![]() Coughlin is the money person and was a partner at Spectrum Equity Investors, a private equity firm with $5 billion in capital that was focused on telecommunications and digital media. (And we think they will.) The racks scale to 50 kilowatts in the new datacenter from the get-go.Ĭolovore was co-founded by Sean Holzknecht, who was vice president of operations at Evocative and founded another datacenter operator called Emerytech Data Center after a stint running multiple central offices in San Francisco for Pacific Bell. ![]() ) It has about 29,000 square feet of space, and like SJC01, will only offer liquid cooled racks and possibly some direct liquid cooling if customers request it. ( There is a metaphor if we ever saw one. ![]() Its SJC02 datacenter, set to open in Q2 2024, is going to be occupying that UNIXSurplus building, which it is leasing from Ellis Partners. The racks started out at 20 kilowatts of power and cooling, and have expanded to 35 kilowatts. The SJC01 facility has been expanded incrementally, with a 2 megawatt expansion inside the facility that was done in February 2022, to reach closer to its full 9 megawatt load. The company’s SJC01 datacenter weighs in at 24,000 square feet, which is compact thanks to the liquid cooling, has been operational since 2014. And that is precisely how Ben Coughlin, co-founder, chairman, and chief financial officer of Colovore, sees it.Ĭolovore came to our attention because it is the place where Cerebras Systems is hosting its “Andromeda” cluster of sixteen of its CS-2 wafer-scale computing systems, which delivers over 1 exaflops of half-precision FP16 floating point math for training AI models, which is shown in the feature image above in the datacenter out on Space Park Drive near San Jose Mineta International Airport – and oddly enough across the street from the UNIXSurplus Computer Store and a stone’s throw away from datacenters run by Digital Realty, Equinix, Evocative, and Tata Communications.įounded in 2012, just when the GPU-accelerated AI boom was starting, Colovore has raised $8 million in funding to date and has just one datacenter so far. Or, if you do it right, maybe the best place because the customer demand is through the freaking roof. And so, we are going to do that starting with Colovore, which is based in Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley and perhaps the worst place to run a datacenter. If you want to get a sense of what companies are really doing with AI infrastructure, and the issues of processing and network capacity, power, and cooling that they are facing, what you need to do is talk to some co-location datacenter providers.
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