European supercomputers hacked, apparently to mine cryptocurrency
Leading to lengthy outages
News - Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
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Zoom hit by Sunday morning outage
Zoom stops zooming
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Nvidia launches 5 petaflops DGX A100, and cloud-centric HGX A100
Plus a new EGX for the Edge
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Nvidia announces performance leap with new A100 GPU
Based on a new architecture - Ampere
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Alphabet ends Sidewalk's Toronto smart city project; New York taps Eric Schmidt to 'reimagine' the state
You win some, you lose some
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Astra Capital takes majority stake in Edge company DartPoints
And Scott Willis becomes the new CEO
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Columbia Threadneedle acquires majority stake in Lefdal Mine Datacenter
Potentially Europe's largest data center... but there's still a long way to go
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Microsoft plans $1bn cloud investment in Poland
Starting with a data center region and local partnership
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Compass acquires Toronto land for $100m data center campus
10MW set to be ready this year
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Report: Google engineers toyed with the idea of acquiring Zoom back in 2018
But instead decided to compete with the popular videoconferencing platform
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Nvidia to acquire Cumulus Networks
After Mellanox Technologies acquisition closes
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AWS VP quits company due to Amazon's "chickensh*t" decision to fire protesting workers
Climate and Covid-19 protesting employees fired in apparent whistleblower retaliation
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Former Defense Innovation Board director joins Google
But Google appears not to be working with the DoD - right now
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DigiPlex to build two data centers with $63m bond issue
After several similar bond issuances
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1,390 telecoms sites impacted by Australian wildfires, outages mostly due to power cuts
Ah, the simpler times of early 2020
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IBM gets $18.8m contract modification for ongoing US Army IT modernization award, ITES-2S
Just over a week after a separate $25m win
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AWS quarterly revenue breaks $10bn for the first time
Amazon continues to grow, despite the pandemic
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Sabey Data Centers issues $800 million in securitized notes
Gaining the first A+ rating for data center revenue backed securitized notes
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Microsoft CEO: "We have seen two years' worth of digital transformation in two months"
Covid-19 causes expected Azure surge, some of which might lead to "systemic structural changes"
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Facebook significantly decreases 2020 infrastructure spend, defers $3bn in costs
But it thinks it already has enough data centers to handle Covid-19 usage
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Cummins: Genset demand drops, "with the notable exception" of data centers
Plus company faces factory shutdowns
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Google Cloud revenue jumps 52% to $2.8bn, as ad business takes Covid-19 hit
A diversified giant
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A small number of QTS customers have asked for payment relief
Due to the Covid-19 economic downturn
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AWS launches cloud region in Italy
Opening in Milan despite Covid-19