Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of January 23rd

For your weekend reading, we present a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

Vantage CEO: Wholesale Data Center Market Evolving - Henry Ford is famous for saying, “People can have the Model T in any color, so long as it’s black.” Vantage Data Centers CEO Sureel Choksi says in many ways, the wholesale data center industry has been of the same mindset, but that’s changing.

Digital Realty to Offer Tenants Free Renewable Energy Credits - Digital Realty said it will give every customer that signs a new lease in any of its facilities around the world Renewable Energy Credits to apply to the energy their data center space consumes for the first year of their lease.

For Red Hat OpenStack is Way to Move Beyond Core Linux Business - Red Hat‘s OpenStack focus continues to move the company beyond its popular distribution of the Linux operating system, and investors are starting to notice.

Report: Google Data Center Spend Spurs Major Fund to Cut Stake in Giant - Data center construction and operations are some of the largest operating costs Google has. As the company has grown, so has the amount of money it has spent on its infrastructure.

Bitcoin Gets Liquid: BitFury Buys Immersion Cooling Specialist - One of Bitcoin’s biggest players is turning to immersion cooling to address the shifting economics of cryptocurrency mining.

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