Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: September 18, 2020

Nvidia wants to build a data center empire with Arm; Microsoft pulls out its underwater data center; TikTok may become an Oracle Cloud workload; and more.

Data Center Knowledge

September 18, 2020

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Nvidia Founder, President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang displays Nvidia's Xavier AI car supercomputer at CES 2017 at The Venetian Las Vegas in January 2017.
Nvidia Founder, President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang displays Nvidia's Xavier AI car supercomputer at CES 2017 at The Venetian Las Vegas in January 2017.Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Nvidia Wants to ‘Turn Arm into a World-Class Data Center CPU’ - If the record $40 billion acquisition is approved, Jensen Huang will have all he needs to build a new data center empire.

Microsoft Finds Underwater Data Centers Practical - Its researchers have pulled their second Project Natick experimental data center out of the ocean in Scotland.

TikTok, Coming to an Oracle Cloud Data Center Near You (Potentially) - Making TikTok switch to Oracle as its US cloud provider would be less like US and more like China.

VMware to Unleash Kubernetes-Native vSphere on Data Centers in October - The company has also announced four flavors of Tanzu and updated Cloud Foundation and vSAN.

Aligned Secures $1B in ‘Sustainability-Linked’ Debt to Build Data Centers - The developer will get a lower interest rate on the borrowed capital if it meets certain sustainability goals.

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