As Thursday dawned on lower Manhattan, the city’s battered data centers continued their recovery efforts. Wednesday was a day of fast-moving events, as some facilities that were down came back online, and some that were up went down. Several of…
As Thursday dawned on lower Manhattan, the city’s battered data centers continued their recovery efforts. Wednesday was a day of fast-moving events, as some facilities that were down came back online, and some that were up went down. Several of…
“Why build off-site via factory construction?” “How will customizing my modular data center and building it in a factory benefit me?” These questions are becoming more and more frequently asked in the modular data center industry. Yet, there is no one answer…
The modern data center is evolving to become a technological hub hosting new types of virtualization and cloud technologies. There are numerous benefits to working with both virtualization and cloud computing – but this has also introduced new levels of…
Google invested $872 million in its Internet infrastructure in the third quarter of 2012, up from $774 million the previous quarter, the company said in its earnings announcement. Over the last four quarters, Google has invested nearly $3.2 billion in…
A minimum of 10 percent of the power provided to the facility will be wind energy from the nearby Happy Jack Wind Farm. NCAR and UCAR say they will continue to explore options to increase the percentage of renewable energy…
IT organizations are desperate to make their current data centers more flexible and higher performing before resigning themselves to building out new facilities. The capacity (power, space, compute and network) and utilization/load profiles allocated for a facility when it was…
Here’s one thing you can say about the New York Times’ series on data centers and energy: it has the industry talking like never before about its successes and its shortcomings. Here’s a roundup of some of the notable commentary…
3M has developed a data center cooling concept called “open bath immersion cooling,” which it says is simpler and less expensive to implement than other pumped liquid cooling techniques. The system is an example of passive two-phase cooling, which uses…
A year after announcing its plans to construct a €75m data centre in Dublin, Google has opened the new centre at Profile Park in Clondalkin, creating 30 roles and bringing the company’s headcount to over 2,500 in Ireland. The new…
Internet giant Google is to open its new data centre in Clondalkin, west Dublin, today, that will help run Google’s online services, such as the Google search engine, Gmail and Google Maps. A year ago, Google announced an investment in…
