Global political unrest and climate change are bringing new attention to the fragility of the undersea cable networks that carry about 95% of international digital traffic.
In this week's top data center news stories, Lonestar takes steps toward a lunar data center, Meta plans mass layoffs, and—surprise!—women are underrepresented in the data center industry.
Training a single AI model can gobble up more electricity than 100 US homes use in an entire year. But with the such fast growth and limited transparency, no one knows exactly how much electricity and emissions can be attributed to the AI sector.
As the world heats up, data centers continue to look for new ways to keep cool and improve efficiency. The Green Grid hopes its updated tggTCO tool will help.
In this week's top data center news stories, Salesforce considers more layoffs, outages plague Dish, Gmail, and Twitter, and Iceland models sustainable energy practices.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are investing in efforts to 'reduce greenhouse gas emissions … and to at least match electricity consumption with renewable energy,' says Omdia's Dr. Moises Levy.
As enterprises attempt to trim their carbon footprint and avoid accusations of greenwashing, the need to adopt a sound carbon accounting framework is vital. But the shift toward accuracy and transparency can prove daunting.