When you announce your next project, will it be greeted with praise or protest? A recent controversy surrounding a project in Newark, Delaware offers lessons for data center developers.
Bitcoin mining operations are expected to spend at least $600 million to deploy infrastructure in the second half of 2014 to process transactions using the fast-growing cryptocurrency.
Some data center providers are leasing significant amounts of space and power to Bitcoin specialists, while others remain wary of the density requirements and economics of deals.
Bitcoin miners are building massive "hashing centers" featuring high-density hardware, low-reliability power infrastructure and off-the-shelf enclosures.
As modular data centers become more widely adopted, vendors like Cannon are expanding their offerings to support larger installations with more configuration options.
Google isn't the first company to use artificial intelligence to fine-tune its server infrastructure. Its work is the latest in a series of initiatives to create an electronic "data center brain" that can analyze IT...
Enterprise Hadoop specialist Cloudera will house its data center infrastructure with Vantage Data Centers in Santa Clara, the companies announced today.
