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Edge Centers, the Australia-based provider of modular, sustainable edge data centres, is expanding its footprint in the U.S. The company announced on its LinkedIn page that construction has begun on EC101, a data centre located at the AON Centre in Los Angeles, California.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge relating to the Section 230 provision in the 1996 Communications Decency Act that grants comprehensive legal protection to social media firms around user-generated content. Section 230 was created before the rise of social media firms and was intended to protect freedom of speech.

A Tesla employee tweeted that the company now has the world’s 7th largest supercomputer, measured by GPU count. This achievement was the result of a recent upgrade during which Tesla added 1600 additional Nvidia A-100 GPUs. This tweet, from Tim Zanan (Engineering Manager at Tesla), noted that gave the GPU totals for the upgrade, and… Read More

December 2018 McAfee Labs threat report shows sharp increase in malware targeting IoT devices, which can then be used for cryptomining exploits IoT malware threats have increased from just over 5,000 in Q4 2016 to over 45,000 incidents detected in Q3 2018. IoT threats may target any kind of connected hardware including routers, smart devices,… Read More

RagingWire has announced it has purchased land and begun development on a new data centre in Santa Clara, California The facility, known as Silicon Valley 1 (SV1) will include 16 MW of power and span 160,000 square feet in total, with 64,000 square feet of data floor space including customizable data vaults, designed for hyperscale cloud companies… Read More