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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
As AI infrastructure development accelerates, Loudoun County’s Buddy Rizer and Milldam Public Relations founder Adam Waitkunas warn that community acceptance and political durability...
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Skybox Datacenters’ PowerCampus Austin in Hutto, Texas, is a 160-acre hyperscale campus designed for up to 600 MW of power capacity and as much as 4 million square feet of data center space. The development is supported by an onsite privately owned substation in Oncor territory, underscoring the scale of the infrastructure buildout continuing in Texas as the state tightens scrutiny of grid access, infrastructure costs and resource use. (Photo: BackYard Production)
Data Center Frontier
From left: Nabeel Mahmood, Managing Director, Nomad Futurist; David McCall, Brand Evangelist, QTS Data Centers; Tara Risser, Chief Business Officer, Cologix; Karen Petersburg, SVP of Design & Engineering, AREP/PowerHouse; and Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief, Head of Content, Data Center Frontier/EndeavorB2B, during the opening session of the 2026 Data Center Frontier Trends Summit in Reston, Virginia. “From Projection to Execution” opened the conference with a live editorial roll call from DCF Advisory Board members on what has changed in the past year—and where power, capital, labor and community constraints are accelerating or slowing the delivery of new data center infrastructure.
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Voices of the Industry

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Emerson's Wally Baker explains why instrumentation technologies proven in challenging industrial environments, such as magnetic flow meters, meet the demands of hyperscale data...
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Brett Rutherford, Regional Sales Manager for PDU Cables, explains why uptime is no longer the sole measure of resiliency.
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Learning Resources

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Virginia's data centers are far more than buildings filled with servers. They represent the foundation of America's digital infrastructure investment, a source of sustained prosperity...
Aug. 3, 2026
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Is your power infrastructure ready for AI? Discover how leading data centers are rethinking resiliency, challenging industry assumptions, and choosing power distribution strategies...
July 30, 2026
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Learn how hyperscale teams are evolving infrastructure execution through stronger partnerships, aligned planning, and faster, more predictable deployment strategies.
July 29, 2026
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This webinar examines the infrastructure realities behind liquid-cooled AI deployments, exploring how operators are preparing facilities to support higher-density compute while...
Aug. 19, 2026

Podcast

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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
As AI clusters advance from 400G and 800G toward 1.6-terabit networks, optics is consuming a larger share of infrastructure cost, power and operational risk. Cisco’s Bill Gartner...
July 28, 2026
Sage Geosystems
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
AI has shifted the data center energy conversation from long-term decarbonization to immediate, dispatchable capacity. Sage Geosystems CEO Cindy Taff explains why next-generation...
July 21, 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 Eddie Burns, Market Development Manager at US Valve
July 16, 2026
Data Center Frontier
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
DC Byte Managing Director Colby Cox explains why executable power—not demand or capital—is determining where AI campuses get built, how 100- to 300-kW racks are reshaping facility...
July 14, 2026

Videos

DCF July 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
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As AI infrastructure scales from isolated builds to continuous deployment, Sitetracker sees lifecycle visibility becoming a competitive advantage.
July 7, 2026

Hyperscale

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The DCF Trends Summit 2026 arrives as historic demand for digital infrastructure collides with public anger, political intervention and the limits of the power system. The industry...
July 31, 2026
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Meta’s planned Alberta AI campus combines gigawatt-scale data center development with a dedicated 932 MW natural gas power plant, illustrating the province’s emerging “bring your...
July 29, 2026
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Record hyperscaler spending, multibillion-dollar leases and a $40 billion acquisition are colliding with higher borrowing costs, utility protections, community resistance and ...
July 24, 2026
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The collapse of the Prince William Digital Gateway and New York’s pause on new hyperscale permits expose a widening gap between announced capacity and projects that can survive...
July 23, 2026

Colocation

Sabey Data Centers
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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
NTT Data
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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
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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

Power

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Understand how UPS and BTM BESS serve different but complementary roles in large data centers, why the distinction is becoming more important, and how AI workloads are increasing...
Aug. 1, 2026
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The Three Mile Island nuclear generating station in Pennsylvania. Constellation is working to restart the former Unit 1 as the Christopher M. Crane Clean Energy Center under a long-term power agreement with Microsoft. (Photo: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Public Domain)
Reactor tests, power contracts and federal financing have accelerated the U.S. nuclear pipeline. The harder question is which projects can convert those commitments into dependable...
July 31, 2026
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Jarrett Atkinson of BluePrint Supply Chain explains why the data center industry's next competitive advantage won't come from finding power alone. It will come from building the...
July 29, 2026
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The country's new National Electricity Strategy aims to double power capacity by 2050, focusing on clean energy, grid connectivity, workforce development, and innovative financing...
July 13, 2026

Cooling

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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
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Rick Hombsch of MTE explains why power quality is not optional, it's foundational.
June 15, 2026
Motivair
Motivair CEO Rich Whitmore addresses the audience at the May 2026 Schneider Electric global press event in Buffalo, NY.
Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
As AI infrastructure scales from megawatts to gigawatts, Motivair CEO Rich Whitmore explains why the future of data center cooling depends less on breakthrough technology than...
June 11, 2026

AI / Machine Learning

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Eric Yang, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE), explains how “x”PO technologies are reshaping the optical interconnect ...
July 24, 2026
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Mid-July’s data center news cycle revealed an industry accumulating capital, land and gigawatts at extraordinary speed—while encountering increasingly organized resistance over...
July 17, 2026
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Matt Johnson, business development manager, Xylem, explains why data center operators are embracing modular architectures to accelerate deployment, address workforce shortages...
July 17, 2026
Orbital.Inc
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Orbital Compute’s proposed 100,000-satellite network and Cowboy Space’s vertically integrated Stampede system offer sharply different visions for moving gigawatts of AI infrastructure...
July 15, 2026

Press Releases

nVent
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Significantly raising full-year sales and EPS guidance
Aug. 11, 2026
AQ Matic Valve and Controls Company, Inc
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Ultrasonic, stainless steel, service friendly design delivers reliable, low maintenance performance in demanding data center cooling and facility water applications
Aug. 11, 2026
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160,000 square foot site will support growing liquid cooling demand from AI and high-performance computing environments Company’s third liquid cooling manufacturing expansion ...
Aug. 11, 2026
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Summit shifts to spring dates and co-locates with Microgrid Knowledge for the first time, uniting the digital infrastructure and distributed energy communities under one roof....
Aug. 6, 2026