Tackling Data Center Water Usage Challenges Amid Historic Droughts, Wildfires
The latest entry in a new special report series highlights how the colocation industry is tackling data center water usage amid a changing natural landscape and historic droughts and wildfires in...
View ArticleData Center Jobs: Many Providers Hiring in Early 2021
We aren’t quite into the second week of January, and the data center industry continues to grow, with open positions are popping up across the country as many firms look to meet growing demand. This...
View ArticleEchelon Sees Green in Wind-Powered Irish Data Center Project
Many data center operators are now buying renewable energy, but only a handful of projects are actually integrating green power generation into their campuses. Echelon Data Centres is bringing this...
View ArticleHenry Siemon Takes Helm as CEO of The Siemon Company
Global network infrastructure specialist The Siemon Company announced that Henry Siemon is the company’s new President and CEO, effective January 1. He succeeds Carl Siemon, who had served as President...
View ArticleSoaring Bitcoin Price Boosts Fortunes of Cryptocurrency Mining Firms
The soaring price of bitcoin has boosted the fortunes of the cryptocurrency mining industry, which is seeing record profits amid surging investor interest in digital assets. The infrastructure to...
View ArticleStrategies for Cloud Service Providers Adapting to Challenging, Demanding...
It may seem as if with each year, client demands for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are growing at a rapid pace. And a new eBook from the Siemon Company reiterates...
View ArticleData Center Operators Look to Cooling Strategies for Greater Efficiency
This new special report series . wraps up with a deep dive into different data center cooling strategies, as well as tips on how to navigate balancing power efficiency and water usage — a process that...
View ArticleThe Colossal Future Cloud: Land Deals Hint at Even Larger Data Centers
The cloud needs more land. The largest cloud computing players are aggressively acquiring real estate, provisioning large parcels of land for data center campuses. Recent transactions suggest that some...
View ArticleData Center Leasing Approached 700 Megawatts in 2020
It was a blockbuster year for the data center industry in 2020, as customers leased a record of nearly 700 megawatts of IT capacity from multi-tenant service providers, according to a new report. That...
View ArticleThe Sustainability Imperative: Green Data Centers and Our Cloudy Future
The urgent need for climate action is writ large in the headlines of 2020. Devastating wildfires have ravaged California, Oregon and Colorado, while a historic series of powerful hurricanes slammed the...
View ArticleDataverse Growth Requires Sustainable Data Solutions
Damien Gaynor, Chief Marketing Officer from Echelon Data Centres, explores the dataverse and how its growth requires sustainable data solutions. Damien Gaynor, Chief Marketing Officer, Echelon Data...
View ArticleAmerican Real Estate Acquires Site in Ashburn’s Data Center Alley
American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has teamed with investor Harrison Street to acquire a piece of prime real estate in “Data Center Alley” in Ashburn, Virginia where it plans to build a 265,000...
View ArticleEOL & EOSL and Long-Term Hardware Infrastructure Strategy
With close to 25 years of data center and IT expertise, Chad Peters of Service Express shares insights regarding the equipment life cycle and how IT leaders can better prepare their budget, strategy...
View ArticleThe Power of the Negawatt: Efficiency Improves Data Centers’ Energy Impact
Last week, we launched a special report series on data centers and sustainability by taking a look at the role of green data centers in a future hazy with the inevitable impacts of climate change....
View ArticleAgriculture and Data Centers — a Match Made for the Future
A new white paper from QTS explores the need for robust, low-latency connectivity to directly support the future of farming. And in broaching this topic, the report also explores agriculture and data...
View ArticleDigital Crossroad Data Center Lands Content Delivery Client
The Digital Crossroad wholesale data center says it has signed a leading content delivery network (CDN) as a client for its DX-1 data center in Hammond, Indiana. It’s the first publicly-announced...
View ArticlePodcast: Enterprise IT Adapts to a Pandemic-Altered Landscape
What’s ahead for the data center industry in 2021? Our topic today is how enterprise IT will adapt to the changed landscape created by the COVID19 pandemic, and why this will matter to data center...
View ArticleDominion Energy Plans More Green Power for Virginia’s Data Centers
Dominion Energy is developing more renewable energy for its power grid, a welcome development for tech companies seeking more green power for their data centers in Northern Virginia. The utility’s...
View ArticleJohn Sasser Named CTO at Sabey Data Centers
Sabey Data Centers has appointed John Sasser to be its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a new job title created by the Seattle-based firm. Sasser will be responsible for data center operations, new data...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Data Center Stories of January 2021
Our Data Center Frontier 2021 forecast was popular with our readers in January, but there was also strong interest in data on the record cloud leasing in 2020, land deals in the Virginia market, and a...
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