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Iowa and North Carolina are emerging as affordable markets for data center development, according to The Boyd Company of Princeton, N.J., which has issued its 2008 ranking of the most affordable sites to operate a data center in the U.S. The new data updates an initial data center affordability… [Read More]

Facebook has arranged new financing to buy $100 million worth of servers, according to Business Week, which says the social networking site struck a “venture lending” deal with TriplePoint Capital, a Menlo Park (Calif.)-based company that specializes in lending money to startups. The $100 million… [Read More]

BT is in talks to sell its British data centers to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for £1.5 billion (about $2.9 billion), according to a report in the Sunday Times in the UK. An excerpt:The deal, which is still being worked on but should be signed in the next few weeks, will lead to BT transferring 400 staff… [Read more]

Data center demand is likely to surge in the second half of 2008, as U.S. enterprise companies indicate they will be increasing both the number and size of their data center projects in the next 12 months, according to new research by Digital Realty Trust. The research findings, coming on the heels… [Read More]

The server thefts are getting out of hand. The latest incident didn’t involve a data center, but involved an HSBC server in Hong Kong that contained transaction records for 159,000 customer accounts. The bank said it had lost track of the server during renovation work at a Kwun Tong district branch… [Read More]

Eaton’s Power Xpert Server Solution isn’t going to win any beauty contests. In fact, the company is marketing it as the “Ugliest Server You’ll Ever Buy.” The product is clearly geared for folks who think power monitoring is sexy.

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Microsoft will be able to pack up to 300,000 servers into the data center "container farm" it is building on the first floor of its new Chicago data center. By packing the 40-foot shipping containers with data center equipment, Microsoft will be able to manage extraordinarily dense server... Read more at DataCenterKnowledge

In a stunning case of reverse sticker shock, Bear Stearns has been sold to J.P. Morgan for $270 million, or just $2 a share. Bear's stock (BSC) had closed at $30 Friday and $57 Thursday. Shortly after the announcement, the Federal Reserve cut its discount rate by a quarter-point to 3.25 percent,...

Google is staffing up to acquire existing colocation space and perhaps even entire data centers. This is an interesting development, since the company already has four massive data center construction projects underway. There are several possible explanations for this: Google (GOOG) is growing...

This is part two of a five-day series examining supply and demand in the data center market, and how it may be affected by the credit crunch and economic slowdown. See the introduction and part one for more. "Significant competitive advantage." That was the key phrase Digital Realty Trust (DLR)...