Thursday, January 19, 2017

Telehouse Global Spotlight: Telehouse Paris Data Centers

C’est Magnifique! The Paris Data Center and Colocation Market Is Thriving Given a growing population of approximately 2.3 million inhabitants, with surrounding suburbs that are home to around 10.5 million, Paris, the most populous urban area in the European Union, offers enough opportunity to...

Monday, January 16, 2017

Telehouse for Technophiles: Robots Enter the Data Center

Robots Promise Energy and Operational Cost Reduction The word ‘robot’ was first heard in a 1920 Czechoslovakian theater production to describe human-like machines that were created to work in a factory. Thereafter, including Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, “Metropolis,” with its female robot...

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Telehouse Green: Any Way the Wind Blows

Data Centers are Harnessing the Power of Wind Energy More than eight million data centers exist around the world, using upwards of 30GW of energy each year, an amount that is steadily increasing. A study by the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) revealed that if planet’s data centers were a country, they would represent the world’s 12th-largest consumer of electricity, ranking somewhere...

Friday, January 6, 2017

Telehouse, The Human Element: Speaking Truth to Power

Dave Kinney, Director of Facility Planning and Operations at Telehouse, on PUE According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, data centers throughout the U.S. are projected to consume 139 billion kilowatt-hours by 2020, placing a major strain on natural resources as well as facilities’ bottom line. To avoid excessive consumption of energy, data center owners and operators utilize Power...