Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom
Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond20 Nov 2024 | 17
Data Centre
LG Electronics aims to become a datacenter cooling player, with aircon and immersion tech
2030 vision also calls for its appliances and televisions to turn you into a subscription cash cow
Cloud Infrastructure Month22 Aug 2024 | 4
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix
Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 35
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bets big on small turbines for datacenters
Another endorsement for the theory that on-prem power generation trumps tapping the grid
Off-Prem29 May 2024 | 41
Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
Exclusive Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses' inability to tell them which offices are open
CxO20 Feb 2024 | 182
Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire
Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right
Off-Prem30 Jan 2024 | 4
NARROWER TOPICS
Singapore wants datacenters, clouds, regulated like critical infrastructure
Even systems located outside city-state could be considered 'foundational' and face performance demands
Off-Prem20 Dec 2023 | 3
Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit
Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel's portfolio
Off-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 3
Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok
Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig
Software02 Aug 2023 |
Singapore's government writes a standard for datacenter ops in the tropics
Turning up the heat can turn down cooling bills, even as 30°C and 84 percent humidity prevail
Off-Prem12 Jun 2023 | 7
UK datacenter biz Ark goes on date with private equity suitors
Government supplier said to be valued at $2.5B
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 1
If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now
On Call It ain’t half hot in the datacenter when an errant aircon engineer leaves the tech team to take the heat
On-Prem17 Feb 2023 | 143
Meta trims datacenter build bills by $4 billion with new 'phased' design
Zuck declares 2023 the 'year of efficiency' - code for breaking leases and firing thousands
Off-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 6
Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week
The irony, it burns
Devops26 Jan 2023 | 12
It’s 2022 and a Korean web giant only now decided to write a DR plan
Kakao discovers the importance of resilience after fire wiped out its services
Off-Prem08 Dec 2022 | 5
NTT Data adopting datacenter inspection robots to relieve humans of some chores
Will also offer them as-a-service to other bit barn operators
On-Prem01 Dec 2022 | 2
Equinix would offer more liquid cooling but struggles without standards
Immersion has different problems: datacenters aren't strong enough to hold lots of liquids
Systems30 Nov 2022 | 6
Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region
Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth
PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 2
Google taps up Softbank solar plants for Dallas datacenter
900MW coming web giant's way ... in 2024
On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |
Kakao CEO quits, South Korea hits emergency button after dire datacenter blaze
Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for
Off-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 5
Twitter datacenter melted down in Labor Day heat
Bitbarn suffered 'total shutdown' after 113F heatwave
On-Prem13 Sep 2022 | 16
Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town
Comment Small-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise
Off-Prem03 Aug 2022 | 6
Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites
Clouds burst as nation hits 40C
Off-Prem19 Jul 2022 | 66
Datacenter boom going bust over labor, materials shortages
Two years on and there's still not enough stuff to go around--or people
Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 9
Nvidia shares tumble as China lockdown, Russia blamed for dent in outlook
Sure, stonking server and gaming sales, but hiring and expenses to slow down, too
AI + ML26 May 2022 | 1
Virginians sue to block rural Amazon datacenter
When it comes to web giant's multi-story facilities in this specific spot, we're haters
On-Prem10 May 2022 | 28
AMD’s Xilinx-enhanced Epycs are right up the alley of datacenter builders
Comment Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency
AI + ML09 May 2022 | 3
Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon
You have died of dystopia
PaaS + IaaS06 May 2022 | 16
Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions?
Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg
Networks06 May 2022 | 5
Google to invest $9.5b in US offices, datacenters
Tough news for those Googlers still holding out for permanent remote work
On-Prem13 Apr 2022 | 5
NTT finds partner to help accelerate datacenter builds in Europe, North America
Asset management outfit Macquarie will buy existing bit barns. But first, check out the shiny new 15.2MW bit barn in Indonesia
Off-Prem04 Apr 2022 |
Intel buys cloud-optimization startup Granulate
Updated Tech will be touted as a SaaS add-on in Xeon sales pitches, live on as standalone product
Software31 Mar 2022 | 1
UK arm of Sungard Availability Services goes into administration
Cloud and data centre provider's liquidity hit by pandemic, energy costs, intransigent landlords
On-Prem30 Mar 2022 | 32
TrendForce: AWS to give Arm a leg up to 22% of datacenter servers by 2025
Cloud giant's Graviton forcing the hand of rivals, according to analysts
PaaS + IaaS29 Mar 2022 | 2
Boom times for North America's big datacenter real estate market
CSPs, social giants behind bulk of colocation leasing activity in 2021
Systems25 Mar 2022 | 4
OVHcloud datacenter 'lacked' automatic fire extinguishers, electrical cutoff
Firefighters' report: Wooden ceiling rated to resist blaze for an hour
On-Prem22 Mar 2022 | 78
Epyc move: Micron shifts high-demand chip design apps to AMD
Memory and storage maker skips over Intel this time
Systems21 Mar 2022 | 3
AMD: Our latest, pricier mega-cache Epyc processors leapfrog Intel’s
Refreshed third-gen 'Milan-X' sports 3D vertical L3 memory
Systems21 Mar 2022 | 24
Equinix cuts $705m check for Chilean, Peruvian datacenters
Colocation giant goes on a Santiago shopping spree
On-Prem18 Mar 2022 | 2
Microsoft datacenter to heat homes in Finland
Turns out the internet is a set of tubes after all
Systems17 Mar 2022 | 36
We have redundancy, we have batteries, what could possibly go wrong?
On Call Practise makes... less than perfect
On-Prem11 Mar 2022 | 180
PsiQuantum envisions a datacenter-sized quantum computer
We're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware
Science08 Mar 2022 | 10
Iran's internet chokepoint caught fire, caused outages
Digital karma at its finest
Networks07 Mar 2022 | 13
Schneider Electric says supply chain held it back
Anticipates 'increased pressure on input costs' on raw materials, labour, and freight
On-Prem23 Feb 2022 | 7
Lenovo's data center business finally makes a profit
Black ink has proven elusive since 2014 acquisition of IBM's x86 server business
On-Prem23 Feb 2022 | 2
China details relocation plan for up to five million datacenter racks
Wants latency-tolerant apps moved to new datacenters in remote western regions, other workloads out of big cities
Off-Prem22 Feb 2022 | 28
This data center will be Europe’s first with hydrogen backup power
And could this be a new Reg standard unit: Number of kilometers a Dutch person drives per day?
On-Prem15 Feb 2022 | 57
Atos realises future does not belong to data centre services
€1.9bn goodwill writedown, another profit warning, going to focus on cloud, digital and security from now on
On-Prem10 Feb 2022 | 2
UK government gifts new £250m hosting contract to its own joint venture
Historical drama as Cabinet Office crowns Crown Hosting Data Centres
On-Prem10 Feb 2022 | 11
Your data centre UPS could feed power to the smart grid, suggests research
Don't all rush to sign up, DC operators
On-Prem09 Feb 2022 | 38
India to adopt digital rupee and slap a 30 per cent tax on cryptocurrency income
Designates data centres as infrastructure to attract more outside investment
Personal Tech02 Feb 2022 | 23
'Admin error': AWS in dead company data centre planning application snafu in Oxfordshire
Northants man surprised to hear former biz address used
On-Prem13 Jan 2022 | 69
Nvidia CFO talks data centre opportunities, chip shortages
Tells investors it has secured supplies to full demand shortfall
On-Prem12 Jan 2022 | 3
Data centre outfit Interxion hit with outage at central London facility
Updated Users complain: We weren't told that LON1 had done one
On-Prem11 Jan 2022 | 19
Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud
Bank migrating thousands of apps and 100k+ workloads to new platform
On-Prem16 Dec 2021 | 29
Sun sets: Oracle to close Scotland's Linlithgow datacentre
Questions for tenants as Ellison's gang executes its OCI strategy
On-Prem06 Dec 2021 | 37
Two massive US datacenter real estate investment trusts taken over in $10B, $15B deals
Coincidentally, the same day President Biden signed the infrastructure bill. I know, REIT?
On-Prem16 Nov 2021 | 2
Wondering what to do with those empty offices? How about a data centre?
Going back to the future with smaller data centres and a Patchwork Kilt
Systems16 Nov 2021 | 30
Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret
Chocolate Factory thirst hidden behind non-disclosure agreement claims
On-Prem05 Nov 2021 | 50
Feeling the pinch? How about a 160% hike in your data centre fees
Energy price rises trigger bigger bills at cloud and network provider M247
Off-Prem04 Nov 2021 | 21
Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment
Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team
Off-Prem12 Oct 2021 | 7
Tight squeeze: Dell shrinks PowerEdge tower server from 117 grapefruit to 74 grapefruit
2 new building-block rack and 3 small footprint towers in DC-optional refresh
Systems08 Oct 2021 | 8
Biting the hand that feeds IT
