AFCOM study looks at industry growth and trends in data center skills and technology

Fremont 1 facility went down for unspecified reasons; customers complain about lack of communication.

Data center provider and some of its clients will be the first customers

Forty-three businesses signed long-term agreements for a record 5.4 gigawatts of clean power including solar and wind worldwide last year, according to a report.

Critical Thinking: Growing role of hyper-scale cloud platforms in enterprise IT raises big questions about the open source data center project’s long-term mission.

Critical Thinking: Operators must do more over the coming years to prepare and protect facilities against extreme weather incidents.

UKFast says its facilities went down after contractor drove spike through power main

Critical Thinking: The ability to virtualize distribution, storage, and use of power in the data center may finally be gaining traction, but there are still hurdles to overcome.

Enel plans to invest $430 million in wind-power project; also began operations at 300-megawatt Missouri wind farm

“This is probably the worst-case scenario that could have happened to us.”