Underwater datacenters open up shop before the end of the year
Subsea Cloud is constructing an underwater datacenter near the coast of Washington. Seawater naturally cools servers and reduces water and chemical consumption. Subsea Cloud's first commercial underwater datacenter is expected to open up shop before the end of the year.
The seafloor is enormous... Read more
Cloud provider OVH announces price increases of 10 percent
OVH plans to increase the prices of several cloud services by roughly 10 percent. According to the French cloud provider, the change is necessary due to rising inflation and energy prices.
OVH is one of the largest European cloud providers. The organization provides private cloud, public cloud ... Read more
Electrical explosion near Google data center
An electrical incident has occurred at a Google data center in the United States, with three people injured.
The incident took place at the Council Bluffs Google data center in the state of Iowa. The data center is one of the largest of Google's fourteen US data centers.
According to the San ... Read more
Samsung presents Petabyte Storage SSD for servers
Samsung presented four new storage technologies for big data, including a petabyte-scale SSD dubbed Petabyte Storage.
Samsung presented its next generation of 'Petabyte Storage' technology. The technology should allow single servers to store more than 1PB of data. Data center operators can ther... Read more
Micron’s new SSDs could change data centers forever
Micron's latest NAND modules bring the 'perfect' data center SSD one step closer.
Micron recently announced a new NAND design. NAND is a storage technology for solid state drives (SSD). Micron develops NAND modules in hopes of producing faster and larger SDDs. Ultimately, the SSDs end up in PCs ... Read more
Heat wave takes down Google and Oracle data centers
A heatwave in Europe is causing outages in Google's and Oracle's UK data centers. The cooling systems were unable to cope with the steep rise in temperature, leading to service and network disruptions.
The United Kingdom recorded temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius on the 19th of June. The ... Read more
Google to construct two Dutch data centers despite national ban
Google moves to construct two data centers in Groningen, a Dutch province. The national government refuses to authorize new hyperscalers, which the tech giant hopes to circumvent by cutting back on size.
Between 2014 and 2016, Google built its first data center in Groningen, a northern province... Read more
‘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