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Diane Bryant

Intel’s Diane Bryant, leader of its data center group, taking leave of absence

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced Wednesday that Diane Bryant, the executive in charge of Intel’s Data Center Group, is taking… Read More

Despite big quarter for cloud, slow quarter for Intel’s Data Center Group drags down Q1 earnings

Intel’s data center chips have been a bright spot for the company over the last few years as PC demand… Read More

Apple will build a 200-megawatt wind farm for its Prineville, Ore., data center facility

Apple signed a deal earlier this year to purchase 200 megawatts of wind power for its Prineville, Ore., data center,… Read More

Amazon Web Services to open data centers in Sweden in 2018, continuing global growth

Amazon Web Services said it will open data centers in Sweden next year to serve customers in Nordic countries such as… Read More

Stranger Things

Greenpeace parody slams Netflix over dirty energy use with a little help from ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘House of Cards,’ other originals

In an appeal to binge-watchers everywhere, Greenpeace is using favorite Netflix characters to call out the streaming giant for its dependence… Read More

The Cloud in 2017: Seven key trends, from AWS and Azure to voice services and machine learning

Here’s a no-brainer: 2017 will be a big year for the cloud. Cloud computing is an innovation rivaling the advent of… Read More

Google to achieve 100% renewable power next year, relying mostly on the wind

With 2.6 GW (gigawatts) of renewable energy purchased, Google is on pace to reach 100 percent renewable energy next year,… Read More

Amazon Web Services pledges to power data centers with 50% renewable energy by end of 2017

Large-scale data centers consume huge amounts of power, but Amazon Web Services is making an effort to move more of… Read More

Inside look: Amazon ready to start warming office towers with recycled data center heat in Seattle

It sounded crazy last year when Amazon first announced plans to warm its new office towers in Seattle with recycled heat from… Read More

Microsoft’s cloud initiatives demanding big investments under the sea

Microsoft said today it has invested in three new deep-water cables designed to deliver data at higher speeds and greater capacity… Read More

Apple to spend almost $2 billion on two new European data centers

Apple’s cloud is getting bigger. The company announced today that it will spend more than $1.9 billion (€1.7 billion) on… Read More

Amazon considers data center expansion in Oregon, lobbies to fix tax issue

Amazon.com continues to expand its data center footprint all over the world, and the online retailing and cloud computing powerhouse… Read More

Microsoft calls out U.S. government for double standard in email warrant case

Microsoft today made its case to the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a legal dispute between the company and… Read More

Ohio governor says Amazon committed to $1 billion data center

Reports surfaced last month that Amazon.com planned to spend $1.1 billion on a new data center in Dublin, Ohio —… Read More

Amazon reveals plans to spend whopping $1.1 billion on Ohio data center

Seattle-based Amazon.com is considering a big expansion in the Buckeye State, revealing plans to spend us much as $1.1 billion… Read More

How Amazon’s new Seattle office buildings will recycle ‘waste heat’ from nearby data centers

The biodomes Amazon is planning for its new Seattle campus aren’t the only green aspects to the company’s expansion in the… Read More

Google is improving its data centers with the power of machine learning

In its continuing quest to improve the efficiency of its data centers, Google has found a new solution: machine learning.… Read More

Stealthy data center infrastructure startup Igneous Systems raises $23.6M series A from NEA, Madrona and others

Igneous Systems has been operating in stealth mode since the company was formed with a $3 million seed round last… Read More

Microsoft to open $1.1 billion ‘Project Alluvion’ data center in Iowa

Microsoft is the company behind a $1.13 billion data center known as “Project Alluvion,” taking shape in West Des Moines,… Read More

Seattle data center operator AdHost acquired by Cequel

AdHost, one of Seattle’s better known data center operators, has been acquired in a deal of undisclosed size by TierPoint… Read More

Apple investing $250 million in central Oregon data center

The Pacific Northwest data center boom continues, with The Oregonian’s Mike Rogoway reporting last week that Apple has struck a… Read More

New datacenter coming to the old Isilon building

Digital Fortress plans to open a new 25,000 square foot data center just north of downtown Seattle this July, adding… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Ex-Amazon and Boeing data center experts launch Vizualiiz

Craig Kelly and Bob Cartwright have worked in the data center business for years, with Kelly spending more than a decade… Read More

Apple’s secretive project ‘Maverick’ may bring massive data center to Oregon

Apple is considering building a massive new data center in Prineville, Oregon, next door to where Facebook opened its own… Read More

Data furnaces: The next big thing in home heating?

Data centers produce massive amounts of heat, so much so that companies like Facebook have gone to extreme lengths to… Read More

Fisher sells Seattle HQ, data center for $160 million

Hines Global REIT Inc. is paying $160 million to buy Fisher Plaza, a purchase that includes the headquarters building and… Read More

Facebook’s environmentally-friendly data center features high-tech cooling system

Facebook today announced that its Prineville data center in Oregon has received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council,… Read More

Video: Facebook’s ultra-efficient server, a guided tour

I’ve been spending the afternoon at the SC11 supercomputer conference, taking place this week in Seattle, where one of the… Read More

New $60 million data center slated for downtown Seattle

Citing Seattle as a communications hub and an important portal to Asia, Redwood City, California-based Equinix announced today that it… Read More

Quincy leases Microsoft water treatment plant in novel deal

The city of Quincy, Wash., will lease a water treatment plant from Microsoft on the site of the company’s data… Read More

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