In 2006, Sun Microsystems unveiled the first container data center. Project Blackbox, an energy-efficient, water-cooled turnkey data center housed in an International Standards Organization (ISO) ...

Modular data centers are catching on. But they raise new management concerns and efficiency claims may be exaggerated. Interest in modular data centers is growing, fueled by high-profile endorsements ...

Ron Mann of Compu Dynamics Modular explains how modular data centers are bridging the gap between AI demands and traditional ...

Mini data centers are sprouting up on the edges of networks – in factories, on container ships, and piggybacked on cellular base stations – as enterprises and service providers look to embed compute ...

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Today’s explosion of AI service providers has everyone looking back at the dot-com bubble, revisiting the technological boom and bust at the turn of the millennia for historical precedent to help us ...

To get a picture of Microsoft’s ambition for providing software such as Exchange and Office over the Internet, consider the number of empty “parking spaces” in its new data center in Chicago, which it ...