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With so many data centers trying to cut costs to keep their customers on board, many are trying new or innovative ways to cut costs. And one of the major power consumers is keeping the data center cool to run […]

Have you ever sat back on your couch or your office desk chair and wondered silently to yourself while listening to your favorite radio show, “What exactly is a modular data center?” Well, you’re not alone—trust me. There’s presumably droves […]

I think we can all agree that climate change is real and it’s a bad thing, right? Right? …Right? RIGHT?! Don’t be that person—it hasn’t rained in California in what seems like 40 years and it might snow in October, […]

It was a weird sight if you were lucky enough to see it. The entire US House of Representative packed themselves into a couple of buses and drove around the Washington DC area to see if any data centers had balloons […]

UPDATE: Nvidia acquired SwiftStack on March 5, 2020 There’s a meme going around the internet called “Too Afraid to Ask Andy” which plays on the popular character from NBC’s Parks and Rec, Andy Dwyer. Below is my “Too Afraid to Ask […]

Data might seem like a no-problem for the regular person. Dropped right into the mobile age, people can retrieve information at the blink of an eye. But you already know that. What you might not know, is what it takes […]

In 1993, hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan released the song C.R.E.A.M., an acronym for Cash Rules Everything Around Me. How does the Wu-Tang Clan and their song about greed relate to the Internet? Clearly, you’ve never met the major telecom […]

We’ve talked about cloud vs. dedicated servers until we were blue in the face. Luckily for us, we ditched that face and got a new face to talk about this subject with until it becomes blue (at which point the cycle […]