Industry Insights
Microsoft: We're on pace to build 50 to 100 new datacenters each year
Microsoft is expecting to add cloud datacenters in at least 10 more countries this year. It's launching a new virtual datacenter tour to show off how a 'typical' Microsoft datacenter works.
A Temperature-Risk and Energy-Saving Evaluation Model for Supporting Energy-Saving Measures for Data Center Server Rooms
As data centers have become increasingly important in recent years their operational management must attain higher efficiency and reliability. Moreover, the power consumption of a data center is extremely large, and it is anticipated that it will continue to increase, so energy saving has become an urgent issue concerning data centers.
How the ‘standard’ UPS could help accelerate power providers’ renewable power plans
Vertiv’s Andrea Ferro tells DCD how the ‘standard’ UPS will take the starring role in the data center as an energy hub and help utilities better balance the grid
Microsoft plans to user rainwater to cool Dutch environmental data center protests
After papers revealed that new data centers in the Hollands-Kroon province of the Netherlands could cause a shortage of drinking water, Microsoft has promised on TV that it will use rainwater.