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How Climate Change Will Kill Your Internet
From melting ice caps to having to ration the available power supply, here’s why your internet access may be endangered with global warming.
Watch Fish Swim By Petabytes of Data at Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center
It’s pretty surreal to watch all these fish congregate around the data center like it’s an artificial reef.
Microsoft Just Put a Data Center on the Bottom of the Ocean
The shipping container-sized data center holds 864 servers and is completely powered by renewable energy.
A Loud Sound Just Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours
Dozens of hard drives were knocked down during a fire drill that involved inert gas deployment.
Bitcoin Mining in an Abandoned Iowa Grocery Store
Could this Midwestern data center become the largest Bitcoin mine in the world?
Police Could Charge a Data Center in the Largest Child Porn Bust Ever
It’s an “innovative” way to fight file sharers, says one investigator, but will depend on whether employees knew the activity was taking place.
What the 'Claustrophobic Atmosphere' at the Heart of a Data Center Sounds Like
Creeping and cyclical, pricked here and there with machine chatter, the din registers its own kind of mysterious silence.
The NSA Fast-Tracked Its Gigantic New Data Center and Now It's Melting
Is it poetic justice that the home of the government's Orwellian online surveillance is burning down?
When This Amazon Data Center Sneezed, Instagram, Vine, and Others Got Sick
How could such disparate services all get hit at once? A preemptive strike from the Syrian Electronic Army? Anonymous putting its foot (their feet?) down to end brunch-related photography?
Sears Is Converting Its Defunct Department Stores Into Data Centers
Is this the warped future of historical preservation?