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

When the rise of edge networking brings data centers into close contact with people, we’ll need a charm offensive

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

Let’s start 2016 by acknowledging that, however efficient we make them, data centers are expanding uncontrollably

Data centers will become migrants this year, and we will start to define them differently

The Climate Summit is over. Now what needs to be done?

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

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

California learnt to allow refrigerants

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

ASHRAE’s new data center building standard includes recommended PUE levels

IBM and Rittal aren’t the first prospecters into Norway’s giant Lefdal mine

Why change the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric? 

The Navajo Nation is building a supercomputer that takes a simple approach to liquid cooling

Uptime Institute admits problems with multi-level certification, and its critics have a field day

Data centers are being built in the strangest places - from churches, to spaghetti factories, to military zones

If electric cars take off, their batteries could solve the problem of intermittent renewable energy supplies

Finally, Amazon responds to Greenpeace: the cloud saves carbon, no matter how you power it

Cloud providers are asking for green tariffs. Electricity firms are not playing ball

The way Facebook stores your old photos is pretty exciting. When other markets pick up the idea, it will be even better 

As the United Kingdom goes to the polls, we hear news of energy efficient sites in England, Scotland, Wales - and Ireland too

Bloom Energy has large customers, but information (and installations) are a trickle not a flood

ASHRAE wants us to expand our humidity range. We’ll need to check what this will do to our liquidity