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is evolving in the IT space,” Nirupa says.“ This is critical for us to deliver solutions to meet future demand.”
She credits the company’ s partnerships like those with NVIDIA and other manufacturers as essential in charting how AI architectures are changing.
“ You can see that a lot of the new architectures are moving from alternating current( AC) to direct current( DC) because it’ s more efficient, which means that the way the electrical infrastructure needs to be designed is changing as well,” she adds.“ This means we have to keep up with what’ s happening with server manufacturers and the chip manufacturers to stay ahead of the game.”
As AI moves towards inference workloads, data centre design is also expected to evolve.
“ We can see architectures will become more decentralised, closer to where the demand is,” Nirupa adds.“ We therefore expect edge
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