And whoever prevails, superconducting bus bars may be waiting in the wings

The hydrogen economy has a much bigger role than providing backup power for data centers. But it has to start somewhere

Whatever the outcome of the BA / CBRE courtroom battle, every enterprise with outsourced IT will be watching with bated breath

ARP creates a control plane where decisions about routing electrical can be taken and enacted, based on a real-time assessment of the actual needs of the data center. Peter Judge talks to Ed Ansett about an invention due to be revealed at DCD>London

Regulations and changing locations means extra care has to be taken when it comes to the air around you

The heat generated by servers is a problem. Unless you can put the servers where heat is required…. 

The airline could win back some trust if it helped to break the secrecy around IT failures
Our latest on the BA outage is here

Data centers are making things better for the rest of us

While politicians do little, the energy industry’s demand side and supply side need to talk. DCD aims to help get the discussion going

IT experts and facilities managers are in separate silos right now, but there won’t be room for both of them in the data center of the future 

For most of us, it’s a distant, and maybe-not-so-serious goal, but there’s one sector where off-grid operation is considered normal 

There are many ways to make liquid cooling more reliable, more affordable, and easier to handle

As grids get hard up, could data centers share their backup generators with the rest of society?

While we’re dreaming up underwater data centers, we also need to tweak our generators

There are more fuel cell vendors than Bloom, and more technologies than solid oxide

Data centers need cooling and power. How will it work if we get both from the same source? 

Energy demand is high, and indoor cannabis farms also need cooling. Do we have the expertise to help?

We hear data centers in the city of Beijing have to have a PUE of 1.5 or less. How will that work? 

Elliptical’s rugged mobile data centers are back from the grave

Usually re-using waste heat is too much like hard work. But maybe that’s changing

Cloud and colocation providers may need a little encouragement to become greener. That’s where enterprise customers come in

New figures show that US data center energy is not growing as fast as was feared

It’s good accounting, not a giant leap for mankind

Dell’s Triton takes on HP’s Apollo in a cooling technology battle from Mount Olympus

Microsoft has said it will go beyond today’s purchase agreements, to actually using more renewable energy. Is this realistic?

ASHRAE believes it can get a worthwhile efficiency standard out this summer, but there are issues to discuss 

Edge networks have a harder time using renewables than centralized facilities

It seems that data centers can get along better without people inside them