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Shocking map reveals where power-hungry data centers could spark next public health disaster in the US
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Widespread Amazon cloud service outage disables Roombas, Ring doorbells, even Christmas lights
A large-scale outage on Amazon's cloud service this week wreaked widespread havoc on websites and software services. In addition to disabling Flickr, Adobe and the Washington Post's website, the outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday caused Roombas, Rokus, Ring doorbells and other smart household appliances to stop functioning. The issue, which impacted the US East-1 region, sent Twitter users into a tizzy. 'My f---ing doorbell doesn't work because AWS us-east-1 is having issues,' tweeted one disgruntled Ring user. 'I... can't vacuum... because us-east-1 is down,' complained Geoff Belknap, Chief Information Security Officer for LinkedIn.
Frontier Spotlight: The Top 10 Data Center Stories for August 2019
What is the impact of AI on data center cooling. Where's the latest data center market movement in the leading colo market of Northern Virginia? And is Silicon Valley data center market gaining momentum? A New Cloud Corridor Emerges South of Ashburn: A new cloud corridor is emerging in Northern Virginia, as data center developers lock down development parcels just west of Dulles Airport. Recent deals value data center sites at more than $1 million an acre.
Apple Plans Billion-Dollar Texas Campus in Wave of New Sites
Apple said it would add more than 1,000 employees apiece in San Diego, Seattle and Culver City, Calif., areas where it has been increasing staff to support its development of custom chips, machine-learning systems and Hollywood programming. It also plans hundreds of additional jobs in cities where it already has offices, including New York, Boston and Portland, Ore. The Austin campus would have the capacity to eventually accommodate 15,000 employees, Apple said, and was expected to make the company the city's largest private employer. The announcement came weeks after Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL -0.02% said they would expand in regions where they already have a presence.
AWS steps up AI focus
AWS has announced three new features for its artificial intelligence portfolio at re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas this week. Artificial intelligence is a development which could have wide ranging impacts on businesses throughout the world, and while many have been sceptical about its effectiveness the technology is starting to make waves. Google recently announced a few changes to the way its translation tool works with AI, IBM's Watson seems to be making progress constantly and Salesforce's Einstein is paying off with the company growing year-on-year. Considering the normalization of artificial intelligence and growing acceptance in the technology world, it wasn't going to be long before the public cloud leader started making itself known. And sure enough just in time for Christmas, the AWS team has put forward three new features for developers to play with.