You founded DatacenterDynamics over 20 years ago and are launching a new platform, Yotta. What is Yotta, and why is now the right time to launch it?
Yotta is my response to a more complicated proposition around digital infrastructure. Data centers are just one part of a much bigger machine. For decades, it’s been OK for organizations to work in silos and rely on the abstraction layers, but this is not the case anymore.
The main driving force behind this is the rapid growth in accelerated computing and AI. NVIDIA recently launched its next generation H200 AI chip, and Cerebras unveiled a 2-Exaflop AI Supercomputer running on its AI-specific processor, Waferscale Engine-2, both incredibly power hungry machines; and the list of entrants to this technology race is growing.What happens when these computing forms become pervasive? Right now, we’re looking at eye-watering requirements of energy and raw materials.
There has always been an unspoken trust between OEMs, data center operators, network operators, and the wider ecosystem. Trust that when the IT org racks and rolls their servers into a data center, it will have adequate cooling. Trust that when a server connects to a power source, the load will be handled. Trust that there’s enough capacity to fulfill everyone’s requirements. But that system might be breaking down. Yotta strives to build a more collaborative forum for these challenges to be solved.
How will Yotta contribute to a broader conversation?
Yotta is a platform where conversations will occur in an open, shared space rather than behind closed doors. Whenever you open a discussion, you need a forum to host and enable it. The role of B2B media is to see where the conversation is going and create a space for the dialogue. This discussion is so big and powerful that it must be on the most prominent stages, where consumer media and other stakeholders look at it and say ‘Wow.’
I aspire for Yotta to achieve the same level of recognition as CES (Consumer Technology Association) in the national press. It can’t be a parochial discussion anymore; it needs a world-class stage.
