New chips and new vision as it drastically pivots to generative AI

Hyperscalers want to end the leap second, as things start to turn negative

Finding out who owns the biggest data center on the planet is harder than you might think

The tides of subsea cable trends are changing rapidly amid new investments and development

Re-using waste heat from servers is not a new idea, but it remains mired in challenges

With Northern Virginia bursting at the seams, new submarine fiber could create new hubs in the south of the Commonwealth

If we can lower the cost to deploy fiber, we could connect the planet

You might expect the physical design of data center hardware to be pretty standard by now. Don’t be so sure…

Users who shuffle between cloud and their own servers may end up over-paying, and some Edge use cases have been over-sold, seven industry leaders told DCD's San Francisco event

All around the world, data center builders are finding they have to build upwards, creating new opportunities and challenges

It might help discover new levels of efficiency, but the trade-off is a massive increase in demand for bandwidth

Facebook explains how it has one data center operator per 25,000 servers

“China’s ecosystem and economy depends on our technology… the United States depends on China”

Eying lucrative gains as IT is modernized, data centers are consolidated, and taxes shrunk

They looked solid and unchanging, but now servers are being remolded by the creative minds of the industry

Facebook organized an OCP Technology Day, and Menno Kortekaas was there to make detailed notes

As the human race constructs the greatest project the world has ever seen, the architects behind it consider its human impact. 

Google, Facebook and the other giants update their cooling practice every six months. What can you learn from them?

Does it really matter where the next big data center is constructed?

Data centers are meeting their green energy goals and paying to have new renewable energy supplies delivered into the grid - through RECs and PPAs

Network vendors follow Facebook, making open switches for the data center

Research says IT equipment can run warmer, but data centers aren’t raising temperature to save money