How did Iberian operators fare in the great power cut?
Data center operators keep their lights on, but could telco companies have done better during in Spain's worst ever power cut?
Long Reads - Africa (EN)
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Diversity of power - the biggest data center energy stories of 2024
The most notable deals and trends across data center power procurement
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Helios: Colocation, colocation, colocation
After an M&A spree in the last few years, Africa-focused towerco Helios is looking to add more tenants
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Houthi crisis in Red Sea spurs interest in alternative fiber routes
Eyes have long been focused on deploying fiber cable routes to avoid Egypt, but now attentions are turning to bypassing Yemen, too
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D-RECs: Power investments that wire up the developing world
Can you reach net-zero while helping to provide clean power where the world needs it most? We kick the tires on a new kind of REC
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NTT Global Data Centers takes the main stage
Move over RagingWire, NTT is here
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Africa’s 5G challenge
A handful of African countries have switched to 5G services, but how successful are the rollouts?
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Understanding Africa's data center challenge
As investors finally build data centers for Africa’s emerging technical generation, will the continent get the infrastructure it needs?
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DCD Magazine out now: Escaping Ukraine
How the industry helped one local cloud provider in a time of crisis
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Processing the universe
Exploring the computing and networking requirements of the Square Kilometer Array
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Flood the world with fiber
If we can lower the cost to deploy fiber, we could connect the planet
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The great disconnect
Governments are shutting down the Internet, using digital sieges to quell unrest, and threatening the Balkanization of the web
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Cloudflare CEO talks outage: "This was entirely our problem, this was a mistake which we made"
Not an external attack. Not related to last week's BGP problems. Not going to happen again?
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Preparing for disaster: Sunday Opadijo, DCD 2018 award winner
Every year as part of the DCD Awards, we celebrate the individual achievements of exceptional data center managers, people who go above and beyond the call of duty, who sacrifice their time, effort and emotional well-being on the altar of uptime.
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Bringing West Africa online, one step at a time
MainOne’s founding mission was to bring Internet access to Nigeria. While some of its efforts have paid off, battles must still be waged on many fronts
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Europe gets Energy Smart
Thanks to its demographics, its energy grids, and its politics, Europe is getting ahead on energy efficiency
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Feeling the heat
Upgrading a data center to get a lower PUE is a challenge, but in the sub-tropical South African climate, it is a serious achievement
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La prise de Marseille: Interxion and France’s new interconnectivity hub
The company will soon launch the first phase of its second data center in the coastal city, whilst building out the following phases and planning a third, much larger facility
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AWS does not rest on its laurels
What re:Invent conference in Las Vegas told us about the future direction of the company
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UK think tank warns of threats to submarine cables
Terrorists and Russia are highlighted as risks to international connectivity
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The machine itself: The state of AI in the data center
As data centers become living brains, is the role of the human set to be diminished?
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Be prepared for trouble
With extreme weather comes associated risks. Don’t let complacency ruin your data center
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DCD>Zettastructure: Finding energy solutions when faced with an antiquated grid
Relocating to the Nordics, installing emergency gas generators, or sitting tight and waiting for distribution network operators to build the infrastructure?
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Vote for the world's most beautiful data center
It’s up to you to choose the best looking data center in the world
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Oracle promises apps-first cloud to beat AWS
After Ellison’s bluster, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd promised a cloud based on long-term applications development
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Exploring mission critical IT on the factory floor
We made something different, let us know what you think
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A wrinkle in time
The Internet has ways to keep time, but they may not be good enough for a new breed of applications and regulations
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Top 10 extreme data centers
From frontline duty on the battlefield to the far reaches of space, we chart the most extreme data centers