Top 10 Data Center Stories for September 2020

Oct. 1, 2020
Big companies doing big things. That was the theme for last month’s reader favorites at Data Center Frontier. Here are the 10 most popular stories on DCF in September 2020, in order of article views.

Big companies doing big things. That was the theme for September at Data Center Frontier. Reader favorites for the month  included Google going even greener, Microsoft making servers last longer (by deploying them underwater), Facebook building bigger than ever, Amazon refining its edge strategy, and Equinix repositioning its brand.

Not to mention billion-dollar funding announcements from Aligned and GI Partners, our Executive Roundtable, and a late-month M&A deal.

Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in September 2020, in order of article views:

In September, Data Center Frontier’s guest column series, Voices of the Industry, featured insight from leaders at DCi Data Center Infrastructures,  wtec, ProLift Rigging, DataBankServer Technology, QTS Data Centers, CoreSite and Stream Data Centers. Here are the Voices columns that were most popular with DCF readers last month:

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About the Author

Rich Miller

I write about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them. I founded Data Center Knowledge, the data center industry's leading news site. Now I'm exploring the future of cloud computing at Data Center Frontier.

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