Why Sustainability Matters in Data Center Site Selection
PUE is no longer the only metric customers, local governments, and other stakeholders care about when it comes to data center site selection. This launches our article series on the…
Florida Data Centers Brace for Powerful Hurricane Ian
As Hurricane Ian approaches landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm, data centers across Florida are taking steps to prepare their facilities and staff for several days of disruption as…
Equinix Launches Foundation to Fund Digital Inclusion
Digital infrastructure company Equinix is creating a global foundation to fund initiatives that advance digital inclusion in the markets where it operates, backed by a $50 million initial commitment. The…
Data Centers, Computer Servers and Safety Problems with Power Issues and Solutions
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, William Hinton, Director of Engineering for Applied Energy, outlines some of the dangers and causes of arc flash events and explains how…
Rakuten Symphony gets intimate with AWS
Japanese Open RAN platform provider Rakuten Symphony is making itself available on Amazon Web Services. Rakuten Symphony likes to name all its products with ‘Sym’ as the first syllable. Accordingly…
European cloud players face declining market share as US hyperscalers clean up
A report states that while EU cloud providers are growing revenues, their share of the market is declining as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now account for 72% of the regional…
Alternative clouds are vulnerable to demanding buyers
Although big-name hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft dominate the cloud arena, other companies also believe they have a role to play. Vultr, OVHcloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Bluehost and Scaleway,…
Large Deals Drive Strong Data Center Growth in Phoenix in 2022
Phoenix saw 280 megawatts of data center capacity absorbed in the first six months of 2022, according to data from JLL, making it the strongest leasing market in North America…
Quantum Loophole Unveils Deals for 4 Customers, 240 Megawatts of Power
Data Center developer Quantum Loophole says it has lined up deals for a whopping 240 megawatts of capacity at its new hyperscale campus in Frederick County, Maryland. The company is…