It was already one of Facebook’s most ambitious renewable energy data center projects, back when it only had one building. But now that it will need four times the power, will local residents give way?
Changes to the way newer, highly scalable servers consume power made it necessary for the world’s leading colo provider to change the way networks connect to those servers, says Equinix’ chief scientist.
The company said on Wednesday that it expects its capital spending to reach $4.5 billion this year
The first tests of a promising new technology in the U.S. based on Facebook’s open source switches, gets under way with the colocation leader in charge...