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Sears Plans To Retrofit 2,500 "Ghostbox" Stores As Data Centers
There are over a billion square feet of vacant commercial space in the US right now, most of it in the form of big box stores. This being America, we’ve come up with plenty of intelligent ways to...
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IBM's Using Hacked Roombas To Hunt Down Datacenter Overheating
To ensure the cooling and ventilation systems in the company's datacenters are running at peak efficiency, IBM now employs autonomous temperature-monitoring robots built on the iRobot Create platform...
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Is the NSA's Data Center Melting Down Because It's Spying Too Much?
This is embarrassingly funny. The WSJ reports that the NSA's new Utah data center has suffered 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months because of electrical surges. The NSA is basically using so much power...
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Seattle Wants to Heat Itself Using Waste Heat From Data Centers
Seattle is considering the idea of using waste heat from data centers to heat itself, funnelling energy from gigantic server rooms into a new district heating system to keep people warm.Read more...
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What the Hell Is Google Building On This Massive Barge?
Cnet reports that Google is building something super secret—and super huge—on a barge that's floating in the San Francisco Bay. What the hell is this thing?Read more...
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Is Google's Mysterious Barge Actually a Floating Glass Store?
After an odd but engrossing CNET story last week, everybody's wondering what the strange barge with ties to Google is doing docked near San Francisco. At first, it looked like the 250-foot-long...
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An Up Close Look at the East Coast Google Mystery Barge
The Google mystery barges docked near San Francisco and Portland, Maine are getting even more mysterious. We've seen the barge and heard the arguments about what's inside. But news that the search...
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What Do You Think Is on the Google Barge?
For almost a week now, the internet's been trawling the depths of its imagination trying to figure out what the heck Google is doing building barges. Obscure patent documents suggest they're floating...
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Why Bitcoin Miners Are Moving to Tiny Towns in Washington State
There's not much in rural Washington, but there are lot of dams. And dams mean hydroelectric power. Following the lure of cheap electricity, Bitcoin miners and their power-hungry server farms are...
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How Much It Costs the NSA to Store an Entire Country's Phone Calls
On Monday, we learned that the NSA is recording every single phone call in the Bahamas and storing the data for a month. This news arrives just six weeks after we learned that the NSA was recording...
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Building the Part of Facebook No One Ever Sees
Ever since we humans gave up the nomadic life and started building homes, architecture had one goal: To make life better for humans. But now, a new architecture is taking shape in remote, frozen...
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Inside the Giant Data Center Hidden In the Middle of Manhattan
Between 1928 and 1932, two Art Deco skyscrapers were built in Lower Manhattan to house the telecommunications infrastructure for Western Union and AT&T. Almost 100 years later, the towers are...
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Why This Company Wants To Build Data Centers Next To Gas Storage Sites
The problem with data centers is excess heat. The problem with liquified natural gas terminals is excess cold. In a perfect world, one problem would neatly cancel out the other—which is exactly the...
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Amazon's Using the Heat From Its Data Centers To Warm Its New HQ
Downtown Seattle is being slowly consumed by Amazon-funded infrastructure, thanks to the expansion of its corporate headquarters—glass domes , bike lanes, streetcar improvements. Now the company has...
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Facebook's Wind-Powered Data Center Is Now Processing Your Posts
Facebook's first data center powered solely by renewable energy is now in operation in Altoona, Iowa. The center was expected to open in 2015, so it's ahead of schedule.Read more...
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How Facebook Is Hacking Together a Better Data Center
Data centers are boring. They have to be; these are spaces of control, consistency, security. You wouldn't expect to find much creativity inside the plain facades of these highly-regulated...
View ArticleApple Just Spent an Incredible Amount of Money on Solar Power
$848 million. That's the amount of cash Apple is spending on what Bloomberg calls "the biggest commercial solar deal EVER." That may seem like a crap ton of money to us, it's still less than a percent...
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Here's How Much Energy We Waste On Cat GIFs and Twitterbooks
Are you sitting comfortably? Good, because you’re about to get a good old-fashioned dose of guilt. The folks at SciShow have put together a video examining how much energy we waste on running the...
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Microsoft Wants to Build Data Centers Underwater
“50% of us live near the coast,” Microsoft says. “Why doesn’t our data?” Read more...
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Data Centers of the Future Could Be Towering Skyscrapers
Data centers are usually vast, cavernous warehouse-like spaces rammed full of computers and cooling systems. But a pair of Italian architects has imagined a sustainable alternative that would meld...
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Can a Loud Noise Really Bring Down a Data Center?
This week, a Nasdaq Nordic stock exchange data center in Finland was taken down by its fire suppression system. But these systems don’t use water to quench the flames, so how can they knock out a bunch...
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Intel Says It Made the 'World's Densest' SSD By Cramming 32-Terabytes Into...
You probably haven’t touched a 12-inch ruler since your grade school days, but think back to how that makeshift sword felt in your hand; that’s roughly the same size as a new solid state drive from...
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You Can Watch Live Video From Microsoft's Underwater Data Center If That's...
Back in June, Microsoft built an underwater data center off the Scottish coast. The company has installed some underwater cameras to keep an eye on things, but Microsoft isn’t keeping the view all to...
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Microsoft's Underwater Data Center Rises From the Seafloor a Grimy Success
Microsoft’s underwater Northern Isles data center has risen again from the ocean depth, the company announced on Monday, and it is remarkably intact other than being covered in sea scum.Read more...
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Apple's Already Starting Work on 6G Before 6G Is Even a Thing
Apple’s first 5G phones arrived mere months ago, but the company is already exploring the future of cellular connectivity. Read more...
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