With knowledge middle information shifting quicker than ever, we need to make it straightforward for trade professionals to chop by way of the noise and discover crucial tales of the week.
The DCN Information Roundup brings you the newest information and developments throughout the information middle trade – from investments and mergers to safety threats and trade traits.
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Fractured Fiber
The latest spike in severed undersea cables has underscored the vulnerability of world infrastructure.
This week, eight West African nations had been reported to have been affected by harm to 4 subsea cables, triggering outages and connectivity points for cellular operators and web service suppliers. The reason for the cable faults has not but been decided.
The information got here lower than a month after three telecommunications cables had been broken within the Crimson Sea. The anchor of a cargo ship that was attacked by Houthi militants was suspected of being the probably trigger of injury.
The issues with cables on both aspect of the continent created a capability crunch, with prospects of these cables scrambling to seek out various routes.
In an more and more interconnected world, addressing the fragility of undersea cables is paramount for sustaining international connectivity and resilience.
It stays to be seen how governments, enterprises, and operators will unite to confront these enduring challenges.
AI Overload
Business consultants got here collectively this week to debate the snowballing challenges AI presents to energy distribution inside knowledge facilities.
Throughout a webinar hosted by DCN, the swift and profound impression of AI on the information middle trade was top-of-mind, with a concentrate on the challenges it presents to energy distribution.
“AI is immediately all over the place without delay,” mentioned Christopher McLean, principal at Crucial Facility Group, who famous that the expansion of AI has been accompanied by an unprecedented improve in vitality demand.
McLean was joined by John Berenbrok, director of product administration at Starline, for a wide-ranging dialogue that addressed a number of the most urgent questions going through knowledge facilities in mild of AI’s dominance.
Take a look at our protection for all the main points.
The dialogue got here as EQT Company, a pure gasoline producer, introduced the shock $5.5 billion acquisition of Equitrans Midstream Company, a pipeline enterprise it spun out six years in the past.
In a name on Monday, EQT CEO Toby Rice mentioned the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, which is owned by Equitrans, will assist meet quickly rising energy demand from synthetic intelligence within the southeastern US.
EU AI Act
In associated information, the European Union has handed its sweeping AI Act, which is able to set up powerful tips (and potential penalties) for companies utilizing synthetic intelligence.
As InformationWeek experiences, the EU will roll out the new regulations in phases between 2024 and 2027 concentrating on “high-risk” AI functions. Firms operating afoul of the brand new guidelines might face fines of as much as 7% of world turnover, or $38 million, whichever is larger.
Discussing the modifications in a weblog publish this week, Forrester analyst Enza Iannopollo mentioned: “The EU AI Act is the world’s first and solely set of binding necessities to mitigate AI dangers. The purpose is to allow establishments to use AI absolutely, in a protected, reliable, and inclusive method.”
Take a look at our earlier protection of the EU AI Act to seek out out what the laws means for enterprise leaders.
World Information Heart Developments
In knowledge middle development and improvement information this week, cloud supplier OVHcloud has announced the opening of its second knowledge middle in Canada.
Situated in Cambridge, Ontario, the C$145 million ($107 million) facility has a capability of 10,000 servers and a pair of MW of energy. It is going to be accessible to OVHcloud US prospects and can purportedly ship improved latency in comparison with the present OVHcloud knowledge middle close to Montreal and the OVHcloud knowledge middle in Vint Hill, Virginia.
Staying in Virginia, Skanska has signed a contact with an as-yet-unnamed shopper to construct an information middle within the japanese US state. The $242 million deal will herald the event of a 23,000 sq.m knowledge middle throughout three halls.
Elsewhere, Yondr Group has energised its first campus in Malaysia, marking a major milestone in delivering the positioning’s energy infrastructure.
Situated in Johor’s Sedenak Tech Park, the campus is about to ship 300 MW of important IT capability when absolutely full. It is going to see the event of a number of phases, with entry to darkish fibre connectivity, scalable utilities, and infrastructure.
Over within the UK, Equinix has revealed plans to remodel a former industrial website in Slough, 20 miles west of London, into an information centre campus. The session closes on 27 March.
Google has signed a new agreement to deliver wind and photo voltaic vitality to the native grid. Final 12 months, development began on the corporate’s first Arizona knowledge middle in Mesa, which is able to use air-cooled technology. Google has now introduced an vitality provide settlement to help greater than 430 MW of new-to-the-grid, carbon-free vitality capability within the state.
“With this new settlement, we’re not simply offsetting our vitality use, but in addition actively working so as to add carbon-free vitality capability on to Arizona’s grid when and the place it is wanted,” Google mentioned.
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