Andrew Fanara joins DEEP as head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, bringing a world of data center sustainability knowledge from his time at ENERGY STAR.
Both companies cited problems with “cooling systems” for causing the outages. Temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the UK on Tuesday.
Small data centers in dense urban areas running close to full capacity are most likely to need emergency hosing during a hot spell. Hyperscale data centers run by technology giants often use vast amounts of water.
The move to the cloud is not necessarily a carbon-free transition, which means businesses need to be folding cloud-based emissions into their overall ESG strategy.
DeepMind has let its AI system manage the temperature controls inside Google data centers, shaving huge chunks off the company’s electricity bill. Phaidra is hoping to bring that technology to power plants and other industrial giants.
An inactive mine deep underground provided the ideal environment for Bluebird Underground, a state-of-the-art data center. Read how the team made it work and what advice they have for data center managers looking to improve sustainability.
ITOps teams can become more environmentally friendly by reducing their technical debt. One way to do that is to run apps inside containers instead of VMs.