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Mark Ballard

Mark Ballard is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about technology and related business, law, and public affairs since 1993. Details of his work can be found here.

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Energy & Power Supply

Three-quarters of Ireland's Data Center Power Reserves Left Unused (Updated)Three-quarters of Ireland's Data Center Power Reserves Left Unused (Updated)

Jun 30, 2022

8 Min Read

Meta data center - 3D render

Scorned Meta Data Center in Holland Met All Environmental Standards Scorned Meta Data Center in Holland Met All Environmental Standards

Apr 15, 2022

6 Min Read

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Bomb damage at 26 Mryonosytska Street, Kharkiv

Battle Intensifies To Keep Ukraine Online

Battle Intensifies To Keep Ukraine Online

Facebook data center

Hyperscale Data Centers Under Fire in Holland

Hyperscale Data Centers Under Fire in Holland

Amsterdam subway central station. December 2020

Amsterdam Officials Challenged as They Mull Limits On Data Centers

Amsterdam Officials Challenged as They Mull Limits On Data Centers

Ij lake, Amsterdam, 2013

Amsterdam’s Next Data Center Clusters Will Be Built Out of Town

Amsterdam’s Next Data Center Clusters Will Be Built Out of Town

A woman passes by a Google themed barrier in front of a Google data center in Fredericia, Denmark (November 2020)

Europe Edges Closer to Green Data Center Laws

Europe Edges Closer to Green Data Center Laws

Osaka, 2015

Data Center Investors Meet Japan’s Corporate Protectionism

Data Center Investors Meet Japan’s Corporate Protectionism

Data Center Entrepreneurs Dragged into Corporate Power Struggle

Data Center Entrepreneurs Dragged into Corporate Power Struggle

Data Center Entrepreneurs Dragged into Corporate Power Struggle

A Volkswagen plant in Zwickau, Germany

Industry-Tailored Clouds Give Platforms More Marketplaces They Can Run

Industry-Tailored Clouds Give Platforms More Marketplaces They Can Run

Amid Pandemic, UK Data Center Operators Face Reliability Regulation

Amid Pandemic, UK Data Center Operators Face Reliability Regulation

Amid Pandemic, UK Data Center Operators Face Reliability Regulation

Interxion's MRS3 data center under construction in Marseille

KKR’s Big Ambition to Build Digital Infrastructure for the Future

KKR’s Big Ambition to Build Digital Infrastructure for the Future

The Etix campus in Offenbach, Germany, now part of the Vantage portfolio

US Data Center Operators Have Financing Advantages Over EU Counterparts

US Data Center Operators Have Financing Advantages Over EU Counterparts

The Etix campus in Offenbach, Germany, now part of the Vantage portfolio

Switches & Routers

And Then There Was One: How Vantage Outpaced NGD

And Then There Was One: How Vantage Outpaced NGD

Blade server install

UK Emergency Planners' Data Center Risk Info Gathering Is Slow Going

UK Emergency Planners' Data Center Risk Info Gathering Is Slow Going

UK Data Center Operators Say Prolonged Lockdown Would Risk Outages

UK Data Center Operators Say Prolonged Lockdown Would Risk Outages

UK Data Center Operators Say Prolonged Lockdown Would Risk Outages

Global Switch 2 data center in London's Canary Wharf (2009)

UK Data Centers Plead for Critical Status for Contractors as Coronavirus Takes Hold

UK Data Centers Plead for Critical Status for Contractors as Coronavirus Takes Hold

Two young men play the mobile AR game Pokemon Go on the campus grounds of the University of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2016.

Data Center Investors Expect to Cash in on Africa’s Population Boom

Data Center Investors Expect to Cash in on Africa’s Population Boom

EU Industry Body Wants Data Centers to Become Part of the Energy Grid

Energy & Power Supply

EU Industry Body Wants Data Centers to Become Part of the Energy Grid

EU Industry Body Wants Data Centers to Become Part of the Energy Grid

Equipment at Equinix's PA8 data center in Paris during a french economy minister (unseen) visit in 2019

Data Center Operators Vie for Leverage as Europe Eyes Efficiency Rules

Data Center Operators Vie for Leverage as Europe Eyes Efficiency Rules

Investors Prepare the Ground for Data Center Growth in East Africa

Investors Prepare the Ground for Data Center Growth in East Africa

Investors Prepare the Ground for Data Center Growth in East Africa

Interxion's MRS3 data center under construction in Marseille

Digital Realty Sweetens Takeover Deal for Frigid Interxion Shareholders

Digital Realty Sweetens Takeover Deal for Frigid Interxion Shareholders

Chinese State-Backed Data Center Builder Claims Record Investment, Led by Morgan Stanley

Chinese State-Backed Data Center Builder Claims Record Investment, Led by Morgan Stanley

Chinese State-Backed Data Center Builder Claims Record Investment, Led by Morgan Stanley

Inside a former CenturyLink data center

Cyxtera Chief Says Weak Colocation Sales Didn't Cause Company Split

Cyxtera Chief Says Weak Colocation Sales Didn't Cause Company Split

Interxion's MRS3 data center under construction in Marseille

Large Interxion Shareholders Are Said to Be Unhappy With the Digital Realty Deal

Large Interxion Shareholders Are Said to Be Unhappy With the Digital Realty Deal

Fabrice Coquio, Interxion managing director, France, showing network cross-connects in one of the company's data centers in Marseille.

Eager Eyes on Interxion for European Data Center Buyout

Eager Eyes on Interxion for European Data Center Buyout

Amsterdam skyline, 2014

Why Amsterdam Halted Data Center Construction

Why Amsterdam Halted Data Center Construction

Stock Exchange of Hong Kong offices in the Central district of Hong Kong

Data Center Firm Global Switch Shelves IPO as Economy Stutters

Data Center Firm Global Switch Shelves IPO as Economy Stutters

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