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Data Storage Innovation: Power, Water, and Space

Pure Storage

To mitigate the possibility of blackouts, Ireland’s state-owned electric utility has placed a moratorium on new data center construction, with other countries looking to follow suit. This percentage is expected to increase to 27% by 2030 , making data centers Ireland’s largest energy consumer. Power and Water. Read the full story.

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33 Data Protection Predictions from 19 Experts for 2024

Solutions Review

At the same time, shifts to distributed cloud architectures, enabling workloads to move to the edge to the core and back will elevate the need to make private clouds more than just basic virtualized infrastructure.” Data storage, projected to account for 14 percent of the global carbon footprint by 2040, will be a key focus area.