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nVent's Jason Matteson reveals the results of nVent's liquid cooling test that included a mixed-metal combination the industry has spent a decade avoiding.
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Tom Carroll of ebm-papst explains the importance of building cooling systems that are resilient and can support data center growth over the long term.
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Learning Resources

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Training made data centers bigger, but inference is making them vastly more complex. Discover why real-time DCIM is now mission-critical to manage the power, cooling, and uptime...
Oct. 21, 2026
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This webinar brings together RoviSys, Inductive Automation, and Advantech to explore a practical approach to bridging physical infrastructure with modern Data Center Infrastructure...
Nov. 12, 2026
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Join Legrand's experts for a fireside chat exploring the technologies enabling next-generation network architectures, including the evolution of Very Small Form Factor (VSFF) ...
Oct. 29, 2026
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Data center sustainability is becoming a more complex engineering challenge as AI increases power density and changes the requirements for thermal management. Traditional efficiency...
Oct. 13, 2026

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Podcast

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In this podcast, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief at DCF, and Brooke Zalud, Market Segment Manager at Ziehl-Abegg, discuss how air and liquid cooling work together to improve thermal...
Oct. 22, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
The conversation around data center power has focused on replacing diesel. But for many hyperscalers and developers, modern standby diesel remains a practical solution amid grid...
Oct. 15, 2026
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As synchronized GPU workloads create faster and more volatile power swings, Musashi Energy Solutions President Americas Frank DeLattre says data centers may need to rethink where...
Oct. 6, 2026
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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

Videos

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In this QuickChat, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief at DCF, and Joel Wynn, VP of Data Center Solutions Sales at Southwire, explore the growing importance of supply chain transparency...
Oct. 19, 2026
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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

Hyperscale

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From utility-rate reforms and rising infrastructure costs to local zoning battles and contested development rights, Virginia is rewriting the terms of data center growth—shifting...
Oct. 14, 2026
At the Open Compute Project Global Summit, AMD, Meta, Arm, Broadcom and NVIDIA outlined a sweeping transformation of AI infrastructure, from CPU-intensive agentic computing and...
Oct. 13, 2026
From gigawatt-scale AI campuses in Texas and Canada to emerging projects across the U.S. and Mexico, the latest Land & Expand tracks North America's expanding data center development...
Oct. 12, 2026
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

Colocation

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Crane, rigging, and heavy-haul work may sit within a single trade scope, according to ProLift Rigging's Bill Tierney, but on complex data center projects, the work itself can ...
Oct. 9, 2026
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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
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Brett Rutherford, Regional Sales Manager for PDU Cables, explains why uptime is no longer the sole measure of resiliency.
Aug. 3, 2026

Power

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The AI-driven evolution of data centers is pushing power requirements past the physical limits of traditional electrical engineering. With high-density clusters forcing rack power...
Oct. 26, 2026
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Hitachi Energy's Susan McLeod explains how power conversion solutions (PCS) can turn volatile AI loads, constrained grid connections and on-site energy assets into a coordinated...
Oct. 19, 2026
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For the last decade, the data center industry has been a quiet engine of the digital economy, but today, the explosive rise of AI is exacerbating power sourcing issues that must...
Oct. 12, 2026
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As grid bottlenecks persist and AI-driven load dynamics challenge conventional electrical designs, Rehlko's Nicole Dierksheide explains why backup generation is increasingly considered...
Oct. 7, 2026

Cooling

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Liquid cooling is not a single design choice. It is a family of approaches that must be aligned to workload requirements, facility constraints, service models, and long-term growth...
Oct. 23, 2026
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AI-era cooling is not just about moving more air. It is about building a balanced thermal strategy that supports density, reliability, and long-term scalability.
Oct. 16, 2026
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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
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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

AI / Machine Learning

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Experts from the Research Institute at Midea Building Technologies, explain how a dual-rotor compressor architecture addresses the efficiency and continuity challenges that gigawatt...
Oct. 21, 2026
Introducing DCF Global: From Spain's permitting revolution and China's energy-rich computing hubs to India's investment surge, Latin America's industrial policies, and Southeast...
Oct. 9, 2026
NVIDIA's new qualification program establishes technical requirements for battery energy storage and liquid cooling systems, bringing Hitachi Energy, Tesla, LG, Vertiv and LiquidStack...
Oct. 8, 2026
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...
Oct. 5, 2026

Press Releases

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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 ...
Oct. 5, 2026
For years, the data center industry’s biggest constraints were largely physical, centered on power, transmission, land, water, equipment and labor. As the AI infrastructure...
Oct. 2, 2026
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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