Medieval alchemists never managed the transformations that today’s technologists have achieved

The UK government tried to offer tax incentives for buying efficient UPS systems. The effort was doomed from the start

ASHRAE has said data centers don’t need humidification. Fancy a wager on when its recommendations will be adopted?

Google joining Open Compute is more exciting than Spiderman’s appearance in a Captain America movie trailer

Ghosts, kittens and motor bikes - they all make a dangerous mix when combined with raised access floors!

Google is sharing its 48VDC power distribution with the Open Compute Project. This will be of limited use in European data centers 

A data center powered exclusively by the sun is not ufeasible, but it is highly impractical

In response to the news that ASHRAE has abandoned plans to specify efficiency levels for data centres

If energy costs are falling, data centers will boom 

Ever been told to slow down and take a deep breath? Now it’s the data centers that will be hearing that advice

Slicing a data center up into domestic heating systems may be an extreme idea, but it just got backed by a conventional data center firm

So what if data center power demands are growing fast. Does the industry need to worry?

While some sites clear up the aftermath of a deluge, others should get their cleaning in order

How well did the industry do in predicting 2015?

Power gluttons should cut down their wasteful energy demands

Google got it right, and the UK got it very wrong in Paris

To prevent outages, make capacity management a company-wide mission

Nuclear energy is low-carbon. Should the industry be supporting it on the same terms as renewables?

The rise of edge data centers means Interxion Paris won’t be the last data center to annoy its neighbors

It shouldn’t take a death to remind us that health and safety rules are not optional. 

Here are some simple steps to tackle safety issues in your facility

Small and medium sized data centers can calculate PUE without metering beyond the UPS

California learnt to allow refrigerants

Solar storms are real, but preparing for them is not a simple matter