Recent Datacenter News

• Growth of OCP Data Center Gear Sales Outpaces Expectations Even when removing Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace from the equation, sales of OCP-certified hardware is expected to reach $10.7 billion by 2022.
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  CyrusOne Preps 144-Megawatt Santa Clara Campus With On-Site Power CyrusOne has begun construction on a 144-megawatt data center campus in Santa Clara, which will feature on-site power generation. The project will be the first for CyrusOne in Silicon Valley.
• Why CyrusOne Shares Tanked, and Why It’s Nothing to Worry About DCK Investor Edge: As has been its tendency, Wall Street underappreciates the level of investment and the timelines of a long-term global hyperscale play.
• Swim Open Sources Its Machine Learning Platform for Edge Computing Taking the "open core" route, the startup wants the open source community to take its platform in more directions than it's been able to so far.
• Can Bloom Energy Transform the Data Center Industry? Peter Gross, the startup’s VP of mission critical, says he hasn’t seen anything more disruptive after decades in the business.
• Vantage Data Centers Powers Up New Campus in Ashburn Vantage Data Centers is in growth mode in 2019. The company has just completed its new data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia, and raised $675 million to fund its expansion.
• France Touts Tax Break for Data Centers to Lure Brexit Clients Incentive, introduced this year, halves taxes on energy usage for data center operators.
• Google's On-Prem Data Center Software for Hybrid Cloud Now in Beta Configuration management added in latest version of Cloud Services Platform, which differentiates by being able to run on customers’ existing hardware.
• How Energy-Assisted Storage Is Being Put to Work to Increase HDD Capacity Vendors are tapping energy-assisted recording storage to overcome HDD capacity/size limits.
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  Equinix Adding A New Data Center Building at the Dallas Infomart Equinix will invest $138 million to create a second data center building in the parking lot alongside the existing Dallas Infomart, expanding capacity at one of the industry's iconic carrier hotels.
• Power Deal: Legrand to Acquire Universal Electric Legrand said Tuesday that it is acquiring Universal Electric Corporation, makers of the Starline busway products that provide overhead power connections for data center racks.
• Should There Be ‘Safe Harbor’ Against Data-Breach Lawsuits? New law on the books in Ohio protects firms that have suffered cyberattacks from being sued if they follow best practices.
• Data is the New Oil: Five Reasons That’s Not Necessarily A Good Thing Crude itself is a commodity: The techniques used to clean it, fractionate it into different products and distribute it is where the value sits. The same will be true of IoT.
• Facebook's AI Chief Researching New Breed of Semiconductor Yann LeCun says the company is leaving "no stone unturned" in chip effort, and that existing chips are largely inadequate for deep learning.
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  What 5G Will Mean to The Data Center Industry 5G wireless is expected to increase the volume of mobile data. Here's a closer look at the timing of the 5G rollout and what all that data traffic will mean for data centers.
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  Weighing the Benefits of Colocation: Build a Data Center or Go Colo? As big data continues to explode, many more enterprises are having to make a decision: partner with a colocation provider or go it on their own, building and operating a new data center. A recent white paper from Server Technology weighs the benefits of colocation and lays out the pros and cons of both paths.
• Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: February 15, 2019 For your weekend reading, here are the five biggest things we wrote about this week.
• Google to Spend $13B on US Data Center and Office Construction This Year The company said it will build four new data center facilities this year, with major expansion at three other locations, giving its platform physical footprint in 24 states.
• Why IBM Is Untethering Watson AI Software from Its Cloud AI models are best trained right where the data is, and most customer data isn’t in IBM’s cloud.
• Amazon May Get Tax Break for Poor With Data Center Build in Richest County The tract in Virginia’s Loudoun County picked as opportunity zone, where AWS is building a data center, was also pitched for Amazon's national HQ2 competition.