The data center building boom has created backlogs for the large generators that provide emergency power, with some facility operators reporting delays of up to a year on the most popular models
The power and cooling crisis has escaped the data center and is fast emerging as a front-of-mind challenge for C-level executives at technology companies.
Google is calling on the computer industry to create a simpler and more efficient power supply standard that it says will save billions of kilowatt-hours of energy annually.