The data centers in Mumbai and Sydney are expected to close in July and September respectively, a notice from the company read.
Azure Compute Fleet, a new service designed to simplify Azure provisioning, is also among the cloud infrastructure updates unveiled at Microsoft's Build 2024 event in Seattle.
Trillium, the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), is nearly five times more efficient than its predecessor, TPUv5, in peak compute performance and memory bandwidth, Google said.
The investment spread over the next four years will see the company update its infrastructure to support AI workloads and upskill 840,000 people in AI.
Apart from expanding its partnership on Azure’s AI and other cloud services, the investment will see Microsoft President Brad Smith join the board of G42.
Infrastructure enhancements targeting AI workloads include updates to compute hardware, new Nvidia GPU offerings, and storage optimization.
Other updates to the service includes new racks, Apigee integration, and survivability features.
The new managed service is designed for render management tasks for teams creating computer-generated 2D or 3D graphics, and visual effects.
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