about deep fakes are all the rage, but the realities of the technical capabilities are still progressing in their ability to deliver professional quality media. Our podcast is benefiting from AI-powered studio tools, too.