It was a blockbuster year for the data center industry in 2020, as customers leased a record of nearly 700 megawatts of IT capacity from
Category: Data Center
The Colossal Future Cloud: Land Deals Hint at Even Larger Data Centers
The cloud needs more land. The largest cloud computing players are aggressively acquiring real estate, provisioning large parcels of land for data center campuses. Recent
A Surge of Innovation
Data center operators (and enterprise IT) are generally cautious adopters of new technologies. Only a few (beyond hyperscale operators) try to gain a competitive advantage
Data Center Operators Look to Cooling Strategies for Greater Efficiency
This new special report series . wraps up with a deep dive into different data center cooling strategies, as well as tips on how to navigate balancing power
Soaring Bitcoin Price Boosts Fortunes of Cryptocurrency Mining Firms
The soaring price of bitcoin has boosted the fortunes of the cryptocurrency mining industry, which is seeing record profits amid surging investor interest in digital
Henry Siemon Takes Helm as CEO of The Siemon Company
Global network infrastructure specialist The Siemon Company announced that Henry Siemon is the company’s new President and CEO, effective January 1. He succeeds Carl Siemon,
Echelon Sees Green in Wind-Powered Irish Data Center Project
Many data center operators are now buying renewable energy, but only a handful of projects are actually integrating green power generation into their campuses. Echelon
Data Center Jobs: Many Providers Hiring in Early 2021
We aren’t quite into the second week of January, and the data center industry continues to grow, with open positions are popping up across the
Sustainability: More challenging, more transparent
UI @2021 Through 2021 and beyond, the world will begin to recover from its acute crisis — COVID-19 — and will turn its attention to
Tackling Data Center Water Usage Challenges Amid Historic Droughts, Wildfires
The latest entry in a new special report series highlights how the colocation industry is tackling data center water usage amid a changing natural landscape and historic droughts