AWS buys data center running on nuclear power: smart sustainability?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its data center capacity by inking an acquisition. Notable is that the acquired data center runs on nuclear energy. This form of energy is interesting for data centers and the sustainability of this industry for several reasons.
AWS purchased a data center... Read more
The Icemen And The Data Centers
Iceland has tried before to promote its potential as a site for data centers, and the work data centers do, without a huge amount of success: as a colleague remarked recently `if it is such a good site for data centers why haven’t the big hyperscalers already set up there?’ It is a reasonable q... Read more
OVH shares overview of data lost in fire
OVHcloud has shared a list of what data was lost in the fire that raged in the hosting company's data centre last week. Many of the lost data have been backed up, but some of it is gone forever.
The overview of the possibly affected data is broken down into the different service branches of OVH:... Read more