DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cooling, Google
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Google unveils new open-source liquid-to-air cooling sidecar for air-cooled environments
Dubbed Brazos, the new system furthers OCP development of sidecar designs
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Google commits to replenish more water than it consumes at its data center sites by 2030
Announces $17m in investment into water sustainability efforts across seven US states
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Companies show off Google-inspired Project Deschutes CDUs
Likes of Boyd, Vertiv, Stulz, and others use Google-made spec given to OCP
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AI data center growth deepens water security concerns in high-stress states - report
Two-thirds of new data centers since 2022 are in locations with high levels of water stress
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Hyperscalers prepare for 1MW racks at OCP EMEA; Google announces new CDU
Hyperscalers look to disaggregate power from IT to reach 1MW racks
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Former Google data center liquid cooling lead and Tesla thermal engineer joins OpenAI
Reza Khiabani has years of experience cooling AI infrastructure
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Chile partially reverses Google data center permit over water use concerns
As Chilean drought continues, court asks for company to consider climate change
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Sabey president says hyperscalers are blocking colo efficiency improvements - Report
Big cloud players run their own data centers warmer, but insist on over-cooling by wholesale providers, says Sabey's Rob Rockwood
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Google’s London data center outage during heatwave caused by “simultaneous failure of multiple, redundant cooling systems”
Search giant investigating what went wrong, will be auditing all cooling systems globally
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Cooling failure brings down Google Cloud data center in London on UK's hottest day
Services are up again now, Oracle also affected
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DCD Magazine out now - Life as a hyperscale data center contractor
As the workforce challenge intensifies, hear directly from contractors about what it's really like.
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Google claims it will replenish 120 percent of the water it uses by 2030
Although some will come in the form of offsets
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Huge data center moves forward in Mesa despite Arizona water concerns
"Data centers are not a responsible use of our water," Vice Mayor says
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Crushed wheels caused Google rack to overheat
Less machine learning, more machine leaning
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South Carolina green lights Google's 549m gallon water cooling plans
If Google strays but a little the license can be pulled
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After aquifer concerns, Google's $600m South Carolina expansion finds new water supply
An agreement for five million gallons of water to be pumped every day could help provide Google's Goose Creek data center with server cooling
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Data centers will increase Denmark's carbon footprint
Leaked government report says Facebook, Apple and friends will raise the country’s emissions by ten percent
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Hyperscalers drive renewable energy generation, says study
Despite some ongoing reliance on fossil fuels
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Google parent Alphabet experiments with grid energy storage
X’s Malta project hopes to fix renewable energy’s biggest problem
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Google signs 10 year PPA with Netherlands’ largest solar farm
Planning to use the electricity to power new €600m data center
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Google to receive power from Norway's largest wind farm in September
The company signed a PPA with Tellenes Wind Farm last year
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Tech industry responds to Trump leaving Paris Agreement
Tech vs Trump rift heats up, as does our planet
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Google's plan to use aquifer for cooling in South Carolina raises concerns
Renewably powered, but not renewably cooled
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DCD Zettastructure: data centers lead on energy use - Google
Data centers have grown massively without a corresponding growth in energy use, says Francois Sterin of Google
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Flexenclosure sells 28 eSite modules to Mozambique's Kambeny
Mozambique goes online
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White Space 50: Anniversary edition
We talk international politics, artificial intelligence and the confusion surrounding the future of Emerson Network Power
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Google and Facebook unleash the Open Rack Standard
The architecture uses 48V, is being open sourced through the Open Compute Project
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Google uses DeepMind AI to cut data center PUE by 15%
Google’s brain uses its smarts to save energy