DCD exclusive: Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment employed wave energy and post-quantum cryptography on the seabed off Scotland. But the big lessons could be learnt on land

Data centers include a massive amount of electrical devices, powered by buses and cables. Let’s look at moves to simplify that

Data center power consumption is costly - but servers are getting more efficient

You might expect the physical design of data center hardware to be pretty standard by now. Don’t be so sure…

MacStadium runs Apple hardware in its data centers. That’s a surprisingly sensible thing to do

Twenty years ago, the public Internet took off in AOL’s Dulles Technology Center. Now the building is coming back into play, ready for the 21st century

We all know Intel for its chips, but perhaps we should be paying more attention to its data centers

We made something different, let us know what you think

Colombia’s Grupo Éxito needed to implement DCIM to get its infrastructure under control. It took the process step by step, says Celia Villarrubia

If Rack Scale Design succeeds, Intel will be defining how data centers will be built

With a prefabricated modular design, Tigo Paraguay is making a new data center for disaster recovery

Facebook organized an OCP Technology Day, and Menno Kortekaas was there to make detailed notes

A PhD student of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge shares some of the findings from his fieldwork in data centers

More power in a new Hong Kong facility is a win-win proposal, says NTT’s Asian cloud leader  

The 19in rack has 80 years of tradition. Some say it might be time for a change

To weather the summer heat better, your data center should warm up, says Intel’s Jeff Klaus