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Roundtable Recap: Industry Ambitions vs. Reality; Data Center Site Selection Tips; Actionable Sustainability; AI Infrastructure Planning

Dec. 20, 2024
Our Executive Roundtable for the Fourth Quarter of 2024 asked five distinguished industry leaders for their seasoned takes on current, pressing trends in today's data center sphere...

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Implementing AI Safely and Sustainably in Data Centers

Mark Fenton, Product Engineering Director at Cadence Design Systems, explains why tools like digital twins will be essential for data centers to meet AI goals sustainably.
Aligned Data Centers
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DCF Tours: Aligned Data Centers PHX-01, Phoenix, Arizona

Dec. 19, 2024
Our tour of the flagship Aligned Data Centers - Phoenix facility provided a fascinating insight into modern data center operations, blending as it does principles of historical...
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Examining Google’s Sustainable Approach to Data Center Construction

Dec. 18, 2024
We look at how Google is partnering with multiple energy firms to redefine how it approaches data center sustainability.
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Virginia's Loudoun County Grapples with Future of Data Centers as New Developments Continue Statewide

Dec. 17, 2024
TECFusions and Iron Mountain up their Virginia data center investments as the Loudoun County Planning Commission charts the industry's future course there, balancing growth, regulation...
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Executive Roundtable: AI Infrastructure Roadmap

Dec. 16, 2024
We asked the distinguished industry leaders of our Q4 Executive Roundtable: How is the massive build-out of AI infrastructure and its associated power demand impacting prospects...

Data Center Frontier
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DCF Trends Summit: Strategies for Ensuring Future Cloud and AI Data Center Workloads

Dec. 6, 2024
This article recounts a panel discussion at the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit (Sept. 4-6) examining the challenges and strategies involved in meeting explosive demand for...
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What's Up With Supermicro?

Nov. 22, 2024
Catching up on all the hubbub surrounding the enigmatic maker of AI and HPC data center infrastructure, who is a key NVIDIA partner.

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Cryptocurrency and Data Centers: Perspectives for Global Digital and Financial Security

Dec. 2, 2024
Cryptocurrency has been back in the news lately and in a big way - if it ever really left. Data Center Frontier's newly announced Editor at Large Melissa Farney here examines ...
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Data Centers and Renewable Energy: A Sustainable Future

Dec. 2, 2024
Kevin Imboden, Global Director of Market Research & Intelligence for EdgeConneX, explains how harnessing renewable energy resources can significantly reduce the carbon footprint...

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Vertiv Prepares for Future of Air and Liquid Cooling, Taps Compass Datacenters as Key Partner

Dec. 3, 2024
Vertiv and Compass know that maximizing data center flexibility in an era dominated by AI and high-density computing has never been more critical.
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(L to R) DCF Founder Rich Miller; Liquid Cooling Coalition Exec. Director Erica Thomas; Legend Energy Advisors CEO Dan Crosby; Flexential CEO Chris Downie; Apolo CEO Bill Kleyman

DCF Trends Summit: Top 5 Data Center Trends to Watch for 2025

Nov. 27, 2024
This article fully recounts discussions from the closing panel, as titled above, of the inaugural Data Center Frontier Trends Summit, held Sept. 4-6, 2024 in Reston, Virginia....

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Five Compelling Reasons to Consider Natural Gas for Data Center Projects

Dec. 16, 2024
Phil Fischer, client executive for Black & Veatch, explains why new-build data centers are seriously considering natural gas for self-generation of the entire complex or for backup...
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Rendering of Meta's future AI data center campus in Louisiana, which is on track to be the hyperscaler's largest, and will rely initially on significant natural gas power generation, with a look toward full future reliance on clean energy including renewables and and nuclear.

Meta Sees $10B AI Data Center in Louisiana Using Combo of Clean Energy, Nuclear Power

Dec. 12, 2024
Meta's extensive development plans for a huge AI campus leveraging nuclear energy exemplify how the data center industry will focus on powering its future.

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How Data Centers Are Harnessing AI Workloads for Enhanced Cloud, LLM, and Inference Capabilities

Nov. 8, 2024
The changes within the data center sector are coming quickly, as performance capabilities and service delivery speeds continue to grow. At the center of the change is AI and the...
Vertiv
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Vertiv and DDC Invest to Expand High-Density AI, HPC Data Center Capabilities

Oct. 4, 2024
Be it the expansion of the knowledge and experience of senior management, or an increase in manufacturing space for critical data center technologies, industry investment continues...

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Vendor Diversification vs Vendor Consolidation: What’s the Best Way to Ensure Supply Chain Resilience for Your Data Center Construction Projects?

Dec. 18, 2024
Joey Wagner, Program Management Subject Matter Expert for Blueprint Supply Chain, outlines the benefits of two supply chain vendor strategies and explores how each can impact ...
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AI in the Data Center: Building Partnerships for Success

Dec. 11, 2024
Wesco’s Alan Farrimond explains how the right partnerships can help data centers overcome the barriers to growth and meet the demands of AI.

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.
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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.

Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers’ developing 192MW OH1 campus in New Albany, Ohio, the company's first in the Midwest United States.

Data Center Investment Boom Rolls On: DigitalBridge, Yondr, Vantage, New Albany, AustralianSuper, DataBank

Nov. 6, 2024
The demand for data center capability has become so significant that a mulitbillion dollar spend across the month of October registers as entirely normal.
Active Infrastructure
A rendering of Active Infrastructure's proposed Leesburg data center campus.

Active Infrastructure Eyes Pro-Hydrogen Data Center Campus Behind-the-Meter in Northern Virginia's Leesburg

Oct. 30, 2024
New York-based hyperscale developer Active Infrastructure is proposing a 362-acre data center campus in Leesburg, Virginia that would include significant on-site clean energy ...

White Papers

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The Secret to Building Data Centers Faster is Project Buffering

To meet the needs of the rapidly expanding global colocation market, a significant amount of new infrastructure must be built quickly. Project buffering can eliminate many of ...

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Transition to Liquid Cooling Benchmarking the Market

Join Data Center Frontier's webinar to explore the latest research on the state of liquid cooling adoption in data centers, including insights on current technologies, satisfaction...
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AI's Future in the Liquid Cooling Industry

Join us for this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, as DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent checks in with Stuart Lawrence, Vice President of Product Innovation and Sustainability with...

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AHRI 920 for Performance Rating of DX Dedicated Outdoor Air System (DOAS) Units

Aug. 27, 2024
This white paper explains how AHRI Standard 920, as the performance rating of DX Dedicated Outdoor Air System (DX-DOAS) units, is employed to rate the performance of DX equipment...