Market pressures and risk tradeoffs made by cloud providers might be the key to understanding why outages happen and what lies ahead for resolving cloud outages that can bring down regional, if not national commerce.
Some projections indicate the industry will double in size over the next decade, meaning efforts to mitigate its climate footprint need to accelerate. Absent pressure from governments, it will largely depend on the chipmakers themselves.
Against the grain, data analysis software firm Palantir, backed by investor Peter Thiel, accelerates hiring while Silicon Valley peers have slowed hiring and eliminated job openings.
Electric motors use 45 percent of the world’s electricity. A typical data center averages 500 electric motors in their HVAC systems alone. Optimizing electric motor performance is the easiest way to improve energy efficiency in data centers. Choosing the right motors will not only reduce energy costs, but also reduce mai...
