A week of billion-dollar financings, massive compute contracts, energy-first data center projects and new development rules offered a revealing look at where the AI infrastructure...
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Voices of the Industry

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Mark Ortiz, Head of Segment Solution Consulting at Schneider Electric, explains why an energy park should be treated as long-term infrastructure, not just a temporary bridge to...
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Vamsi Krishna Mokkapati, Technical Director of R&D at Nimbus Advanced Process Cooling, explains why design-point water consumption should not be the only important specification...
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Learning Resources

Learn how integrated cabinet infrastructure can help data centers address rising rack power densities through effective cooling, power management, environmental monitoring, and...
Oct. 1, 2026
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In this webchat with Johnson Controls experts, learn how to address key data center challenges including space and cooling capacity, through effective thermal Management strategies...
Nov. 5, 2026
A grocery logistics pioneer is using edge computing to power highly automated warehouses, helping robots move faster, reduce latency, and keep fulfillment operations running efficiently...
Sept. 30, 2026
AI is pushing data center infrastructure to new limits, with rack densities exceeding 100 kW and unprecedented demands on power, cooling, electrical systems, and physical infrastructure...
Sept. 30, 2026

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Podcast

Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
AI and high-performance computing are changing how data centers are designed and powered. Rack densities have more than doubled in recent years, and power demands continue to ...
Oct. 1, 2026
Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Rick Hombsch, Director of Engineering at MTE.
Sept. 24, 2026
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OIX board member Ilissa Miller joins the DCF Show to explain how communities can plan for AI data centers before projects arrive, why digital infrastructure belongs in long-range...
Sept. 22, 2026
Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier podcast, Matt Vincent Editor in Chief speaks with Steve Grundmeier, VP of Data Centers at Emerson.
Sept. 17, 2026

Videos

Join us for this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, as DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent checks in with Chris Osian, Product Manager at Starline, for an engaging conversation that...
Sept. 16, 2026
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As AI continues to reshape the data center landscape, many operators face the challenge of supporting new AI workloads without starting from scratch. In this Quick Chat video,...
Aug. 4, 2026

Hyperscale

Samsung/Mousterian, Seatrium, Mocean Energy and Atomarine are pursuing radically different offshore paths to AI capacity, from 30 MW modular barges to 200 MW concepts and wave...
Sept. 23, 2026
Data Centre West
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At Data Centre West in Calgary, hyperscalers, colocation operators, utilities and infrastructure developers focused less on why Alberta should become a major data center market...
Sept. 21, 2026
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AI data center growth is fueling consolidation across power infrastructure, construction, logistics, commissioning and operations as providers build more integrated data center...
Sept. 18, 2026
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The OCP Summit is the premier event uniting the most forward-thinking minds in open IT ecosystem development. The Summit presents a unique platform for the OCP Community from ...
Oct. 12, 2026 - Oct. 15, 2026

Colocation

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Date: October 25-28, 2026. Venue: JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country San Antonio, TX. Theme: The Intersection of AI & Traditional Data Centers
Oct. 25, 2026 - Oct. 29, 2026
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Corvex is using Lenovo Neptune liquid-to-air cooling to deploy high-density NVIDIA Blackwell systems inside existing air-cooled data centers, pairing faster infrastructure delivery...
Aug. 27, 2026
Brett Rutherford, Regional Sales Manager for PDU Cables, explains why uptime is no longer the sole measure of resiliency.
Aug. 3, 2026
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Inside Sabey’s Lower Manhattan data center, where interconnection, elevation, and emerging AI inference demand meet in one of New York’s most distinctive infrastructure assets...
April 15, 2026

Power

Amazon has committed to an initial $2.4 billion of Generac backup generators for its data centers, with purchases potentially reaching $8 billion as hyperscalers move to secure...
Sept. 24, 2026
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Matt Fredericks of Champion Fiberglass® explains why engineers and contractors should consider how a conduit material will perform from installation through the operating life...
Sept. 16, 2026
As reactor restarts move closer to reality, DCF examines whether advanced nuclear can become repeatable infrastructure for AI — and whether fuel, manufacturing, construction certainty...
Sept. 14, 2026
As utilities confront massive interconnection queues and increasingly speculative load forecasts, DCF asks what evidence should separate credible data center projects from “ghost...
Sept. 11, 2026

Cooling

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A tour of Ecolab’s CoolIT Systems manufacturing and R&D operations in Calgary shows what happens when direct liquid cooling moves from specialized engineering into industrial-...
Sept. 28, 2026
The race to build AI-ready data centers has fundamentally changed the physics of mission-critical design. As next-generation GPUs push power consumption past 250kW per rack, the...
Sept. 1, 2026
This explainer examines the major approaches to data center cooling—from chilled-water and evaporative systems to direct-to-chip liquid cooling—and the tradeoffs in energy, water...
July 20, 2026
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Recent industry announcements highlight a shift towards integrated, scalable cooling solutions driven by AI and HPC demands. Focus areas include chip-level thermal management,...
June 23, 2026

AI / Machine Learning

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Xylem's Steven Lucente explains why the intelligence of any data center cooling system begins with sound hydronic system design.
Sept. 25, 2026
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September moves by Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing frontier AI infrastructure across new markets, providers and financing structures, as gigawatt-scale compute commitments collide...
Sept. 25, 2026
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As data centers and AI accelerate demand for resources, operators face a new set of infrastructure challenges. Success depends on more than adding capacity. It requires a holistic...
Sept. 21, 2026
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At DCFTS 2026, JLL’s Sean Farney led developers and operators through the harder question behind the AI infrastructure boom: what actually separates announced gigawatts from energized...
Sept. 17, 2026

Press Releases

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Lenovo unveils new ThinkAgile systems and deployment services designed to help enterprises modernize their data centers, supporting AI, cloud-native, and traditional workloads...
Sept. 16, 2026
The acquisition brings Adapt-IP’s meter-level wireless asset-location technology into CargoSense’s agentic supply chain platform, targeting one of the less visible challenges ...
Sept. 15, 2026
From power and entitled land to community acceptance, workforce and adaptable design, the opening sessions of Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026 examined what it now takes...
Sept. 2, 2026
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Each month Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, posts some of the hottest data center career opportunities in the market. Here’s a look at some of the latest data ...
Sept. 2, 2026