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Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
| Time |
Event |
| 5:30p |
When Air No Longer Cuts It: Inside Google’s AI-Driven Shift to Liquid Cooling
The company’s latest AI processors drove its data center power density to unprecedented levels. | | 7:03p |
Blockchain, Once Seen as a Corporate Cure-All, Suffers Slowdown
Corporate America’s love affair with all things blockchain may be cooling
• Many software projects based on the technology will wind down this year, according to Forrester
• Some companies with blockchain pilot tests are scaling back ambitions and timelines, Bloomberg reported
• Forrester estimates that in 90 percent of cases, those experiments will not become part of company operations | | 7:58p |
The Best Security for Data Centers Is Based on Lack of Trust
It is critical that we remove assumption from the security mindset altogether. | | 10:10p |
Hot Chinese Data Center Stock GDS Under Siege From Short Seller
GDS Holdings saw its share price drop by more than half in less than one week
• The Chinese data center provider’s shares have been going down for weeks, but accelerated Tuesday, following a short thesis by an activist investment fund
• Blue Orca Capital, a short seller, said it was betting against GDS, accusing the company of misrepresenting its leasing results among other warnings
• GDS is in a 30-day quiet period before its earnings report in mid-August and cannot respond until then
• Issuing a thesis about a company during its quiet period is a common tactic employed by short sellers |
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