Weekly Data Center Industry News

Weekly Data Center Industry News -Second Weeks of Sep

1.5 Data Center Cooling Mistakes to Avoid

There's more to data center cooling than simply blowing air around to cool equipment.

Here's how to avoid five common data center cooling oversights.

2.The Futility of Extending Chilled-Air Cooling

Chilled-air systems have been a loyal companion for most data-center operators for years,

but the inefficiencies of those systems are now becoming exposed.

3.How Will AI Impact Data Center REIT Investment?

CenterSquare's Patrick Wilson on how REITs are poised to leverage the coming wave of AI-related demand for data center

4.AWS selected as sports betting company FanDuel’s strategic cloud provider

Gaming and online gambling company using AWS Outposts and Local Zones

5.Real estate investor Pimco launches new European hyperscale provider Apto

Taps former Equinix UK head as CEO

6.EdgeConneX enters Malaysia’s data center market

The data center provider plans to build data centers in three markets, offering nearly 300 MWs of capacity.

7.Nuclear-powered campus in Sweden will power data centers

Small modular player Kärnfull Next plans commercial campus at Nyköping

8.A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption,

and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply

9.A comeback for private clouds

Enterprises facing high cloud costs are taking a more balanced look at where workloads

should reside and considering repatriation to a cloud in their own data center.

10.Report: Data centers guzzling enormous amounts of water to cool generative AI servers 

11.Walsh kicks off $1B Microsoft data center on former Foxconn site

Earthwork and excavation on the property in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, have begun, setting the stage for foundation work this fall.

12.New data center funding comes with new power demands 

13.Google applies to develop Kansas City data center

Company begins making movements in Northland, Kansas City, nearly two years after purchasing land

14.AustralianSuper invests €1.5 billion in Vantage Data Centers EMEA

Retirement fund to support Vantage’s expansion plans

15.DC Two considering name change to Adisyn

New name, new strategy

16.Manulife Investment wraps acquisition of Serverfarm

The acquisition will drive the accelerated global expansion of Serverfarm's data center portfolio and platform.

17.What to Do with Outdated Data Center Hardware

What you don't want to do is throw it out. Here are ways to put that outdated data center hardware to good use.

18.Schneider Electric: Energy crisis disrupting net zero plans

19.Nvidia partners with Reliance Jio for 2,000MW of AI data centers, Tata for AI cloud in India

Companies will build local large language models and generative AI tools

20.Land and Expand: Google, Vantage Data Centers, Microsoft

Land and Expand is a periodic feature at Data Center Frontier highlighting recent data center developments

including new sites, land acquisition and campus expansion news.

Today we look at new developments from Google, Vantage Data Centers, and Microsoft.

21.Data Center News Roundup: Data Center Demands and AI Regulations

In this week’s top data center news stories, chip wars, unmet data center demands, and the role AI can play in data center management.

22.SK ecoplant plots 120MW data center campus in Pohang, South Korea

Campus to connect to new cable landing station linked to Fukuoka in Japan