For your weekend reading, here\u2019s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.<\/p>\n
With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers<\/a><\/strong> – Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers.<\/p>\n Should Data Centers Be Regulated as Utilities? Industry Experts Weigh In<\/a><\/strong> – Is the data center industry a candidate for regulation as a utility, as suggested last week by the New York Times? We reached out to experts who were familiar with both data centers and utilities to get their take.<\/p>\n The Robot-Driven Data Center of Tomorrow<\/a><\/strong> – Robotics are beginning to be integrated into data center management, creating the potential for a robot-driven, fully automated “lights out” data center environment. Bill Kleyman explores the possibilities.<\/p>\n Microsoft Will Back Xbox One With 300,000 Servers<\/a><\/strong> – With this week’s unveiling of the new Xbox One gaming system, Microsoft says it will beef up its Xbox Live platform with 300,000 servers, a huge jump from the 15,000 servers currently supporting the platform.<\/p>\n NSA Utah Data Center Facing Unexpected Energy Taxes<\/a><\/strong> – The National Security Agency (NSA) finds itself facing millions of dollars in taxes on the electricity usage in its Utah data center as a result of a new law passed by state legislators, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.<\/p>\n Stay current on Data Center Knowledge\u2019s data center news by subscribing to our\u00a0RSS feed<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0daily e-mail updates<\/a>, or by following us on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or join our\u00a0LinkedIn Group<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Data Center Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For your weekend reading, here\u2019s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers – Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}