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Cologix CEO Bill Fathers on the Pandemic, the Colocation Market, and Strategy The Data Center Podcast: After a nervous pause at the start of the pandemic, the major North American data center provider’s business skyrocketed.
Cologix exemplifies just about every big trend the data center industry is seeing these days.
It’s one of the beneficiaries of the large appetite infrastructure investors and sovereign wealth funds now have for investing in data center businesses. Its retail colocation and interconnection business has been booming, according to CEO Bill Fathers, while hyperscale platforms have signed on for large amounts of capacity with Cologix to host edge nodes for their clouds.
United-statesTexasVancouverBritish-columbiaCanadaMontrealQuebecCaliforniaDallasTorontoOntarioOttawaYevgeniy Sverdlik, Data Center Knowledge:
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Data Center Podcast. This is Yevgeniy, editor in chief of Data Center Knowledge. Today we're lucky to have with us Charlie Boyle. He is a VP at Nvidia. There, he runs the DGX systems unit. That unit makes and sells Nvidia supercomputers for AI, lots of really cool stuff we're going to talk about today. Charlie, thank you so much for talking to us today.
Charlie Boyle, Nvidia:
Yevgeniy Sverdlik, Data Center Knowledge:
Let's give our listeners a bit of your background. You came to Nvidia five years ago, from some LinkedIn investigation that I've done, after six years at Oracle and you ended up at Oracle because Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, your previous employer. Is that correct?
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Tim Hughes got his start in the data center industry when his friend offered him a contract position at Facebook’s first data center. The social network was leasing space at a DuPont Fabros Technology (now part of Digital Realty) facility in Ashburn, Virginia. The job wasn’t glorious. It entailed pulling pallets, sweeping floors, racking and stacking.
“Everybody that has worked inside of a data center knows, that’s some of the manual labor associated with building the internet,” he said.
He rose through the ranks and eventually became part of Facebook’s site selection team. By that point, in 2014, Facebook had been building its own data centers in addition to leasing them, designing and operating some of the world’s largest and most advanced computing facilities.
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A couple weeks ago a new submarine cable linking US and Europe came online. The system, called Dunant, set a new record for data transmission capacity on a subsea cable, and that record has everything to do with one of its primary investors and users, Google, and a trend the company started more than a decade ago, which has since reshaped the submarine cable industry.
The tech giant was first of the big four US-based hyperscale cloud platforms to start investing in its own slices of these transcontinental data highways. The group, which also includes Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, has invested roughly $20 billion in new cables all over the world, Alan Mauldin, research director at TeleGeography, told us in an interview for
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