New data centres in Ireland could need additional energy supply that is almost equal to the peak electricity demand for the entire country. The scale of demand from “prospective” data centres in the ...

Linear pluggable optics (LPO) is garnering more attention as a way to quickly and efficiently move data in and out of server racks, but a lack of standards for connecting the optical modules is ...

If investment in data centres is about to slow, nobody told Mark Zuckerberg. On January 29th, during an earnings call, Meta’s boss boasted that the social-media giant had plans to build an ...

Data centres are the backbone of the internet and of much modern IT. They store, process, send and receive the data we produce and use. Each new development in IT – such as the growth of social media, ...

Data centres will be required to meet at least 80% of their annual energy demand with additional renewable electricity projects generating in the Republic of Ireland. The Commission for Regulation of ...

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LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The global boom in artificial intelligence has unleashed a giant wave of data centre construction. Developers are committing vast sums of capital to build ...

THIS SPRING McKinsey made what seemed to be an extraordinarily bullish forecast of capital spending on the chips, data centres and energy to produce artificial intelligence (AI): $5.2trn worldwide in ...

SYDNEY, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Authorities in Sydney approved construction of data centres without requiring measurable plans to cut water use, raising concerns the sector's rapid growth will leave ...

A data centre is a highly secure physical facility where organisations run their mission-critical computing, storage, and networking infrastructure. Modern data centres support compute, storage ...