A big gamble in Vegas?
The Hot Aisle reader, Mark Hatton of Trapdoor dropped me a mail a few days ago about a company based in Las Vegas called Switch Communications and the CEO, Rob Roy was making a lot of claims about how...
View ArticleFujitsu slip off whilst trying to jump on the green bandwagon
When was the last time you saw a Data Center press release that didn’t make some green or energy efficiency claim? I guess because data centers are such huge energy hogs vendors must worry that...
View ArticleA Green Data Center Approach and Design
I wrote about Elean Park Data Center some time ago on The Hot Aisle where we looked at the use of absorption chillers that use the waste heat from a biomass power station and gas generation plant on...
View ArticleData Center in a Tent?
I read a very interesting article from fellow blogger Christian Belady, who is Principal Power and Cooling Architect at Microsoft. Christian decided to take the PUE challenge and see if he could build...
View ArticleMassive New Data Center investment in Wales
An ambitious project is under way in Newport Gwent, to build one of the most advanced and secure data centres in Europe. Next Generation Data (NGD) is investing £200 million ($346 million) to modify a...
View ArticleIs it a Data Center or Santa’s Grotto?
The Pionen White Mountains underground data center has fog, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and …. …… was also designed to withstand a near hit from a Soviet nuclear weapon....
View ArticleInterxion Opens Fifth Amsterdam Data Centre
Interxion, a European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that the first 1,200 m2 of its new 7,000 m2 Amsterdam data centre—its fifth Amsterdam-area centre—is now operational. 70%...
View ArticleFujitsu offer nice Dynamic Cube Blade Server
Fujitsu just announced a new blade server system using a custom designed motherboard optimized for the form factor of the chassis so that they have been able to fit 18 blades with two CPUs each into a...
View ArticleCurtains in Sunnyvale
I am on the West Coast of the US this week visiting with NetApp in Sunnyvale again. On this trip I had the opportunity to visit a couple of NetApp’s internal data centers (B11 and the impressive B2...
View ArticleNext Generation Data start to fill Newport Site
Next Generation Data have started to fill up their massive 180MVA data centre site at Newport Gwent and are celebrating with a new website. NGD 1 is offering large scale space only contracts and...
View ArticleNext Generation Data announce first tenants
NGD and BT announced this week that BT has agreed to take 380 racks at NGD Europe, Next Generation Data Limited’s newly-launched 75,000 square metres facility near Newport in Gwent. Rollout began in...
View ArticleData Center Photographs
For years I have been a prolific photographer of Data Centres all over the world. I have hundreds of images, some brilliant, some out of focus and under-exposed, (I am a data centre guy, not a...
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