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Hybrid Data Center Designs Offer Flexibility for Transition to Liquid Cooling

March 27, 2024
Liquid cooling adoption is growing, but air cooling will be around for many years. Data center experts see new builds shifting to flexible hybrid approaches that can support both...

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Hyperscale: The AI Tsunami

AFL's Alan Keizer and Keith Sullivan explore how AI is driving change and creating challenges for data centers.
Data Center Frontier

Roundtable Recap: Probing AI Data Center Designs; Edge and Modular Focus; Liquid Cooling Poll; Creative Supply Chain Strategies

March 26, 2024
Our Data Center Executive Roundtable for the First Quarter of 2024 asked for our five industry leaders' opinions and reasoned takes on four key trends in the contemporary data...
Plug Power

Data Center Hydrogen Power Is Making Strides, But Can It Ramp Fast Enough?

March 25, 2024
Plug Power expects to see hydrogen fuel cells deploying in scale within two years.
Data Center Frontier

Flexential CIO Jason Carolan Unpacks the Data Center Industry's NVIDIA Moment

March 22, 2024
Carolan believes there is a bigger story to uncover from the sheer dollar amount of NVIDIA’s recent blockbuster valuation.
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Roundtable: Where North American Data Center Supply Chain Challenges Meet Creative Industry Alliances

March 21, 2024
In the final installment of our Q1 Executive Roundtable, five industry leaders probe the junction between complex challenges with North American data center supply chains and ...

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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...

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Sustainable Scale: The Unexpected Future

March 22, 2024
Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing and Product Officer for EdgeConnex, outlines pathways to efficient operation and innovation as the data center industry races towards the future...
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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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...
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.

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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.
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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
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Schneider Electric - Micro Data Centers
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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...

VIAVI Solutions

Hyperscale Use Case: Connected Health

March 25, 2024
Sameh Yamany, Chief Technology Officer for VIAVI Solutions, explains how 5G and hyperscale will help us realize the full potential of connected health.
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Diving Into the Depths of Procurement & Sourcing

March 11, 2024
Robert Moffit, president of BluePrint Supply Chain, explores the complexities of industrial construction procurement and sourcing, revealing often-overlooked questions.

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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.

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.
JLL
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JLL - North American Data Center Report
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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."

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From Console to Cloud

This white paper from Iron Mountain explores the current challenges, drivers, and opportunities for gaming digital infrastructure.

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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...