A look at the data center’s impact on society

The power required by AI models is expanding uncontrollably - and that is before the models get fully deployed

As the climate warms, and facilities attempt to minimize cooling for efficiency reasons, we could see a trend for cooling systems failures

Why we need to rethink our approach

Power purchase agreements normally only cover 50 to 70 percent of emissions. It's time tech giants paid the true price of 24x7 PPAs

As businesses, we affect the environment in ways often not clearly visible

As a new surge of building begins, it’s more important than ever that data centers move to renewable energy sources

Data centers are making things better for the rest of us

Google data centers are sending less to landfill. Why not send the whole facility there?

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

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

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