Data Center Frontier

Executive Roundtable: How New Data Center Designs Will Meet Shifting Industry Paradigms

March 18, 2024
In the first installment of our Q1 Executive Roundtable, we ask five data center industry leaders about ways the unprecedented growth in digital infrastructure for AI and the ...

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Diving Into the Depths of Procurement & Sourcing

Robert Moffit, president of BluePrint Supply Chain, explores the complexities of industrial construction procurement and sourcing, revealing often-overlooked questions.
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What the Cloud Revolution Tells Us About Data Center Power Challenges

March 15, 2024
The data center industry is under fire for its energy use amid surging demand for AI capacity. There are lessons available from the sector’s response to similar concerns about...
Prologis

Prologis Launches $25B Dedicated Data Center Arm Led by Compass Co-founder Chris Curtis

March 15, 2024
Warehouse and logistics leader Prologis comes by its strategic pivot into the hyperscale and cloud development space honestly, benefiting from its substantial collaboration in...
Equinix - Executive Appointments
Equinix - Executive Appointments
Equinix - Executive Appointments
Equinix - Executive Appointments
Equinix - Executive Appointments

Equinix Imports New Executive Leadership from Ranks of Cloud Data Center Giants, Women

March 13, 2024
Seeing one of the internet age's formative and still most-relevant colocation and interconnection data center operators making a habit of appointing seasoned female leaders to...
Sabey Data Centers

DCF Tours: Sabey Data Centers' SDC Ashburn, Data Center Alley, Virginia

March 12, 2024
Located in the heart of Loudoun County, SDC Ashburn encompasses a 38-acre campus in the world’s densest connectivity corridor, commonly referred to as Data Center Alley.

Iceotope

Immersion Cooling Is Ready for its Big Moment in the Data Center

Feb. 29, 2024
With liquid cooling moving to center stage, immersion cooling no longer seems like a niche player.
JLL
JLL - North American Data Center Report
JLL - North American Data Center Report
JLL - North American Data Center Report
JLL - North American Data Center Report
JLL - North American Data Center Report

Reports: Quest for Power, Land Banking, Submarket Migration Defines Current Data Center Trends

Feb. 29, 2024
Unpacking comparative highlights from JLL's just-released "North America Data Center Report | H2 2023" and DatacenterHawk's "4Q 2023 Data Center Market Recap."

Marriott

Microgrid Knowledge Conference Addresses Data Centers, Mission-Critical Power Resiliency

March 11, 2024
The crossroads of sustainability and power resiliency will be front and center at the upcoming Microgrid 2024 conference, to be held April 22-24 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Understanding PFAS Concerns for Two-Phase Cooling of Data Centers

Feb. 9, 2024
Not all PFAS are “forever” chemicals: Unraveling the complexity.

Courtesy of Stream Data Centers

Ready for AI? Not Until You’ve Overcome These 3 Challenges

March 1, 2024
Supporting AI deployments is easy to say and hard to do. Stuart Lawrence, VP of Product Innovation & Sustainability at Stream Data Centers and Mike Licitra, VP of Solutions Architecture...
DDC Cabinet Technology

TierPoint Investors Led By Cequel III Acquire High Density Cooling Specialist DDC Cabinet Technology

Feb. 8, 2024
The spate of M&A continues surrounding advanced cooling for AI and cloud data centers.

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IEA Study Sees AI, Cryptocurrency Doubling Data Center Energy Consumption by 2026

March 8, 2024
A recent International Energy Agency (IEA) report forecasts that data centers’ total electricity consumption could reach more than 1,000 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2026.
Susquehanna Steam Electric Station

AWS Eyes 960 MW for Newly Acquired Nuclear Power Data Center in Pennsylvania

March 6, 2024
The 1200-acre data center campus, co-located with a nuclear plant in Salem Township, PA and purchased from Cumulus, is set to be built out in stages with potential 30-year power...

Vertiv

Vertiv's Free Online Configurator Eases Prefabricated Modular Data Center Design, Planning

March 7, 2024
Vertiv Modular Designer Lite is a new web-based application that streamlines the process of designing PFM data centers based on the Vertiv SmartMod and Vertiv SmartMod Max platforms...
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric - Micro Data Centers
Schneider Electric - Micro Data Centers
Schneider Electric - Micro Data Centers
Schneider Electric - Micro Data Centers
Schneider Electric - Micro Data Centers

NTT Data, Schneider Electric Collaboration Anticipates More Modular Data Centers for AI Edge Computing

Feb. 27, 2024
We've recently noted how new data center industry partnerships and M&A are facilitating operators' uptake of liquid cooling technology as a linchpin for AI computing. Now, the...

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The Key to Ensuring Uptime and Performance in Data Centers

March 8, 2024
Nicholas Cole, Data Center Solution Manager at EXFO, explains the importance of fiber-optics testing in maintaining data center performance.
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Navigating Liquid Cooling Architectures for Data Centers, Capacity and Form Factor Considerations for CDUs

Feb. 28, 2024
As the data center industry rethinks how to best support high-density loads, Vance Peterson of Schneider Electric outlines the two main categories of liquid cooling.

Special Reports

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The Data Center Edge of Tomorrow: Digital Twins, AI and the Network

Oct. 26, 2023
A recent special report article series outlines five critical ways that digital twins and artificial intelligence will impact the network.
VIAVI Solutions
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Physical and Digital Network Modernization: The New Role of AI/ML in Testing Automation, Validation and Optimization

Oct. 16, 2023
To keep pace, data center leaders must adopt a new approach to testing and validating the capabilities of their networks.

Intuitive Machines

Lonestar Data Makes it to the Moon on IM-1 Lunar Lander

Feb. 23, 2024
The startup transmits historic documents from space, and sees its lunar landing on the Intuitive Machines Odysseus mission as a first step in providing disaster recovery from ...
Data Center Frontier
DCF Show - Burns & McDonnell
DCF Show - Burns & McDonnell
DCF Show - Burns & McDonnell
DCF Show - Burns & McDonnell
DCF Show - Burns & McDonnell

DCF Show: Data Center Construction and Dallas Market Talk with Burns & McDonnell

Feb. 21, 2024
An overarching theme of our discussion with Burns & McDonnell's Robert Bonar and Christine Wood is how a client's selection of a data center and mission-critical consultant is...

White Papers

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High Density IT Cooling

Over the last ten years, power density in data centers has been on the rise, leaving many to wonder if the days of air cooling IT equipment are over. This report, courtesy of ...

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Poll Question: Data Center A.I. Stakes

This month's Data Center Frontier Poll probes the at-first-glance stakes for data centers making inroads into the expanding realm of AI computing.
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Data Center Frontier Launches Inaugural Data Center Frontier Trends Summit, Sept. 4th-6th in Reston, Virginia

Set to embody the in-depth spirit of DCF's editorial mission, our inaugural live conference's theme-based content aims to support critical decision-making across the data center...