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Insights: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Virtual reality (VR) allows users to interact with digital environments and objects, typically using a headset. When you turn your head, you see other areas of a 360-degree digital environment. Some VR apps include controllers that allow users to manipulate digital objects. But these 360-degree video applications require a LOT of data, and delivering these experiences across the Internet presents a major challenge.

Metaverse Building Boom: Meta Adds 3 Data Centers at Illinois Cloud Campus

By Rich Miller - April 27, 2022 1 Comment

A rendering of the future expansion of the Meta data center in DeKalb County Illinois. Meta is adding three data center buildings. (Image: Meta)

Meta continues to prepare its digital infrastructure for the metaverse, adding three more data centers to its $1 billion cloud campus in Illinois. We look at Meta’s accelerating building boom and what it tells us about the future of data infrastructure.

Tagged With: Facebook, Meta

NVIDIA: New Hardware Will Transform Data Centers into AI Factories

By Rich Miller - March 22, 2022

Rows of NVIDIA DGX systems supported by NVIDIA Spectrum-4 , a 400Gbps end-to-end networking platform. (Image: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA today unveiled powerful new GPU hardware to serve as the key building blocks for its vision to transform data centers into “AI factories” unleashing new frontiers in technical computing. That includes the new Hopper architecture and H100 GPUs.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, NVIDIA

Meta Is Building a Giant $800 Million Data Center in Idaho

By Rich Miller - February 16, 2022

An illustration of the 960,000 square foot data center that Meta will be building in Kuna, Idaho. (Photo: Meta)

Meta will build an $800 million data center in Kuna, Idaho as it continues adding infrastructure to support its future metaverse. The 960,000 SF square feet campus is another sign that Meta is building big and building everywhere.

Tagged With: Facebook, Idaho, Meta

The Big City Edge: Dallas is a Hotbed for Edge Computing

By Rich Miller - February 1, 2022

Several leading players in the edge market have deployments in Dallas, showcasing innovation and laying the groundwork for future growth. Here’s why the Dallas data center market is a hotbed for edge computing.

Tagged With: Dallas Data Center Market, Dallas Data Center Market Special report, Digital Realty, Edge Computing, Internet of Things

Metaverse Platform Roblox Adds Data Center to Address 73-Hour Outage

By Rich Miller - January 24, 2022

Gaming and metaverse platform Roblox is expanding its infrastructure to address a 73-hour outage in October that left its 50 million daily users offline. The outage highlights the growing focus on infrastructure complexity and uptime.

Tagged With: Downtime, Metaverse, Roblox

The Metaverse Will Need A Lot of Data Centers

By Rich Miller - December 16, 2021

Horizon Worlds is a social VR experience launched by Meta (Facebook) where users can create and explore together. (Image: Meta)

Whatever form they take, metaverse technologies are bound to be resource-intensive applications. We asked our Roundtable experts to put on their futurist hats and explore what the metaverse might mean for digital infrastructure.

Tagged With: Aligned, Data Aire, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Nortek, Sabey Data Centers

Top 10 Data Center Stories for November 2021

By Rich Miller - December 1, 2021

CoreSite and CyrusOne announced acquisition deals on the same morning. (Images: Rich Miller, CyrusOne)

Merger mania swept the data center industry in November, and dominated industry news headlines. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in November 2021.

Tagged With: American Tower, BCS Data Center Operations, CoreSite, CyrusOne, DataBank, EdgeConneX, Flexential, Google, Meta

NVIDIA Unveils Tools to Build Virtual Worlds, Accelerate Data Center Networks

By Rich Miller - November 9, 2021

The NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform consists of the NVIDIA Quantum-2 switch, ConnectX-7 network adapter, and BlueField-3 DPU. (Image: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA sees a future filled with virtual worlds powered with augmented reality and connected by powerful networks. At GTC the company unveiled new tools for world-building, creating 400Gbps Infiniband networks, and making AI more accessible to data center customers.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, NVIDIA

Holograms in the Data Center: Cutting-Edge 3D Studio at Sabey Ashburn

By Rich Miller - June 18, 2021

The volumetric capture studio for Avatar Dimension inside the Sabey Data Centers campus in Ashburn, Virginia. (Image: Avatar Dimension)

A cutting-edge studio to create “digital human” holograms has launched inside the Ashburn campus for Sabey Data Centers, which is the lead investor in Avatar Dimension. The facility illustrates how data centers play a key role in the next-generation technologies.

Tagged With: Augmented Reality, Holograms, Sabey Data Centers

Microsoft Using Mixed Reality for Remote Audits of Azure Data Centers

By Rich Miller - April 28, 2021

A demonstration of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist on HoloLens 2 shows how remote team members and screens can be integrated into a mixed reality environment. (image: Microsoft)

Microsoft has begun using its HoloLens mixed reality technology to provide remote auditors a detailed look inside Microsoft Azure data centers, enabling compliance audits to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged With: Augmented Reality, Data Center Management, Microsoft

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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