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Amazon Pledges to Continue Aggressive Data Center Expansion
Amazon Pledges to Continue Aggressive Data Center Expansion

Bloomberg

time3 days ago

  • Business
  • Bloomberg

Amazon Pledges to Continue Aggressive Data Center Expansion

By and Edward Ludlow Save Inc. 's cloud services chief says the company is aggressively expanding server farms globally and looking to boost access to the latest artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia Corp. Amazon Web Services, the world's largest seller of rented computing power and data storage, opened a cluster of data centers in Mexico earlier this year, AWS Chief Executive Officer Matt Garman said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The cloud division is also building out new facilities in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan, Garman said.

AI agents will do the grunt work of coding
AI agents will do the grunt work of coding

Axios

time20-05-2025

  • Business
  • Axios

AI agents will do the grunt work of coding

AI makers are flooding the market with a new wave of coding agents promising to relieve human programmers of busy work. The big picture: Automating the routine aspects of technical labor will almost certainly transform and downsize the tech industry workforce — but there's no guarantee it will alleviate software development's biggest headaches. Driving the news: Microsoft Monday announced a new AI coding agent for Github Copilot that's good for "time-consuming but boring tasks." "The agent excels at low-to-medium complexity tasks in well-tested codebases, from adding features and fixing bugs to extending tests, refactoring code, and improving documentation," Microsoft's post says. Github's move follows Friday's announcement by OpenAI of Codex, a "research preview" of a new coding agent that can "work on many tasks in parallel." Notably, the Github Copilot agent is powered not by Codex or any other tool from Microsoft partner OpenAI, but instead by Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet, per Microsoft. The intrigue: Tech leaders have sent mixed messages on just how much work they see ahead for programmers. Amazon Web Services' then-boss Matt Garman caused a stir last year when he suggested the need for human coding could disappear within two years, However, he later told Axios that his comments were taken out of context. "I think it's incredibly exciting time for developers," he told us last year. "There's a whole bunch of work that developers do today that's not fun." "If you think about documenting your code, if you think about upgrading Java versions, if you think about looking for bugs, that's that's not what developers love doing. They love thinking about, 'How do I go solve problems?' " Why it matters: Business transformations that start in Silicon Valley usually make their way into the wider economy. Silicon Valley's "dogfooding" tradition ensures that it will avidly apply new technologies to its own business first. Both Microsoft and Google are now claiming that roughly 30% of the code they produce is AI-written. Coding agents, like other generative AI tools, continue to "hallucinate," or make stuff up. But programs, unlike other kinds of language products, have a built-in pass-fail test: Either they run or they don't. That gives programmers one early checkpoint to guard against bad code. Yes, but: AI-generated code likely also contains tons of other errors that don't show up today. That will cause nightmares in the future as programs age, get used more widely, or face unexpected tests from unpredictable users. Zoom out: The software industry's assumption that what works inside tech will work everywhere else could be sorely tested when these techniques get pushed out beyond Silicon Valley. AI's usefulness in writing code may not easily transfer to other kinds of work that are less abstract and more rooted in physical reality — witness the many setbacks and challenges the autonomous vehicle industry has faced. Between the lines: Nobody doubts that AI means tech firms will write more code using fewer employees. But no one yet knows exactly where these companies will continue to find competitive advantage. AI models are much more likely to be interchangeable than human organizations and cultures. What's next: As coding agents shoulder routine labor, product designers and creative engineers will use "vibe coding" — improvisational rough drafting via "throw it at the wall and see what works" AI prompting — to do fast prototyping of new ideas. The bottom line: The biggest challenges in creating software tend to arise from poorly conceived specifications and misinterpretations of data, both of which are often rooted in confusion over human needs.

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon boss
UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon boss

Yahoo

time15-05-2025

  • Business
  • Yahoo

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon boss

The UK needs more nuclear energy to power the data centres needed for artificial intelligence (AI), the boss of the world's largest cloud computing company has said. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is part of the retail giant Amazon, plans to spend £8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years. A data centre is a warehouse filled with computers that remotely power services such as AI, data processing, and streaming, but a single one can use the same amount of energy as a small town. Matt Garman, chief executive of AWS, told the BBC nuclear is a "great solution" to data centres' energy needs as "an excellent source of zero carbon, 24/7 power". AWS is the single largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world and has funded more than 40 renewable solar and wind farm projects in the UK. The UK's 500 data centres currently consume 2.5% of all electricity in the UK, while Ireland's 80 hoover up 21% of the country's total power, with those numbers projected to hit 6% and 30% respectively by 2030. The body that runs the UK's power grid estimates that by 2050 data centres alone will use nearly as much energy as all industrial users consume today. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Matt Garman said that future energy needs were central to AWS planning process. "It's something we plan many years out," he said. "We invest ahead. I think the world is going to have to build new technologies. I believe nuclear is a big part of that particularly as we look 10 years out." Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud business Trump calls Bezos as Amazon says no plan to show tariff price rises French company EDF is currently building a giant new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset and a decision to build another one at Sizewell in Suffolk is pending. EDF's UK Chair Alex Chisholm unsurprisingly agrees with Mr Garman. "Why are data centre providers turning to nuclear? They will need a lot of energy, reliably," Mr Chisholm told the BBC. "Replication of Hinkley Point C, alongside the roll out of SMRs, can power Britain's digital economy." SMRs refers to small modular reactors which are the size of a football stadium as opposed to the size of a whole town, like Sizewell or Hinkley. Amazon is already partnering with SMR firms in Washington and Virginia to develop SMRs and would be a natural customer for Rolls Royce which is developing its own SMR designs here. A spokesperson for the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero told the BBC that modular reactors "will play a particularly important roles in growing energy-hungry sectors like AI and we're shaking up the planning rules to make it easier to build nuclear power stations across the country" But this technology is many years away and new grid connections already take years to establish. Jess Ralston at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit said: "Investors can be waiting years for grid connections holding back growth." "Nuclear could be a way of supply data centre's power needs, but hardly any SMRs have been built anywhere in the world and traditional nuclear remains very expensive and takes a long time to build. So, it may be a while, if ever, for this to be a viable solution". AWS estimates that 52% of businesses are using AI in some way – with a new business adopting it at a rate of one a minute. Mr Garman said this is a good thing. "AI is one of the most transformative technologies since the internet. It's going to have a significant effect on almost every part of our lives." He said he understands why many are nervous. "With any technology that is sufficiently new or hard to understand, people are probably appropriately scared of it initially, until they better understand it so that initial response is not particularly surprising." He added that he "would caution against" international regulation. "The technology is moving at such a rate that I don't believe there's the knowledge of the folks that are building those regulations are going to be able to keep up. "I think the most likely case is that those regulations would accomplish the exact inverse thing they are trying to do." However, he admitted he thinks a lot about the responsibility of releasing AI into the world. "Anytime you're building that much of a transformational technology, its important to think about those controls and guardrails so that it can go towards the betterment of society not the detriment. "So absolutely. I think a ton about that, for sure."

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