U.S. data centers use more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. Global data centers used roughly 416 terawatts (or about 3% of the total electricity) last year. This is a big problem, and it's getting bigger. forbes.com/sites/forbeste…

Technical cleaning is unlikely to be at the top of any data center operator’s priority list. If it’s there at all, it’s probably only grudgingly so. datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks…

Why do so many businesses and non-profit organizations turn to Digital Realty? Its data centers are designed, built and operated by professionals with decades of experience. forbes.com/sites/moneysho…

The Nordic countries' low outside temperatures, cheap power, and stable economies are proving hard for tech giants to resist when it comes to siting new datacenters. zdnet.com/google-amp/pic…

“Today’s data centers are really out of sync with the equipment that’s inside them. It would be like using the enclosure for a 1984 Macintosh with the current generation of iMac. It just doesn’t jive very well.”networkworld.com/article/324280…

If cloud is a model and not a place, then the promise of Microsoft’s Azure Stack is that you should be able to have that model anywhere, be it a Microsoft data center or your own facility. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be a data center. datacenterknowledge.com/edge-computing…

Hyperscale operators are defined as enormous companies that need to provide computing on a massive scale. You would think that there would be a limited number of this type of highly specialized data center, but 2017 was a breakout year. techcrunch.com/2017/12/30/hyp…

Privilege escalation is much scarier in the cloud, where the same server could be working for dozens of people at once. Platforms let online companies spread a single program across thousands of servers in data centers across the world. theverge.com/platform/amp/2…

The temperature is rising in the hot aisle for data centre businesses – $20bn was spent on mergers and acquisitions last year. theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/dat…

Iron Mountain Inc. completed its acquisition of the U.S. operations of Phoenix-based IO Data Centers LLC on Wednesday. Iron Mountain the Boston-based storage and information management services company, bought IO for $1.34 billion.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2…

Global interconnection giant Equinix is not changing its business model. However, the line is blurring between what constitutes wholesale data center and retail colocation deployments. platforms.datacenterknowledge.com/equinix/equini…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has extended its cloud computing infrastructure again, adding more capacity to its London region. Amazon's cloud computing resources are hosted in multiple locations worldwide. zdnet.com/google-amp/art…

Instead of building facilities on their own, tech giants often turn to REITs like Digital Realty. The firm offers ideal conditions for storing data, including temperature controls, physical security, and backup power supplies. seekingalpha.com/amp/article/41…

Nowhere is the impact of new data processing models more impactful than in storage architecture. It’s a completely different beast, however, figuring out how to keep those resources fed with a steady stream of data to process. forbes.com/sites/patrickm…

Microsoft Corp. took a $13.8 billion charge related to the new U.S. tax law but reported significant growth in its cloud operations, the business fueling the company’s resurgence. wsj.com/articles/micro…

AT&T is once again looking to sell its data center business. AT&T is the last US telco standing, with its 300 or so colocation facilities around the globe. datacenterknowledge.com/business/att-s…

The site is also home to a new solar plant, which will feature 10,665 photovoltaic panels and will generate 2.9 Gigawatt hour of energy. Google said this is the first solar facility it has built on a data center site. zdnet.com/article/google…

A second wave of consolidation is now focusing on “not only reducing the hardware footprint, but accelerating virtualization adoption to deliver a cloud-like experience on-premises.” datacenterknowledge.com/manage/wave-da…

Oracle is making heavy investments in its cloud infrastructure with the addition of 12 new data center locations around the world, the company announced Monday. businessinsider.com/oracle-invests…

For the first time, the Defense Department will begin moving classified data and applications to Amazon Web Services’ Secret Region—the same cloud environment developed for the CIA and intelligence community several years ago. nextgov.com/it-modernizati…