DCK Investor Edge: Equinix CEO Steve Smith this week fleshed out the company’s strategy for riding the next wave of data center expansion by the dozen largest hyper-scale platforms, which includes building 1MW to 2MW nodes for those clients.
In order to comply with a recently enacted Chinese law, Apple will begin migrating China-based iCloud accounts to its new Chinese data center next month. The facility is operated by Guizhou-Cloud BIg Data, which is supervised by Guizhou State...
Cryptocurrency mining could require up to 140 terawatt-hours in 2018, about 0.6 percent of the global total, according to Morgan Stanley analysts. That’s more than expected power demand from electric vehicles in 2025.
The two countries are competing to be the site of a new AWS data center in South America, sources told Bloomberg. Amazon is still deciding how to proceed and could ultimately end up with sites in both locations
The key investor and landlord in the US data center industry is expanding north of the border, pitching the 11MW site for “scale and hyper-scale deployments.” Ericsson will lease a portion of the facility.
The administration says two new Dell systems being added to existing IBM and Cray clusters in Virginia and Florida data centers will boost its compute power by one third and storage by 60 percent, extending its visibility into future weather from...
The relatively small Reston site gives East Coast presence to the predominantly West Coast data center provider that’s been expanding via acquisition since last year. Evocative plans more acquisitions and a national IP backbone.
The greatest noticeable impact will be on servers in corporate on-prem. data centers, Microsoft said, where even small deficits in performance can be magnified because those machines handle a large volume of actions that require talking to the...
