Aligned Lines Up $495 Million for Data Center Expansion
Aligned Energy has lined up a $495 million secured credit facility with investors led by Goldman Sachs, the company said today. The loan will enable Aligned Energy to continue its growth trajectory,...
View ArticleRenewable Rooftops: Iron Mountain Plans Massive NJ Solar Array
Iron Mountain is building a 7.2-megawatt solar energy array on the roof of its massive data center building in Edison, New Jersey, the company said this week. The project will be the largest rooftop...
View Article10 KPIs You Need to Monitor to Improve Data Center Health and Efficiency
Herman Chan, President of Sunbird Software, offers readers 10 KPIs to track if your goal is improving data center health and efficiency. Herman Chan, President of Sunbird Software Modern data center...
View ArticleOn-site Data Center Challenges Explored in New QTS Report
Should you still be in the data-center business? That’s the first question asked in a new report from QTS that explores the challenges of on-site data centers, and some of the key questions facing...
View ArticleBrexit Prep Has Boosted Data Centers, Subsea Cables. But What Now?
With an Oct. 31 deadline looming, uncertainty surrounds the outcome of the UK Brexit plan. Data center companies in London and other UK markets are doing contingency planning for a potential “no deal”...
View ArticleAre You Ready? International Data Center Day is Tuesday
Tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 29) is the first International Data Center Day! It’s an effort to raise awareness of the data center industry and to inspire the next generation of talent. The initiative,...
View ArticleData Center Management Tools: The Key to Supporting Our Data-Driven World
Jeff Klaus, General Manager of Intel Data Center Management Solutions, explores how data center management tools and industry innovation can go hand-in-hand. Jeff Klaus, General Manager of Intel Data...
View ArticleDCF Podcast: The Self-Driving Future is Paved with Data
The Data Center Frontier Show podcast tells the story of the data center industry and its future. Our podcast is hosted by Rich Miller, editor of Data Center Frontier, who is your guide to the ongoing...
View ArticleIn Ireland, Data Centers Team Up to Save the Bees
Can data centers helps save the bees? The members of Host In Ireland have teamed with the Irish National Biodiversity Centre in a long-term initiative to help save Irish bees. On Friday more than 100...
View ArticleTaking Earthquake Protection to the Next Level in Data Centers
SAN FRANCISCO – Should data center operators create more facilities with advanced earthquake protection? If they do, will customers pay a little more to improve earthquake defenses for their IT...
View ArticleDigital Realty Will Acquire Interxion in $8.4 Billion MegaDeal
In a step to further strengthen its market position in Europe, Digital Realty has agreed to acquire Interxion in an all-stock deal with an estimated value of $8.4 billion. Digital Realty, the largest...
View ArticleThe Hyperscale Data Center Drives the Global Cloud Revolution
Data is the foundation of the new economy. Almost no one is using less data today than they did yesterday, and we will all probably consume even more data tomorrow. This growing tsunami of data has to...
View ArticlePrecision Farming: AI and Automation Are Transforming Agriculture
Technology is transforming our food chain, with some of the most important innovation occurring in the rise of precision farming. Together, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are revamping the...
View ArticleData Center Day Kicks Off Focus on Students, Future Workforce
The organizers of International Data Center Day hailed the event as an important first step in raising the profile of the data center industry and building a workforce for the future. The 7×24 Exchange...
View ArticleFrontier Spotlight: The Top 10 Data Center Stories for October 2019
Big moves from Digital Realty and Cologix, a guide to data center fall conference season, and an update on the Northern Virginia data center market. These are all topics of some of the most popular...
View ArticleDCF Podcast: Data Center Merger Mania: Updates on Digital Realty, CyrusOne
The Data Center Frontier Show podcast tells the story of the data center industry and its future. Our podcast is hosted by Rich Miller, editor of Data Center Frontier, who is your guide to the ongoing...
View ArticleQTS Expands Atlanta Campus to Support 12 MW Hyperscale Deal
QTS Realty has signed a 12-megawatt lease with a hyperscale customer, which will become the anchor tenant in a new data center building on the company’s Metro Atlanta campus. The deal is a notable win...
View ArticleIs A Data Center Disaster Inevitable? Lessons from the Nuclear Industry
PHOENIX – The data center industry needs to rethink its approach to risk, or it faces the potential of a headline-making outage that could bring regulation, according to a leading reliability expert....
View ArticleScott Noteboom Joins Liquid Cooling Startup Submer
Scott Noteboom envisions a future filled with autonomous data centers, which could look very different from the data halls you see today. “It’s time for version 2 of the data center, which is an...
View ArticleBest Practices for Data Center Resilience
Stream Data Centers Engineering Director Kevin Rosen explores ways to ensure data center resilience. Kevin Rosen, Director of Critical Engineering, Stream Data Centers The Challenge of Data Center...
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