‘More investments in data center infrastructure throughout 2022’
Market researchers from Dell'Oro Group calculate that organizations will invest up to €17.1 billion in data center infrastructure this year, up 25 percent from 2021.
The report shows that organizations spent more on data center infrastructure in the first quarter of 2022. Dell'Oro Group expec... Read more
Intel invests $700 million in liquid cooling technology
Intel plans to invest 700 million dollars in liquid immersion technology for cooling processors in data centerss. Among other things, a large test laboratory is being built for this purpose in the American city of Portland.
The processors used in data centres generate enormous amounts of heat. I... Read more
Google deploys battery farm for Belgian data centre
Google deployed a battery farm for its data centre in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium. The battery farm replaces diesel-powered generators with solar energy.
The tech giant announced the development of this battery farm back in 2020. Recently, the project was tested and deployed. The technology is appl... Read more
NTT gains Macquarie Asset Management as a data center investor
Macquarie and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) are set to enter a strategic real-estate partnership for data processing centers across Europe and the US.
One of the world’s biggest infrastructure asset managers, Macquarie has entered a partnership with NTT – a Japanese telecommunications... Read more
Cloud infrastructure giants boosted data center hardware and software spending
Public cloud infrastructure services like AWS, Google, and Microsoft have boosted the sales of data center hardware and software, increasing the profits of data center manufacturers like Cisco and Dell Technologies.
Over the past year, billions have been invested in launching new kits of data ce... Read more
Meta stops construction of Dutch data center
After months of political friction, Meta announces that it will not be constructing a data center in de Dutch municipality of Zeewolde.
"Given the current circumstances, we have decided to pause our developments in Zeewolde", shared a spokesperson.
Meta and Zeewolde (Dutch municipality) have... Read more
‘Data centers hit by energy prices look to pass costs onto customers’
Dutch data centers risk financial problems due to increasingly high energy prices. Some data centers are looking to break contracts and pass costs to customers. Unfortunately, the latter have little choice.
Since August 2021, the price of data ceter electricity has quadrupled. Russia's invasion ... Read more
UK data centers get a 2.3 billion dollar AWS investement
Amazon to operate and build data centers in the UK.
On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services announced that they're spending around 2.37 billion USD on operating and building data centers in the UK.
The investment will be made over a period of two years. According to AWS, this move will almost doubl... Read more
Lenovo data center division is finally profitable
Lenovo makes a profit in the data center market seven years after acquiring IBM x86 servers.
Lenovo is a Chinese giant when it comes to hardware. In 2014, Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server business and had high hopes in the data center market. These hopes were shattered when their strategy to u... Read more
Dell set record revenue from PC and data center demand
Dell Technologies delivered the best Q3 performance in its history after experiencing a demand surge for personal computers and data centers infrastructure. The company released the report on Tuesday, showing a profit (before certain costs like stock compensation) of $2.015 billion.
That number ... Read more