Peter Judge

Oct 2, 2024 | datacenterdynamics.com | Matthew Gooding |Peter Judge

LG Chem says it has developed a material capable of suppressing the dangerous process of thermal runway in malfunctioning lithium-ion batteries. The Korean conglomerate’s platform technology R&D team says the safety reinforced lawyer (SRL) material has been analyzed by researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea, with safety verification carried out by LG Energy Solution.

Sep 13, 2024 | datacenterdynamics.com | Matthew Gooding |Peter Judge

Digital infrastructure provider Moji says it has become the first French data center operator to install backup generators powered by natural gas. The company, which offers dark fiber access and cloud services to its clients, has worked with generator vendor Pramac and gas provider GRDF to install a 300kVA Pramac generator at its data center in Nanterre, a suburb in the west of Paris.

Jul 15, 2024 | datacenterdynamics.com | Matthew Gooding |Peter Judge

Amazon is “distorting the truth” about how many of its data centers are powered by renewable energy, according to a group of the company’s employees. Last week the company said in its ESG report that its operations are run entirely on renewable sources of power, something it had achieved seven years ahead of schedule. However, pressure group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) said its research shows that just 22 percent of power used by the company's data centers is from renewables.

Jan 5, 2024 | datacenterdynamics.com | Graeme Burton |Peter Judge

Liquid cooling has been around for decades, and immersion cooling since the mid-2000s or so. But now, with CPU’s running at ever-greater wattages and high-powered GPUs in such demand that chip makers can barely keep up, an inflection point has been reached, believes Josh Claman, CEO at two-phase immersion cooling specialist, Accelsius.

Dec 16, 2023 | datacenterdynamics.com | Graeme Burton |Peter Judge

For years, artificial intelligence was the future, and it looked like that future would never arrive. But when ChatGPTv4 was released earlier this year it seemed as if, finally, AI had at last reached the mainstream. On the one hand, ChatGPT’s ability to provide intelligent-looking answers to a wide range of questions, at the very least, elevated it well above the intelligence of the average Facebook or Twitter user.