Steel Mill Transformed Into Juiced Datacenter
A former steel mill outside of Philadelphia that is connected to more than 2 gigawatts of electricity has been converted into a datacenter and is opening up its doors ...Full Article
Wyoming Waste Powers Microsoft Datacenter
As efforts to make datacenters more energy efficient hit a wall, Microsoft is taking a new approach: using methane biogas from an adjacent wastewater treatment facility along with fuel ...Full Article
Business Growth, Storage Drive Datacenter Expansion
Most medium-sized enterprises surveyed in a datacenter demand study said they intend to go with a mix of on-premise, outsourced, co-located, hosted and cloud-based IT operations. The survey also ...Full Article
Lower Electric Bills, Higher Morale At Datacenters
Everybody likes a good deal, but here's a marketing pitch we hadn't heard before: Increasing energy efficiency in datacenters also improves "company morale." That's one of the arguments made ...Full Article
Debate Heats Up Over Datacenter As Energy Hog
A healthy debate is gathering steam over how cloud providers will find new ways to power datacenters that are sure to demand more energy as computing and storage requirements ...Full Article
Datacenter Revamps Cut Energy Costs At CenturyLink
It is probably telling that these days datacenter managers think of the infrastructure under their care more in terms of the juice it burns and not by counting the ...Full Article
Future Datacenters Will Divvy Up Computing, Storage
The datacenter ecosystem of the next decade is likely to resemble an expanded version of the hyperscale facilities currently being built out by today's Internet giants, cloud providers, and ...Full Article
Banks Eye Spare Datacenter Capacity
As more enterprises are opting to colocate their datacenters, a new player is emerging in the datacenter industry: the financial services sector. The financial services sector is becoming "more ...Full Article
Datacenter Construction Expected To Boom
Datacenter construction is forecast to boom over the next four years as demand for datacenter colocation facilities grows and energy regulations prompt upgrades. However, the rise of modular and ...Full Article
Prefab Datacenter Employs Battery-Backed Servers
Yahoo Japan, a joint venture between Yahoo and SoftBank, <span>has installed 200 PRIMERGY RX200 S7 servers with on-board batteries as part of a prefab datacenter approach. </span>Full Article
