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Silver plummets more than 16%, erasing a two-day recovery
Silver fell sharply, erasing a two-day recovery, as the white metal struggled to find a price floor following a historic market rout. Gold also declined.
Spot silver tumbled as much as 16.6% on Thursday, having briefly recovered above $90 an ounce in early Asian trading. Meanwhile, spot gold dropped as much as 3.5% in choppy trading.
“Sentiment seems to have turned soggy across most asset classes, including regional equities and metals,” said Christopher Wong, a strategist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd. “This underscores fragile sentiment” and has created “a feedback loop amid thin market liquidity,” he said.
Precious metals soared last month in a rally underpinned by speculative momentum, geopolitical upheaval and concerns about the US central bank’s independence. The surge came to a sudden halt at the end of last week, with silver seeing its biggest ever daily drop on Friday and gold plunging the most since 2013.
Markets are weighing the policy implications of Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Federal Reserve chair, with President Donald Trump saying Wednesday he would not have nominated him for the role had he expressed a desire to hike interest rates. Trump said in an NBC News interview there was “not much” doubt the Fed would lower rates again — a tailwind for precious metals, which don’t pay interest.
“Price action is likely to remain volatile until there is greater certainty on the monetary policy outlook,” Standard Chartered Plc analysts including Sudakshina Unnikrishnan said in a note. Some of this near-term volatility is resulting from investors redeeming their holdings in exchange-traded products, they said, but “structural drivers remain intact and we continue to expect a rebuild to the upside.”
Silver plunged 12.7% to $76.9495 an ounce as of 11:18 am in Singapore. Spot gold was 2.1% lower at $4,859.20 an ounce. Platinum and palladium fell. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index rose 0.1%.
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Sanju Samson Unlikely To Play Against USA: Sanju Samson’s leave from playing eleven decided! Difficult to play in the first match
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Sanju Samson Unlikely To Play Against USA: Ishan Kishan has played explosive innings since his return to the T20 team, while Sanju Samson has been a continuous flop. In the South Africa warm-up match, Ishaan scored 53 runs in 20 balls, Sanju Samson was not given a chance to play. From this it has become clear that he probably will not get a chance in the playing eleven in this tournament.
New Delhi. Sanju Samson was India’s first choice wicketkeeper batsman in the T20 series against New Zealand last month but everything has changed after just 5 matches. He did not bat in the warm-up match against South Africa on Wednesday (4 February). Ishan Kishan started the innings in place of Samson and played a explosive inning of 53 runs in just 20 balls. This left-handed batsman from Jharkhand hit 2 fours and 7 sixes and batted at a strike rate of 265.00. From this it has become clear that Sanju’s poor form has got him out of the playing eleven.
When South Africa set out to chase the target of 241 runs, Ishan Kishan kept wickets. Even after flopping in batting in the last T20 against New Zealand, the responsibility of wicketkeeper was taken from Sanju in the middle of the match. In the only warm-up match of India’s T20 World Cup 2026, Ishaan did the opening as well as wicket-keeping, making it almost clear that Ishaan will get a chance in the playing eleven in place of Samson in the first match of the World Cup to be held against America on 7th February in Mumbai.
Last month, Samson got five chances to cement his place in India’s playing eleven for the T20 World Cup 2026 matches against New Zealand. He could score only 10, 6, 0, 24 and 6 runs. Ishan Kishan, who was returning to the team after two years, played innings of 8, 76, 28, 103. In the second T20, Ishaan scored 76 runs in just 32 balls and in the fifth match he scored a century in 42 balls. Even in the warm-up match, he continued his form and scored 53 runs in 20 balls.
The India-South Africa warm-up match was an audition for some players. From this it has become clear that Harshit Rana and Kuldeep Yadav will not get a place in the playing eleven in the match against America. Harshit bowled only one over against South Africa and gave 16 runs, while Kuldeep gave 25 runs in two overs and did not take any wicket.
India’s probable playing eleven:
Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav, Axar Patel, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakraborty.
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MTA chairman Lieber, Sen. Mattera clash over $35M security contract
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A joint New York State budget hearing devolved into a shouting match when a Long Island Republican challenged the MTA’s Hochul-appointed chairman over a $35 million security deal, questioning why contracted guards appear to be letting fare evaders walk amid claims the agency is rife with waste.
State Sen. Mario Mattera, R-St. James, sharply questioned Janno Lieber over a $35 million contract for private security guards at subway stations as the transit authority grapples with rising fare evasion amid higher fares for paying straphangers.
Mattera previously spoke out in opposition to the major contract with Allied Security Services of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, as the latest example of systemic waste from the transit agency’s coffers.
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Lieber initially objected to the line of questioning, saying that anyone working as a gate guard for Allied is a New Yorker.
“It’s not a bunch of Pennsylvanians,” he said.
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Mattera pointed to reports in the New York Post and elsewhere saying guards are letting people essentially jump the turnstiles, including when riders have issues scanning in during the city’s post-Metro Card era.
“Why do we have people helping people avoid tolls? We have videos,” he said.
Lieber became similarly angry after Mattera spoke over him.
“Let me finish. Let me finish,” Lieber said.
“You’re rambling,” Mattera said. “Why do we have this?”
Lieber replied that Allied’s guards reduced fare evasion by more than one-third since the contract was signed, but the two kept shouting over each other before Lieber could be heard yelling, “Shut up.”
“Be quiet,” he said, before Mattera demanded — and received — an apology from the Hochul appointee.
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Police officers patrol the passageway connecting New York City’s Port Authority bus terminal and the Times Square subway station Dec. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Committee Chairman J. Gary Pretlow, D-Mount Vernon, soon slammed his gavel and also yelled “shut up,” admonishing both men.
“Raising voices will not be tolerated,” Pretlow was quoted as saying by the South Shore Press amid the crosstalk.
One guard interviewed by the New York Post said a lot of people don’t want to pay their fare.
“They say, ‘You’re not a cop, you can’t stop it’,” Romuald Zampou told the paper.
One of New York City’s few Republicans in the state Senate, Steve Chan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, said in a statement before the hearing that the guards are no better than “scarecrows.”
“Instead of paying outrageous salaries to people who stand around like scarecrows and do absolutely nothing to stop fare evasion, the MTA and the city must take the handcuffs off our police officers,” said Chan, a former cop.
“Let them issue summonses, make arrests and pressure district attorneys to prosecute fare evaders. We’ve done it before. We know it works.”
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State Sen. Bill Weber, R-Clarkstown, whose suburban commuters often rely on MTA heavy rail out of Suffern, Spring Valley and Tarrytown, said the security guard expenditure is just the latest transit boondoggle.
“It’s clear the MTA needs a full audit, and, now, so do its subcontractors,” Weber said in a statement.
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Who are the past winners, and what’s the history of the T20 World Cup? | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup is set to complete its 10th iteration when India and Sri Lanka host the tournament between February 7 and March 8.
Three nations, including defending champions India, have won the title twice, and many more will eye the trophy with the tournament expanded to 20 teams since 2024.
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list of 4 itemsend of listHow did the T20 World Cup begin, and who were its biggest stars in the past two decades? Here’s a look back at the tournament:
2007: Sparks fly as India-Pakistan meet twice
Host: South Africa
Teams: 12
Final: India vs Pakistan
Winner: India – by five runs
Player of the tournament: Shahid Afridi
It was a tournament of many firsts – 33 T20 international (T20I) player debuts, dozens of individual and team records, and the world’s first T20 champion.
The World Cup got off to a spectacular start when Chris Gayle scored the first T20I century with his 57-ball 117 in the opening match against South Africa.
A few days later, Yuvraj Singh famously hit England fast bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over and in the process, set a new record for the fastest T20I half-century (50 off 12 balls).
India and Pakistan grabbed the headlines in two separate encounters. The rivals were locked in a tied match in the Super 8 stage, resulting in a first-ever T20I bowl-out. Pakistan failed to hit the stumps in three attempts while India struck every time.
A final for the ages, then set alight the cricketing world: India vs Pakistan, last-over finish.
Pakistan needed 13 before Misbah ul Haq brought the equation down to six off four. And then – Pakistan fans look away now – Misbah scooped Joginder Sharma to S Sreesanth at fine leg to set off wild Indian celebrations. Misbah, shocked and heartbroken, remained on his haunches and India were crowned the first T20 world champions.
2009: The Home of Cricket embraces T20
Host: England
Teams: 12
Final: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
Winner: Pakistan – by eight wickets
Player of the tournament: Tillakaratne Dilshan
England’s home T20 World Cup got off to the worst possible start when they lost to the so-called minnows, the Netherlands, at Lord’s – the ground known as the “Home of Cricket”. The hosts still qualified for the Super 8s, but that is where their campaign ended, along with that of holders India and Australia, following two heavy losses.
Pakistan recovered from a typically slow start to find themselves in the semifinals, where Shahid Afridi starred against a South Africa left rueing another last-four stutter.
Tillakaratne Dilshan’s unbeaten 96 off 57 helped Sri Lanka romp to their semi with the West Indies by 57 runs.
The tournament was held a few months after the horrific armed attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus while on tour in Lahore, Pakistan. The pre-final anthems were especially poignant.
Teenage fast bowler Mohammad Amir removed Dilshan for a duck to set off a batting collapse that even Kumar Sangakkara’s 52-ball 64 could not resuscitate.
Afridi duly obliged in the chase with another half-century before posing at the end in his trademark star-man celebration.
2010: England win first-ever men’s World Cup
Host: West Indies
Teams: 12
Final: Australia vs England
Winner: England – by seven wickets
Player of the tournament: Kevin Pietersen
Scheduling changes meant that the West Indies hosted the 2010 tournament less than a year after the previous one.
Afghanistan made their mark with an impressive debut amidst the continuing war at home.
Australia found their typically unforgiving World Cup form on their way to the final. Needing 48 runs in the last three overs, Michael Hussey encapsulated the never-say-die Aussie attitude by dispatching Pakistan’s bowlers – Saeed Ajmal in particular – for four sixes and two fours.
England’s explosive batting lineup powered its way to the nation’s first World Cup, which Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen and co lifted after a seven-wicket win in Barbados.
2012: West Indies spoil Sri Lanka’s house party
Host: Sri Lanka
Teams: 12
Final: Sri Lanka vs West Indies
Winner: West Indies – by 36 runs
Player of the tournament: Shane Watson
When the T20 World Cup finally arrived in South Asia, India – once again – fell short, despite beating archrivals Pakistan by eight wickets in the Super 8s.
Instead, Pakistan were the team to progress on net run rate to face Sri Lanka in the semis.
The hosts’ spin wizards Ajantha Mendis and Rangana Herath proved too wily for Pakistan as the Lankan Lions roared into a home final.
They were joined by the big-hitting West Indies, who beat Australia by 74 runs after amassing 205 – the tournament’s joint-highest total – thanks to Gayle’s 41-ball 75.
In the final, Marlon Samuels capped an incredible year by scoring an unbeaten 78 runs while wickets fell all around him. The below-par target of 137 was enough as Sunil Narine spun a web to dismiss the hosts for 101 in 18.4 overs.
The Caribbean side’s win was termed the rebirth of West Indian cricket as Gayle and co danced away to the Korean pop hit, Gangnam Style.
2014: Veterans shine as new kids added to the block
Host: Bangladesh
Teams: 16
Final: India vs Sri Lanka
Winner: Sri Lanka – by six wickets
Player of the tournament: Virat Kohli
Hong Kong, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates made their T20 World Cup debuts as the tournament was expanded to 16 teams.
The opening match saw the Bengal Tigers bag a nine-wicket win over the hapless Afghanistan, but the hosts then lost to Hong Kong in one of the tournament’s biggest upsets.
In the first semifinal, Sri Lanka undid two years of hurt by dethroning the West Indies with a 27-run win. A few hours later, Kohli showed his supremacy with the bat as his 44-ball 72 overcame a strong South African bowling lineup.
Kohli’s blistering form helped India set a target of 131, but Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene – the leaders of Sri Lanka’s golden generation, who had been on the losing end of the 50-over World Cup final against India three years earlier – set things right.
Kohli’s 319 aggregate runs remain a T20 World Cup record.
2016: Kohli’s World Cup but West Indies win it
Host: India
Teams: 16
Final: England vs West Indies
Winner: West Indies – by four wickets
Player of the tournament: Virat Kohli
India hosted the T20 World Cup for the first time, and with a squad packed with IPL stars, they were the outright favourites.
To the delight of a packed Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata, Kohli powered India in their group to their 11th consecutive win against Pakistan in an ICC World Cup.
Kohli hit a 47-ball 89 to set a target of 193 in the semifinals, but could do little as Lendl Simmons broke more than a billion Indian hearts to send the West Indies through.
The West Indies were reeling late in their chase in the final as England seemed to have done enough, despite a sub-par score of 155. Enter Carlos Brathwaite – a relative unknown – who was left facing the final over from Ben Stokes. Nineteen needed off six balls. Six, six, six, six. Game over! The swashbuckling end left Stokes in tears and prompted West Indies legend Ian Bishop to scream on television: “Carlos Brathwaite, remember the name!”
2021: Pakistan tamed by Australia, again
Host: United Arab Emirates and Oman
Teams: 16
Final: Australia vs New Zealand
Winner: Australia – by eight wickets
Player of the tournament: David Warner
The first ICC World Cup in the post-pandemic era was moved to the Gulf region due to COVID-19-related restrictions in the original host nation, India.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam and his deputy Mohammad Rizwan were in scintillating form in the country’s first victory against India in an ICC World Cup in 13 attempts. It was also India’s first 10-wicket loss in the T20Is.
Pakistan won all five Super 12 matches to progress to the semis, while New Zealand beat India to grab the fourth semifinal spot.
The Kiwis one-upped England in the first semifinal thanks to Daryl Mitchell’s 47-ball 72.
In the other semifinal, Rizwan had seemingly led Pakistan to a competitive score, and Shadab Khan’s leg spin had Australia on the ropes, but some poor fielding, combined with destructive hitting by Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade, took the Aussies through.
Kane Williamson’s 48-ball 85 helped New Zealand set a target of 173 in the final, only for Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh to blow it away with seven balls to spare.
2022: Stokes flips the script in Australia
Host: Australia
Teams: 16
Final: England vs Pakistan
Winner: England – by five wickets
Player of the tournament: Sam Curran
Namibia beat Sri Lanka in the first group match to produce one of the tournament’s biggest shocks. The second one came the next day, when Scotland beat two-time champions West Indies, who also lost to Ireland and were removed in the first round.
Hosts and holders Australia were effectively washed out of the Super 12s by the weather. India did set things right by beating Pakistan in an epic chase, led by who else but Kohli, leaving the Pakistanis to scrape through to the semis by beating a gutsy Zimbabwe.
Pakistan romped to a seven-wicket win against New Zealand in the semifinal to draw comparisons with their triumphant run at the 1992 World Cup.
The next logical step would be to meet England in the final, and the 2010 champions duly obliged by blowing away India. Returning prodigal son Alex Hales struck an unbeaten match-winning 56 in a 10-wicket victory.
The 1992 comparisons remained on course as Pakistan set a middling target in front of a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground, before Haris Rauf gave them a good start with the ball. Stokes flipped the history books, however, to break Pakistani hearts and take England to their second T20 title.
2024: India’s party in the USA and West Indies
Host: USA and West Indies
Teams: 20
Final: India vs South Africa
Winner: India – by seven runs
Player of the tournament: Jasprit Bumrah
This was the year the T20 World Cup went big. Not only did the ICC, for the first time in 17 years and nine editions, expand the T20 World Cup to include 20 teams, but it also decided to take the game to the land of baseball.
New York City played host to India vs Pakistan as cricket finally came home for the South Asian diaspora in the US.
The biggest shock of the tournament, and arguably the biggest in its history, came in the first week when USA defeated Pakistan in their group-stage match. Scores were tied at the end of the second innings, and the host nation recorded one for the history books when they beat the South Asian giants in the Super Over.
Afghanistan were the other big story, as they finally beat Australia and qualified for the semifinals of the World Cup, sparking wild celebrations back home.
India, whose biggest stars were on their way out of the T20 format, remained undefeated and broke South African hearts by pulling off a stunning comeback win in the final. And so, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli walked away as champions.
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‘This Sangh Parivar will ban SC-ST Act also…’ BJP fires on Owaisi’s statement, sharply retaliates
After the Supreme Court ban on the new rules of UGC, protests are taking place on one side and rhetoric is also continuing on the other side. BJP leader and Bihar government minister Dilip Jaiswal has sharply retaliated on a statement by AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi. On Thursday (February 05, 2026), Dilip Jaiswal said on Asaduddin Owaisi’s statement, “What Asaduddin Owaisi is saying is the work of Owaisi and Congress. Both Owaisi Saheb and Congress are the same.”
He said, “The work of these people from the beginning is to scare the Akaliyat (minority) and the Muslims, that BJP will come and eat you whereas Narendra Modi JI has only one slogan ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’, Hindu-Muslim, Sikh-Christian…”
Dilip Jaiswal further said, “If a road is built, do people of one religion go? If a hospital is built, do people of one religion go and get treatment? If a school is built in a village, do people of one religion go? This is the work of Owaisi and Congress. To scare Muslims and keep them separate from BJP by keeping them separate. To run their shops by keeping them separate.”
Need to take the country forward: Dilip Jaiswal
Responding to a question, the BJP leader said that from independence till today, efforts have been made to isolate the Muslims in the country by keeping them away from the BJP, whereas there is a need to take the Muslim brothers, Sikh brothers and all our brothers together to take the country forward.
What has Asaduddin Owaisi said?
In fact, Asaduddin Owaisi has said, “When the UGC regulation came out that there would be no discrimination against any minority boy or girl, backward class or Dalit child in the university, then a storm was created against it. They started having stomach pain. When the government could not save its regulation, the Supreme Court gave a stay. We are also telling our Dalit brothers that if the same attitude continues, then sooner or later they will join hands with the Sangh Parivar on the SC-ST Act too. People will ban this too.”
Suspect faces new terrorism charges in DC shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers
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A Chicago man accused of gunning down two Israeli Embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., is now facing sweeping terrorism charges, with prosecutors saying the deadly ambush was a calculated, ideologically-driven attack meant to terrorize the Jewish community.
Elias Rodriguez, 31, was charged in a 13-count superseding indictment unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court with multiple terrorism-related offenses in the May 21 fatal shootings of two Israeli Embassy staff members outside the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C.
Rodriguez was previously charged with the murder of a foreign official, causing death through the use of a firearm and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence along with two federal counts of hate crime resulting in death and two counts each of first-degree premeditated murder while armed and assault with intent to kill while armed.
The superseding indictment adds four counts of acts of terrorism while armed, two counts each of first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.
Elias Rodriguez of Chicago was charged in the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Instagram/@shinewithIsrael)
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Court documents allege Rodriguez approached Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, as they left a Young Diplomats Reception at the museum, fired roughly 20 shots from a semi-automatic handgun and called out “Free Palestine.”
After the shooting, authorities claim, Rodriguez entered the occupied museum, pulled out a red keffiyeh and said, “I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza.”
As police removed Rodriguez from the museum, he allegedly shouted, “Shame on you” and “Shame on Zio-nazi terror” at the remaining event attendees.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter speak to law enforcement officials at the site of the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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Lischinsky and Milgrim died in the attack, and two wounded embassy workers survived.
Darren Cox, FBI assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office, said, in addition to the shooting, Rodriguez allegedly wrote and published a manifesto “attempting to morally justify his actions and inspire others to commit political violence.”
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro added her office will not rest until Rodriguez is held accountable for the “horrific and targeted act of terror.”
People gather to light candles at a makeshift memorial to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Lischinsky was an Israeli citizen and employee of the Government of Israel who was in the U.S. on official business while working for the Israeli Embassy.
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Milgrim, Overland Park, Kansas, was also employed by the Israeli Embassy.
Several of the charges filed against Rodriguez carry a maximum penalty of death and a mandatory life sentence.
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Server CPUs join memory crunch, with prices set to rise • The Register
Datacenter servers will face a double whammy this year as CPU supply constraints pile on top of an already severe memory shortage. Even so, shipments are still expected to grow at a double-digit rate.
The latest Cloud and Datacenter Market Snapshot [PDF] from analyst firm Omdia says that server CPUs are also experiencing supply constraints that are likely to see prices rise, with a knock-on effect on overall system costs.
Omdia claims this is at least partly due to the difficulty of shifting production volume across different process nodes. As CPU roadmaps have broadened, vendors are simultaneously manufacturing processors on different process nodes such as 3 nm or 5 nm.
“The nature of processor design and fabrication is such that shifting volume across process nodes is complex and time consuming,” the firm says, adding that lower-than-expected yields may have also contributed to the shortage.
The upshot is that Omdia believes server CPU prices could increase by 11 to 15 percent as a consequence of the shortfall in supply. And this is a conservative estimate, based on the fact that the biggest customers – the hyperscale cloud operators – will typically have fixed their prices beforehand through long-term agreements with vendors.
Any CPU issues will add to an already challenging IT supply chain situation driven largely by the memory shortage. The cost of DRAM is expected to nearly double this quarter, as The Register reported just days ago, while NAND flash used in solid-state storage is also forecast to rise by more than 30 percent.
DRAM is in particularly short supply because of high demand and because the memory chipmakers have repurposed manufacturing capacity to focus on making more of the high-margin products such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in GPU accelerators for AI processing.
Omdia says that it is concerned that memory availability could disrupt server manufacturing output, which might in turn affect the completion dates for ongoing datacenter projects.
Despite this, the analyst firm still foresees a 12 percent growth in server shipments this year, thanks to a refresh cycle covering general-purpose servers that is also boosting shipments. It regards memory availability as much more of a risk than CPU availability.
Meanwhile, when it comes to racks packed with AI servers and GPUs, Omdia estimates that at least 71,000 racks will ship this year with more than 100 kW of IT load, largely driven by Nvidia’s NVL72 integrated system.
Thanks to the seemingly insatiable demand for AI infrastructure, Omdia forecasts that this will increase by 56 percent next year, and we will see the first ultra-dense racks with upwards of 200 kW of equipment.
But it isn’t likely to end there. Last year, Google detailed plans for future 1 MW IT racks at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in Dublin. ®
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