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Net-zero by 2050 seems further away than ever. Google and Microsoft admitted their emissions are rising from artificial intelligence (AI)-related datacentre activity; while in July, Irish datacentres were reported as accounting for 21% of the country’s metered electricity consumption. What can datacentres do to conclusively turn the...
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The ease with which IT leaders can make use of powerful public cloud services for digitally enabled business initiatives and to propel their organisations in the artificial intelligence (AI) era means IT sustainability is rarely a top priority.
The latest data on cloud spending shows that a...
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is in the midst of an investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, after communications regulator Ofcom uncovered evidence of anti-competitive behaviour in the sector.The investigation is also looking into whether technical barriers and the charging of data egress fees...
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A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an OS that guarantees real-time applications a certain capability within a specified deadline. RTOSes are designed for critical systems and for devices like microcontrollers (MCUs) that are timing-specific. The processing time requirements of an RTOS are measured in milliseconds. Any...
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The Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI), which owns one of Europe’s largest genomic research datacentres, claims to have cut the energy consumption of its server farm by a third by revamping its power setup.
Working with datacentre digital transformation consultancy EfficiencyIT, the WSI wanted to increase the energy...
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Power, and efficient cooling, are essential to datacentre operations. This applies equally to a cloud hyperscaler, a commercial colocation facility, or an enterprise’s own datacentre. Without sufficient power, and without the ability to remove excess heat, servers cannot operate.
The need for power and low-cost space, along...
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A newly discovered series of four dangerous flaws in the Common Unix Printing System (Cups), which is used across virtually all GNU/Linux distros including Debian, Red Hat and SUSE, as well as Apple macOS and Google Chrome/Chromium among other things, is causing alarm bells to ring...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) stands accused of overstating the competitive threat posed to its business by enterprises repatriating workloads to on-premise datacentres.
In a recent submission to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure market, the public...
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The UK town of Blyth in Northumberland is set to become home to Europe’s biggest datacentre devoted to housing artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
The £10bn project is being funded by US investment firm Blackstone and facilitated by the UK government’s Office for Investment, and is forecast to...
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Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a complaint with the European Commission.
The internet search giant’s public cloud arm claims the practice harms customers...
