Data centers use less energy than you think
If the world is using more and more data, then it must be using more and more energy, right? Not so, says a comprehensive new analysis.
Feb 27, 2020
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News tagged with data centers
Business
Google pledges new $10 bn investment in US in 2020
Google said Wednesday it would invest more than $10 billion in US offices and data centers in 2020, including its new campus planned for New York City and projects in 10 other states.
Feb 26, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Predicting how well neural networks will scale
For all the progress researchers have made with machine learning in helping us doing things like crunch numbers, drive cars and detect cancer, we rarely think about how energy-intensive it is to maintain the massive data ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Estonia starts building 100-million-euro data center
An Estonian tech company has kicked off construction of the Baltic states' largest commercial data center, an estimated 100-million-euro ($108-million) project aimed at large financial services, telecom and technology firms ...
Feb 20, 2020
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Business
Microsoft: 'carbon-negative' by 2030 even for supply chain
Microsoft is pledging to become 100% "carbon-negative" by 2030 by removing more carbon from the environment than it emits.
Jan 16, 2020
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Business
Intel buys Israeli AI chip startup Habana for $2B
Intel is paying $2 billion to buy an Israeli startup that specializes in processing chips for artificial intelligence.
Dec 16, 2019
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Internet
Google healthcare data move makes some queasy
Google on Tuesday defended a project aimed at modernizing healthcare while giving it access to medical data of millions of people.
Nov 12, 2019
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Hardware
OpenTitan for data centers: Google, partners push secure silicon design
The Google Security Blog on Tuesday announced OpenTitan as an open source chip design, where other organizations have joined Google in an effort to further rise the bar on security surrounding the original Titan chip.
Nov 07, 2019 weblog
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Computer Sciences
Germany shuts down illegal data center in former NATO bunker
German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and other illegal activities. Seven people were arrested.
Sep 27, 2019
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Hardware
Big Blue's Big Leap: Quantum center takes on 53 qubit system
IBM has a fleet of quantum computers. That much is fairly well known since IBM has been actively promoting quantum computing for several years. But IBM's quantum story will get all the more interesting next month, when a ...
Sep 23, 2019 weblog
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Hardware
Samsung SSDs open a new chapter with fail-in-place
Samsung Electronics has a new series of PCIe 4.0 SSDs that demonstrate technologies to benefit data centers and businesses. The solid state drives (SSDs) use the PCIe 4.0 standard, whereby sequential read and write speeds ...
Sep 21, 2019 weblog
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Computer Sciences
Introducing 'mesh,' a memory-saving plug-in that could boost phone and computer performance
Applications like web browsers or smartphone apps often use a lot of memory. To address this, a research group co-led by Emery Berger, a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has developed ...
Sep 20, 2019
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Engineering
The future of 'extremely' energy-efficient circuits
Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates, and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy—so much energy, in fact, that information communication technology is projected ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Internet
Researcher studies power consumption of cloud infrastructures
In his doctoral dissertation at Umeå University, Jakub Krzywda has developed models and algorithms to control tradeoffs between the power consumption of cloud infrastructures and performance of hosted applications to enable ...
Sep 04, 2019
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Internet
Researchers propose method to balance user experience and cloud cost
For an online gamer, lag is the worst. The gamer watches, telling the avatar to move to avoid another player's attack, but the avatar does nothing. Then, suddenly, the avatar does all of the commands, rapid fire. It was listening, ...
Aug 26, 2019
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