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Digital Realty

Digital Realty data centersDigital Realty is the largest landlord in the data center space, owning over 180 centers in 33 different markets. Their wholesale data center solutions have attracted big names in the tech industry, such as Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook. The company acquired DuPont Fabros Technology in 2017, further expanding its presence in the hyperscale market.

Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Web: https://www.digitalrealty.com/

Texas Data Centers Rely on Generators Amid Power Emergency

By Rich Miller - February 18, 2021 4 Comments

Many Texas data center operators are relying on emergency backup generators like these to keep customers online during the winter weather crisis. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Amid a statewide power emergency, major data centers in Texas are running on generator power to keep customers online and reduce load on the state’s struggling grid. Large operators say service is uninterrupted, but news reports indicate some data centers in the region are experiencing outages.

Tagged With: Austin, Dallas, Dallas Infomart, Digital Realty, San Antonio, Uptime, Wind

Digital Realty Plans New Data Center Project in Santa Clara

By Rich Miller - February 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

An illustration of the new four-story data center in Santa Clara planned by Digital Realty, which is partnering with developer Pelio & Associates. (Image: Digital Realty)

Digital Realty plans to build a four-story, 430,000-square-foot data center in Santa Clara, providing additional room for customer growth in the strategic Silicon Valley technology market.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley

Data Center Construction Surging Amid Supply Constraints in Top Markets

By Rich Miller - December 2, 2020 1 Comment

The QTS Data Centers Shellhorn DC-1 project in Ashburn. (Image: QTS)

Data center developers are scrambling to add capacity, as this year’s record leasing activity has consumed much of the available supply of server space. Several leading markets are seeing a boom in construction.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Ashburn, Data Center Construction, Digital Realty, Editors Choice 1, Northern Virginia, QTS Realty

COVID-19 Pandemic Drives Data Center Leasing to Record Heights

By Rich Miller - November 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Data center customers have leased more than 500 megawatts of capacity in 2020, an all-time record. With space scarce in key markets, cloud platforms and video services are pre-leasing data centers before they are built.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, Editors Choice 2, Leasing

Designing for Density: AI Brings Denser Racks into Multi-Tenant Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 2, 2020 2 Comments

Digital Realty's Building P in Ashburn is among the multi-tenant data center facilities housing different types of workloads. (Photo: Digital Realty)

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges for data center design, as high-density racks of GPUs require low-latency access to massive datasets, including some in the cloud.

Tagged With: Colovore, Digital Realty, GPUs, high density data centers, NVIDIA

Study: Data Gravity Will Guide the Global Digital Economy

By Rich Miller - September 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

A technician works inside the Digital Realty data center inside 60 Hudson Street in New York City, a key aggregation point for global data traffic. (Photo: Digital Realty)

Digital Realty believes the growth of the digital economy will be guided by the “data gravity” of massive aggregation points for data, which will be a magnet for applications and infrastructure. New research predicts where this will happen.

Tagged With: Data Center Site Selection, Data Gravity, Digital Realty

Roundtable Recap: The Road Ahead on Hyperscale, AI, Density, Automation

By Rich Miller - September 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

Our 20th Data Center Executive Roundtable showcases the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, with panelists from CoreSite, EdgeConneX, Digital Realty, Vertiv, Nortek Air Solutions and Infrastructure Masons.

Tagged With: CoreSite, Digital Realty, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Nortek, Vertiv

The Pandemic May Accelerate the Arrival of the Lights-Out Data Center

By Rich Miller - September 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

We conclude our DCF Executive Roundtable with a discussion of the future of data center automation, and how it is being shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Several panelists believe the “lights-out” data center is drawing closer.

Tagged With: automation, CoreSite, Digital Realty, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Nortek, Vertiv

Roundtable: The Network Matters, Now More Than Ever

By Rich Miller - September 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of information networks. Our DCF Executive Roundtable identifies the most important trends in data center connectivity and interconnection, and how have they been impacted by the pandemic

Tagged With: Digital Realty, EdgeConneX, Vertiv

Roundtable: New Generation of AI Hardware Raises the Bar on Cooling

By Rich Miller - September 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

As AI brings more powerful chips into the data center, our DCF Executive Roundtable weighs in on the present and future of rack density, and how it may influence data center equipment and design.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, CoreSite, Digital Realty, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Nortek, Vertiv

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Making Your Data Center Water Positive

Making Your Data Center Water Positive Cem Candir, CEO of Chemstar WATER, provides insights on new innovations in data center water treatment and gives details on how some hyperscalers are making their data centers water positive.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

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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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