Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
June 16, 2025
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: June 16, 2025. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Crusoe, the industry's first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, is partnering with Polar to establish Crusoe's first data center presence in mainland Europe. Crusoe has signed a contract for a 12 megawatt (MW) facility located in Norway, which will be powered entirely by 100% hydroelectric energy.
IBM unveiled its plans to build the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing. Estimated to be delivered by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and is expected to perform 20,000 times more operations than today's quantum computers.
IBM is aiming to radically simplify the enterprise data stack, introducing software that unifies, governs, and activates the unstructured enterprise data necessary to power AI agents and other advanced AI applications. The two new products include IBM watsonx.data integration and IBM watsonx.data intelligence. Select capabilities from both products will also be available through watsonx.data, IBM's hybrid, open data lakehouse for managing the entire data-for-AI lifecycle in a single experience.
IBM is doubling down on its commitment to SaaS, further supporting its evolution with AI, according to David La Rose, GM, IBM Ecosystem, Sell. The integration of HashiCorp's infrastructure automation and security capabilities into IBM's portfolio creates lift for partners reselling the products while strengthening hybrid cloud offerings.
News From SHARE
Rebecca Roling is now SHARE's new executive director and her experience in wireless technology and in creating an association from the ground-up are assets that will take SHARE and its members into the future, wrote Serena Agusto-Cox in a recent blog post for SHARE.
Think About It
For several years now, cloud computing has been heralded as the ultimate solution for IT infrastructure, promising scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. Organizations of all sizes rushed to the cloud, enticed by its pay-as-you-go pricing and freedom from on-prem hardware constraints. However, an interesting shift is occurring: Some organizations are repatriating workloads from the cloud back to on-prem or hybrid environments. This phenomenon, known as cloud repatriation, is challenging the assumption that "cloud-first" is always the best strategy.