Sebastian Moss

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

Thousands more have left the US Department of Energy, after employees were offered a second chance to take financial incentives to leave their jobs. Reuters reports that more than 2,600 workers have left, with more potentially taking the offer in the days to come. Staffers over the age of 40 get an additional 45-day period to consider the offer. 1,217 staffers took a January offer to leave, while around 2,000 employees left after the DOE fired probationary employees in February.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

Mihika Shivkumar has joined OpenAI as a technical program manager for physical infrastructure. There, she will work on Project Stargate, the company's massive data center buildout that could cost as much as $500 billion. Shivkumar joins from Google, where she was the technical program manager for data center infrastructure design.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

Critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has launched a modular prefabricated overhead infrastructure system known as Vertiv SmartRun. The company claims that the system can be deployed 85 percent faster on-site than traditional stick-build methods, allowing for installations greater than 1MW per day with just a single crew - not including offsite manufacturing times.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

Nautilus Data Technologies has canceled its planned 60MW data center in Millinocket, Maine. The project was first announced in 2021, and originally set to launch by the end of 2022. The $300 million data center was planned for the site of what was once the world's largest paper mill, and was set to use power and water from a nearby hydroelectric dam.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

A empresa de resfriamento a laser Maxwell Labs firmou um acordo de pesquisa com o Sandia National Labs e a Universidade do Novo México (UNM). As três entidades envolvidas pretendem desenvolver um sistema de resfriamento fotônico à base de laser para processadores de alta densidade usados em data centers. A Maxwell Labs está desenvolvendo uma placa fria fotônica projetada para substituir ou complementar os sistemas de resfriamento tradicionais, que utilizam ar ou água.