Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: Dec. 15, 2017

For your weekend reading, here are the five most popular stories that ran on Data Center Knowledge this week:

IBM Designs a “Performance Beast” for AI - Powered by its latest Power9 chip and new bandwidth highways, the AC922 is IBM’s latest and most powerful hardware for HPC and AI.

Iron Mountain to Buy IO, a Modular Data Center Pioneer, for $1.31B - Deal to add four US data center locations to Iron Mountain’s colocation footprint

Data center modules now manufactured by BaseLayer inside an IO data center. (Photo: IO)

Vapor IO Designs a New Edge Computing Architecture - Vapor Kinetic Edge combines multiple edge locations into a single “logical” data center

A Vapor Edge Module at a cell tower (a rendering)

Civil Works Accident Brings Down Two Manchester Data Centers - UKFast says its facilities went down after contractor drove spike through power main

UKFast's data center campus in Manchester

Facebook to Build Two More Massive Data Centers in Oregon - Announcement comes in the end of an already epic year for Facebook data center expansion

Rendering of the Facebook data center campus in Prineville, Oregon. The two new data centers the company is building here are the white H-shaped complex in the top right corner.