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Space: The Data Frontier. ...

Underwater data centres use far fewer resources than anything on land.

Companies are racing to cool down their servers as energy prices and temperatures soar. And the worst is yet to come.

Software giant Microsoft is to build a new energy efficient data centre region in Finland, which will supply heating to nearby cities and towns

The Chinese government want to build four new clusters in the countrys northern and western regions.

The Chinese government want to build four new clusters in the countrys northern and western regions.

Two very different recently announced initiatives are hoping to make some progress with the vexed question of managing data centre power use and emissions.

(Photo by panumas nikhomkhai from Pexels) China has decided to experiment with constructing an undersea data center in a bid to significantly cut cooling costs. As Reuters reports, the design of the data center has been finalized and a location selected off the coast of the southern island province of Hainan. The project is a collaboration between the local Hainan government, maritime tech company Highlander, and ISP Beijing Sinnet, but it remains unclear who is ultimately funding what is thou...

Data Center Operators Look To The Sea For Better Performance, Lower Carbon Microsofts Project Natick Notorious for their massive energy requirements, data center operators began to seek alternate methods of powering the structures more than a decade ago. While companies like Google and Microsoft have been investigating the efficacy of water-powered data centers for some time, the concept didn’t come to fruition until the recent launch of a seven-megaw...

Ping along: What makes Microsofts data centres tick Alvin R. Cabral/Dubai Filed on April 30, 2021 The Northern Isles data centre being retrieved from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, with a coat of algae, barnacles and sea anemones growing on it during its two-year deployment. One of the key aspects of Microsoft’s highly-secure, intricately-designed data centres is its contribution to the company’s sustainability goals, an aim of which is to become carbon-negative by 20...