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Google VP Majd Bakar speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March 2019 JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images
Google VP Majd Bakar speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March 2019

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: February 26, 2021

Cyxtera in first SPAC deal in the data center space, a look inside hyperscale data center leasing, space storage startup gets funding, and more.

Data Center Provider Cyxtera to Go Public Via $3.4B Starboard SPAC Deal - The SPAC merger opens up new sources of much needed investment capital for the colocation heavyweight.

How Cloud Giants (Hyperscalers) Go About Leasing Data Centers - Data Center Podcast: Stack Infrastructure’s Tim Hughes on the business of hyperscale computing facilities.

Investors Bet $40M On Startup LyteLoop’s Vision of Data Storage in Space - The company plans to launch a network of satellites that would store data by beaming light back and forth between the nodes.

Autopilot: Google Cloud’s Managed Kubernetes With More Management - The cloud provider’s new managed service for the container orchestration engine it created promises customer node management by its own SREs.

The Pros and Cons of Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud - Whether to use Kubernetes as the basis is one of the biggest questions any journey to hybrid cloud begins with today.

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