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The pushback is getting louder. Where is the disconnect between data center growth and public trust, and how does it get fixed?
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The BWRX-300 is a 300 MWe, water-cooled, natural circulation Small Modular Reactor (SMR) under development by GE Hitachi, designed for 90% less land use than traditional nuclear plants. Representing the 10th evolution of GE’s boiling water reactors, the BWRX-300 utilizes passive safety systems that require no external power or operator action to maintain a safe state.
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Rendering of Bell Canada’s planned 300 MW AI data center campus in Saskatchewan, developed as part of its sovereign AI strategy with CoreWeave and Cerebras as anchor customers.
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Kirkland's Washington, DC office.
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nVent's Sam Dore explains why the smartest liquid cooling strategy is not about choosing between air and liquid. It is about building an intelligent bridge between them.
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Susan McLeod of Hitachi Energy explains why standardized power delivery has pivoted from a constraint to a competitive advantage.
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Trane
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AI growth is driving demand for high‑performance data centers. This whitepaper explores how rising energy and water use along with the shift to liquid cooling present the need...
April 7, 2026
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Unlock potential in your thermal management strategy by multiplying performance. This one-stop-shop capabilities piece details Trane's collaborative approach to smarter scaling...
April 7, 2026
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As thermal demands grow and air-cooling hits its limits, data center designers are turning to liquid cooling to unlock performance and sustainability. With multiple methods in...
March 26, 2026
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AI workloads are breaking traditional cooling limits. Discover why liquid cooling is becoming essential, how CDUs really work, and what it takes to build a scalable, future‑ready...
March 23, 2026

Podcast

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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Jason Barmann, Director of Grid Integration at EPC Power..
April 9, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier podcast, Matthew Vincent Editor in Chief speaks with Jarrett Atkinson, Vice President of Supply Chain at BluePrint Supply
April 7, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier podcast, Data Center Frontier Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Joel Wynn, VP Data Center Sales, at Southwire.
March 27, 2026
Metox
Pictured (L): Xeus™ HTS Wire Platform by MetOx. Pictured (R) 600 amps of traditional copper cable (left) compared with the equivalent capacity delivered by high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire (right), illustrating the dramatic reduction in size and material.
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As AI campuses push toward gigawatt scale, a once-niche technology—high-temperature superconducting wire—is emerging as a potential breakthrough in how power is delivered, distributed...
March 24, 2026

Videos

Wesco Data Center Solutions
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In this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, talks to Rob Macchi, Vice President of Data Center Solutions for Wesco, about why...
Feb. 25, 2026
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Join us for this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, as DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent checks in with Darren Burgess US Business Development Director, at BP Castrol for an engaging...
Jan. 8, 2026

Hyperscale

Meta
Meta’s MTIA AI accelerator, shown here on a development board, is designed to power large-scale inference workloads across the company’s hyperscale data centers.
Meta’s new generation of MTIA AI chips highlights how hyperscalers are redesigning the infrastructure stack, from silicon and interconnects to rack density, cooling, and power...
March 11, 2026
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Emerging federal pressure on hyperscalers to fund dedicated generation could accelerate the behind-the-meter era and rewrite the economics of AI infrastructure.
Feb. 27, 2026
Western Canada Data Center Alliance (WCDCA)
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Western Canada's Premier Data Centre and Digital Infrastructure Conference
Sept. 9, 2026 - Sept. 9, 2026
Datacenter Dynamics
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North America's flagship event connecting the data center ecosystem to design, build & operate sustainable digital infrastructure for the AI age.
March 23, 2026 - March 24, 2026

Colocation

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A series of announcements spanning hyperscale capacity deals, AI partnerships, private 5G deployments, and workforce recognition reveals how one of the world’s largest data center...
March 4, 2026
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Samantha Walters of Colocation America shares her thoughts on four trends she's seeing in the colocation space.
Dec. 26, 2025
Switch
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Twin supply-capacity agreements by Schneider Electric with Switch and Digital Realty show how AI data centers are starting to lock up power and thermal infrastructure in much ...
Nov. 24, 2025
Centersquare
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Centersquare’s self-funded, 10-site expansion pushes its platform to roughly 80 facilities, adding density-ready capacity across high-growth U.S. metros and key Canadian markets...
Nov. 19, 2025

Power

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The power density and scale of AI computing deployments are changing every aspect of how data centers are designed and operated. For decades, data centers had total IT loads measured...
March 27, 2026
TerraPower
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TerraPower’s Natrium reactor secures NRC construction approval in 18 months, signaling a faster licensing path for advanced nuclear and new potential for powering AI data centers...
March 27, 2026
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Data centers aren’t short on demand, capital, or customers. They’re short on electrons, facing a grid that can’t build fast enough to keep up with demand.
March 19, 2026
Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy's solid oxide fuel cell technology as deployed at a data center.
A new Bloom Energy report finds power availability emerging as the defining constraint on AI data center growth, driving gigawatt campuses, onsite generation, and shifts in U....
March 13, 2026

Cooling

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As racks surge from 10 kW to well over 100 kW, the air itself has become a design variable. The emerging science of “airflow intelligence,” a new discipline linking clean air ...
March 19, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Tom Carroll, Director of Data Center within the ACV Strategic Business Field...
March 19, 2026
HRL
HRL Laboratories unveiled what it calls a breakthrough single-phase direct liquid cooling technology, designed to enable higher GPU and rack power densities in modern data centers minus the cost and complexity of two-phase cooling systems, while supporting low-water cooling architectures.
A surge of 2026 data center cooling announcements, from HRL’s ARPA-E-backed single-phase breakthrough and Johnson Controls’ planned Alloy acquisition to new AI-ready chillers ...
Feb. 26, 2026
Submer
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Trane’s acquisition of LiquidStack and Submer’s latest expansion moves signal a new phase in AI data center growth, where liquid cooling and integrated thermal strategies are ...
Feb. 11, 2026

AI / Machine Learning

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The next generation of data centers must go beyond simply “keeping cool” — they must engineer the air itself.
April 9, 2026
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To keep pace with AI and high‑density computing, data centers must embrace hybrid cooling architectures, prepare for HVDC ecosystems, and rethink supply‑chain and grid dependencies...
April 3, 2026
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The question facing operators today is not simply whether air cooling can keep up; it’s whether the air itself is clean and stable enough to sustain the next generation of compute...
April 2, 2026
Defense Strategies Institute
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Set in National Harbor, Maryland, this two-day forum by Defense Strategies Institute is centered on the operational and strategic challenges shaping secure, high-performance data...
June 24, 2026 - June 25, 2026

Press Releases

Digital Realty
A data center operated by Digital Realty, one of the world’s largest technology landlords.
Global content and marketing leader at Digital Realty brings expertise in AI, platform strategy, and digital infrastructure storytelling.
April 10, 2026
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Kirk Offel, CEO of Overwatch Mission Critical, testifies before Texas lawmakers on the importance of data centers for economic growth, national security, and grid stability, emphasizing...
April 9, 2026
ISE Expo
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After nearly 30 years shaping the ISE brand, Sharon Vollman retires as Content Ambassador, with industry veteran Randall René stepping in to guide future programming as ISE EXPO...
April 7, 2026
Air2o
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Air2O has achieved eligibility to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), aligning with NIST, DFARS, and DOE requirements as it targets federal and defense infrastructure...
April 3, 2026