Continuing with their spring (summer?) cleaning, the government has elected to shut down 800 of their vast collection of 2000 data centres across the country over the next four years. Officials expect the pruning to save us billions.
For reasons unknown, the FBI raided a data centre and seized several servers, causing known online brands, including Pinboard and those in the Curbed network, to go offline.
Computers get hot. Google data centres? They’ve got lots of them. Their new centre in Hamina, Finland, was built in an old paper mill with a network of granite tunnels underneath them. Tunnels filled with cold sea water Google could pump into their centre to rob the computers of heat before Google sent the water back from where it came from, mixed with more cold water so it wouldn’t affect wildlife. This is an inspiring design decision.
We’re still assuming Apple’s gargantuan North Carolina data centre is for some kind of cloud magic, but now we might know who the wizard is charge could be: newly hired data-master Kevin Timmons, stolen from Microsoft. [All Things D]
That massive data centre Apple’s spent the last few years building in North Carolina? As suspected, it’s there to support iTunes, the company confirmed today. That’s a whole lot of storage to be used for anything other than a cloud-based iTunes.
When Apple asks to buy your farm, there’s your chance to aim high. High is what the Fulbrights did when Apple fancied their acre of land adjacent to their iTunes data centre in North Carolina.
