Category: data centre
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AI’s Energy Myth: Why Data Centres Aren’t About to Break the Grid
The article critiques the exaggerated claims about the energy consumption of AI-driven data centres, arguing that predictions often lack grounding in reality. Historical trends show significant efficiency gains in data centres, and current forecasts suggest limited energy use from AI. It advocates for smart regulation and integrating renewable energy, cautioning against misallocated capital based on…
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CIX on Intruders.tv
We held our Open Day in CIX a couple of weeks back. We invited local businesses to come in and have a look at the data centre infrastructure before we closed up all the ducts and hazardous areas. We also invited Intruders.tv to come along and film the event. They did and they published the…
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CIX open day
Cork Internet eXchange (aka CIX) are having an Open Day on the morning of November 29th at 10am. This will be your final opportunity to have a gander around the innards of a data centre in the making. After the 29th, ducts will be closed and off-limits areas will be off-limits! If you are interested…
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US Data Center chillers not backed up by diesel generators?
Rackspace are a high-profile data centre in the US. They had a couple of outages in the last few days which have badly damaged their reputation. The main outage, according to Rackspace, happened when: at approximately 6:30 PM CST Monday, a vehicle struck and brought down the transformer feeding power to the DFW data center.…
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Phew!
These next few weeks and months are manic busy. I am giving a Keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on November 7th. I am on a Web 2.0 panel at TechEd in Barcelona on November 8th I am chair of the organising committee of this year’s amazing it@cork conference on November 28th I…
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Views from the CIX mast
We are erecting a 24 metre mast outside our CIX data centre in Cork. I was curious to know what the visibility would be like for our mast’s customers (we will be renting out space on the mast) so yesterday when we had a cherry picker onsite I had the driver lift me 10 metres…