Whether or not the big layoffs were necessary, they were astonishingly badly handled

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

How hyperscalers are arming up with their own infrastructure

Policymakers think submarine fibers will bring business to Asia. Instead, they will shift compute workloads away

If data is the new oil, AI could be the new snake oil.

CBRE and Google explore how automation can replace humans in the data center, and whether data centers really are the information age factories

As many of us continue to work remotely, outages have become more frequent and more acute

Buying another company works if it complements what you already have, and how well you integrate the technology, and business model

With Google moving the privacy protections of its UK users to its US entity, here are the privacy regulations behind the story and what businesses need to know

The data center landscape is changing

How come the data centers that enable such data dependency are better known in private than in public?

What we saw when Google went down, and how you should think about resiliency and visibility as you move into the cloud

Amazon's HQ2 circus opened people's eyes to the shadowy world of tax breaks for tech giants

Hoping to mitigate the costs of incorrect or delayed compliance, many firms are implementing a risky “wait-and-see" approach

Why Google chose Belgium to build its largest European data center

There’s no reason to pay list price when so many cost-savings measures are available

AI offers opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption by using existing data and real-time monitoring

A thought experiment on the data centers of tomorrow

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

With its ability to optimize and plan, AI could help data centers to become more efficient

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?

Local providers aren’t dead - they need to adopt the franchise model offered by Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services

For those data centers with low levels of connectivity and diversity of carriers, the future is not that bright

 Some states are keen to get data centers in their borders, others are trying to cut back….