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Career training opportunities and certifications offered in high school may not come soon enough for some students, posits Joshua Page, an electrician and author of the engaging new children’s book, "What Does Your Daddy Do?"

ARPA-E's Cooling Operations Optimized for Leaps in Energy, Reliability, and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems (COOLERCHIPS) funding program aims to develop highly efficient and reliable cooling systems that will enable a new class of efficient power-dense computational systems, data centers, and modular systems. 

The study dug into a market on the dark web that has sold items worth $17.3 million. Having analyzed data from more than 50 countries, independent researchers found many online credentials usually used to launch broad scams and hacks.

Digital Shadows found that the top 50 most common passwords are incredibly easy to guess and simply use the word “password” or a combination of easily remembered numbers. 

The research is based on an analysis of the data center footprint of 19 of the world’s major cloud and internet service firms, including the largest operators in SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, search, social networking, e-commerce, and gaming.

This report also identifies advice and strategies that officials can take to address weaknesses, resolve common issues, and contemplate how their organization stands compared with the industry at large.

ESR’s self-generated solar power energy from its logistics facilities is now recognized as a renewable power energy source that is fed into the power grid in Japan, providing an alternative option for companies and communities to validate their renewable energy contribution with Green Energy Certificates issued by Enerbank.

Located in Huailai County, Hebei Province, Huailai Data Centre is situated on a 3.3-hectare (ha) land plot that forms part of a larger data center campus spanning 29.7 ha. The campus is 65 km from Beijing Central and 70 km from Beijing Capital International Airport. 

On average, organizations experienced 15% more cybersecurity incidents in 2021 than in 2020. In addition, "material breaches"— defined as "those generating a large loss, compromising many records, or having a significant impact on business operations" — jumped 24.5%.  

Powering cooling infrastructure accounts for upward of 40% of a data center’s energy consumption. And, because 60% of the world’s electricity is still generated using fossil fuels, few operations are truly sustainable.