Many analysts have forecast an explosion in demand for edge data centers. After a long, slow start, demand is beginning to build, with small, prefabricated
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Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?
The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by
New ASHRAE guidelines challenge efficiency drive
Earlier in 2021, ASHRAE’s Technical Committee 9.9 published an update — the fifth edition — of its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. The update recommends important changes
Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage
The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat. By any standards, the outage
Vertiv’s DCIM ambitions wither on Trellis’ demise
Operators often say that data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is a necessary evil. Modern facilities need centralized, real-time management and analytics, but DCIM is
Startups brew new chemistries for fresh battery types
Through their public commitments to net-zero carbon emission targets, cloud providers have re-energized talks of a major redesign of critical power systems within the data
Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand
Edge data centers are generally small data center facilities — designed for IT workloads up to a few hundred kilowatts — that process data closer to
Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk
A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down thousands of websites in different countries, including big names, such as Amazon, Twitter and Spotify,
Data center insecurity: Online exposure threatens critical systems
In early March 2021, a hacker group publicly exposed the username and password of an administrative account of a security camera vendor. The credentials enabled
Datacenter Fire Frequency
The catastrophic fire that occurred at OVHcloud’s SBG2 data center in Strasbourg, France (see last week’s blog about it) has led many operators to question their