Sebastian Moss

6 days ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

Equinix's SG1 data center in Singapore saw two data halls go offline in a major outage. The 31 May incident lasted more than an hour, and caused widespread service issues across the country. "During scheduled maintenance at SG1 that required a reduction in power redundancy, we experienced equipment failure resulting in a power outage to two data halls in the data center," Equinix said in a statement.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Dell to supply the next supercomputer for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Featuring Nvidia chips, the supercomputer will be named Doudna after UC Berkeley scientist Jennifer Doudna, who co-invented CRISPR gene editing technology. Set to be deployed at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the supercomputer will be built with Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPUs and CPUs and is set to be built in 2026.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

Elon Musk reportedly sought to block OpenAI's involvement in a massive data center campus in the United Arab Emirates. Earlier this month, a 5GW data center campus was announced by US President Donald Trump, with the project slated for construction by Emirati AI company G42. A week later, OpenAI revealed that it would use a proportion of the campus for a local Stargate cluster, backed by Oracle and SoftBank. How much of the 1GW phase one, or the total 5GW, will be used by Stargate is unclear.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

Meta is partnering with Anduril to develop a range of augmented reality (AR) products for US soldiers. Anduril, in February, took over Microsoft's $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program to develop AR headsets for the military. As part of the deal, Microsoft became the "preferred hyperscale cloud" provider for IVAS workloads.

1 week ago | datacenterdynamics.com | Sebastian Moss

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and private company Space Solar have tested a space construction robot. In a government announcement regarding the 'AlbaTRUSS project,' UKAEA and Space Solar stated that it "opens the door to building vast infrastructure projects in orbit, such as data centers and energy farms."The test at UKAEA's test facilities at Culham Campus, Oxfordshire, used remotely operated dual-arm robotic manipulators to assemble a scaled structural truss bay.