Setting the Foundation for Data Centers of the Future

Rapid advancements in AI are generating excitement and driving innovation across diverse sectors, but scaling to meet its potential requires significant resources. This highlights the critical importance of sustainability, efficiency, and optimization, prompting the transformation of data centers into platforms that enable collective progress. From solar-powered hyperscale to certified immersion cooling and AI-optimized hybrid cloud, Intel is helping power the future of infrastructure. And we’re building it to scale, securely and sustainably. 

Powering Progress with the Sun 

While enterprises around the world are increasingly drawn to Dubai’s expanding digital ecosystem, they require data centers that can take their operations to the next level and meet increasingly important sustainability targets. Green data centers represent a critical solution, but the inability to ensure they’re also scalable and built to handle enterprise-level workloads has been a source of frustration. The Moro Hub Green Data Center, powered by Intel® Deep Learning Boost in Intel® Xeon® processors, was designed with that challenge in mind — meeting the demand for sustainability, data sovereignty, and cybersecurity, while maintaining high performance for technology like AI. 

Roughly the size of six American football fields, Moro Hub is the largest solar-powered data center in the world and delivers accelerated AI inference performance without the need for add-on accelerators — which translates into lower TCO. Built-in, enhanced hardware security in Intel Xeon processors, like Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), creates layered security features for better protection. Moro Hub’s cloud-service is compliant with Dubai’s data sovereignty requirements, features top sustainability credentials, and produces about 10,500 fewer tons of CO2 annually. That’s equal to the amount absorbed by 326,000 trees, leading to a lower carbon footprint.     

Immersion Cooling, Certified

As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) elevate the need for powerful data center infrastructure, IT operators require more efficient, scalable, and sustainable thermal cooling solutions. We’ve collaborated with Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc. to validate Intel® Data Center Certified for Immersion Cooling, a first-of-its-kind solution that sets a new industry standard for cooling efficiency and long-term performance with the first immersion solution Intel Xeon processors. This marks a critical step forward in delivering energy-efficient and scalable computing infrastructure in the evolving age of AI.  

Through extensive testing and rigorous validation by Intel's Advanced Data Center Development Laboratory, this solution combines the power of Intel Xeon processors with the expertise of fellow pioneers in single-phase immersion cooling. Intel and Shell are exploring future collaboration opportunities to certify Intel’s latest generation processors for use with Shell fluids. The development allows data centers to deploy proven, high-performance infrastructure with confidence that it can handle the demands of modern workloads. We also offer a Xeon Processor Single-Phase Immersion Warranty Rider that affirms confidence in the durability, efficiency, and compatibility of immersion-cooled IT infrastructure with Shell Immersion Cooling Fluids.  

Scaling AI with Confidence  

AI can help drive efficiency and competitiveness, but concerns related to cost, scalability, performance, security, and more often stand in the way of organizations realizing those goals. These problems are compounded when enterprises consider deploying AI in the hybrid cloud. IBM Cloud — the first cloud service provider to make Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators available to its enterprise customers — represents an opportunity to lower the costs and complexities associated with deploying AI applications.   

Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are specifically designed to help meet the demands for GenAI, large model inferencing, and model fine-tuning while supporting an open development framework. They’re ideal for multi-model large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which helps streamline integration with IBM’s watsonx data platform. Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators also offer significant performance-related advancements over Intel Gaudi 2 accelerators, with 4x the compute, 2x the networking bandwidth, and 1.5x the memory bandwidth.And, by running GenAI workloads on Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators on IBM Cloud, enterprises can more cost-effectively test, innovate, and deploy AI inferencing solutions. This helps scale enterprise AI securely with optimized price/performance.

The foundation on which data centers are being built is changing — and Intel is innovating. We’re committed to powering innovations like solar-powered centers, cooling technology, AI-optimized hybrid cloud and more so enterprises around the world can embrace the potential of AI at scale, securely and sustainably. That’s the power of Intel Inside®.