Data Center News

New University at Buffalo School of Management research devises data center energy conservation strategy

Buffalo

The University at Buffalo School of Management (UB) has announced that recent research has discovered a strategy to conserve data center energy consumption and optimize processing performance. It found that data center managers can reduce energy consumption 10-30%. This can be done, the resear...

SolarWinds expands footprint in Australia

United States

SolarWinds has announced that it has launched its Australian IT service management (ITSM) data center, to enhance performance and speed and assist customers, and demonstrate compliance with data sovereignty requirements. The launch is part of an ongoing investment in the region.Speaking about ...

LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

Finland

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. Th...

Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has announced plans to expand in India, with a new data center campus in Navi Mumbai. The campus is pegged to include ten buildings, with a total of 40 data halls, and 40,000 sqm of data center white space spanning a 62,000 sqm site.Further, the company outlined that the campus will have...

Exascale Tape Library Installed by Spectra Logic at SLAC National Accelerator Library

Spectra Logic has installed a new 18-frame exascale Tape Library at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, USA. The 18-frame Spectra TFinity Tape Library is the foundation for the data storage system known as The Tape Library, which stores LTO-9 tape drives and media. Spectra ...

2022 Saw Box Inc. Spend $15m More on Cloud & $5m Less on Data Centers

United States

Box's financial report for 2022, which details the company's plans to transfer operations to public cloud infrastructure, was just published. The report indicates that in 2022, the corporation increased its spending on public cloud infrastructure by $15.2 million while decreasing its expenditu...

Robotic Dogs Are Being Tested For Facility Assessments by Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers

Robotic dogs are being tested by Brazilian data center operator Scala for fire safety assessments. While Scala doesn't specify the brand or manufacturer, the robot appears to be a Go1 from the Chinese company Unitree. The Go1 is a little smaller than some other robot dogs, at around 30 cm t...

Network Spin Off by Italy's Wind Tre

Italy

According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that  the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a...

Spectra7 and Zhaolong Design 112G PAM4 for North American and Chinese Data Center Industries

Zhaolong Interconnect Technology Co., a well-known cable supplier in China, will offer Active Copper Cable (ACC) parts and components with 112G PAM4 signaling to Hyperscalers and OEM/ODMs in both North America and China. These configurations will include Spectra7's GC1122 GaugeChangerTM chips,...

OneWeb and Amazon Explore Cloud-based Connection Collaboration

Amazon AWS

OneWeb, a provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a letter of intent to discuss cloud-based connection options. The two organizations want to collaborate on a totally integrated satellite constellation management service. They wa...

Oxford Quantum Circuits Will Install Quantum Computer at Equinix Japan Data Facility

Equinix Tokyo TY11

A quantum computer is being installed at an Equinix data center in Tokyo, Japan, by the UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC). This week, the company said that starting in late 2023, it will provide "Quantum Computing as a Service" through a system on Equinix's TY11 Tokyo International Bus...

Scala Data Centers' Senior Director of Data Center Deployment is Revealed

Scala Data Centers

Mark Sanchez has been appointed as Scala Data Centers' new Senior Director of Data Center Deployment. Scala Data Centers is the top Latin American platform for environmentally friendly data centers in the hyperscale market. After five years managing teams and implementing data centers on five ...

BladeRoom Data Centers Hyperscale Solution, BRG Technologies Achieved TIA 942 Accreditation

Capitoline Ltd, a UK-based independent engineering consultancy and one of the few TIA-licensed Certification Bodies worldwide, has given BladeRoom Data Centres' Hyperscale System data center design a good standing, confirming that the design meets the Rating 3 requirements of TIA942. The TIA94...

Meta Will Terminate 10,000 More Workers

Meta

After letting go of around 11,000 workers in the latter part of last year, Meta aims to let go of about 10,000 individuals. As part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 'Year of Efficiency' appeal to investors to improve a falling share price, the corporation will also eliminate 5,000 unfilled position...

Another sustainability-linked loan secured by AirTrunk

AirTrunk

AirTrunk has announced that it has secured a new AU$ 650 million (US$432.5m) Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) in Japan. This latest addition, it has outlined, means that all debt platforms are now linked to sustainability targets; a total of AU$ 5 billion (US$3.3bn) in Environmental, Social, ...

Italy's Bergamo Will Soon Have a Campus For Data Centers

Italy

A new data center is being planned by the local real estate company Vitali outside of Bergamo, Italy. The Municipality of Arcene in northern Italy is reportedly in talks with Vitali s.p.a. to create a new data center campus, according to the local Italian press.The commune of Arcene is located...

Michigan DXC Data Center is Sold And Will Become a Manufacturing Facility

DXC Technology

A defunct HP/DXC data center in Michigan was sold and will be turned into an industrial space. According to RE Journal, manufacturing company Engineering Design Services purchased a 75,200-square-foot facility at 885 W Entrance Drive in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with the help of US real estate f...

Africa Data Centres signs 20-year PPA for solar

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced the signing of a new 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Distributed Power Africa (DPA) to procure solar energy for its South African operations.Through the deal, the company will be supplied via wheeling, which occurs by delivering renewable en...

Adani to develop 15 GW of renewable energy projects and 400 MW of data center projects

India / Bhārata

Adani Group has announced plans to develop 15 GW of renewable power projects over the next few years in Andhra Pradesh, in Anantapur, Kadapa, Kurnool, Visakhapatnam, and Vizianagaram. This announcement came at a recent investors summit, ‘Global Investors Summit 2023’ held in the state. Accordi...

Orange announces solar panel deployment in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso

Orange

In further efforts to decarbonize, Orange has announced that it is deploying solar panels at its Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso data centers. Reports are that the deployments will average at 1MWp.These solar panels will be deployed by SolarX, part of investment firm Omnium Invest, and will repor...