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
Vapor IO Designs a New Edge Computing Architecture - Vapor Kinetic Edge combines multiple edge locations into a single “logical” data center
Civil Works Accident Brings Down Two Manchester Data Centers - UKFast says its facilities went down after contractor drove spike through power main
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