Raising the temperature in the data center can save big money on power costs. But nudge the thermostat too high, and the energy savings can evaporate in a flurry of fan activity. That was the takeaway from several presentations at last week’s Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit (DCEE) in Sunnyvale, Calif. The case studies documented [...]

Data center users have lots of design choices. Turn-key space or powered shell? Raised floor or slab? Chilled water or air-side economization? Most users decide on a set of desired design characteristics and search for data centers or providers that can meet all their criteria. In its new Chicago data center project, developer Ascent Corp. [...]

Rackspace reports that parts of its Dallas data center lost power early today during testing of power distribution units (PDUs) during scheduled maintenance. This resulted in downtime for sites hosted on SliceHost and The Rackspace Cloud, including the leading tech blog TechCrunch, which ensured that the outage was widely noted on blogs and Twitter. The [...]