Earth Day 2021 is focusing on “Restore Our Earth.” Here’s a look at how the data center industry continues to expand its use of green technologies, renewable energy and innovations in efficiency.
Earth Day 2021: Data Centers Move Beyond Power to Be More Sustainable
The data center industry is getting greener, and moving beyond renewable power to embrace technologies to conserve water, build more efficiently and use batteries with less environmental impact. For Earth Day 2021, DCF shares recent coverage of these initiatives.
The Visual Edge: A Closer Look at Edge Data Center Design
What does edge computing infrastructure look like? Here’s a video of some of the leading designs from players in the emerging market for edge data centers, plus links to our DCF social channels for images and video.
DCF Podcast: Trends in Subsea Cables, And Why They Matter
In a new Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, host Rich Miller looks at how cloud growth is reshaping how data travels around the globe, and the role of undersea cables in these trends.
DCF Podcast: Data Center Cooling Trends
DCF Podcast Host Rich Miller talks with cooling expert Kevin Facinelli, President, Data Center Cooling at Nortek Air Solutions about the challenges of keeping servers cool as data centers get larger and taller. Also: Will vacant office space house servers in the post-COVID economy?
DCF Show: 2020 Trends – Data Tonnage & The AI Arms Race
Our 2020 podcast season kicks off with a series of shows based on DCF’s annual forecast, which we call “Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center in 2020.”
DCF Podcast: Robots in the Data Center
The robot-driven data center is closer to reality with the introduction of a robotic system to swap servers from a tank of cooling liquid. Is this another step towards more “lights out” data centers? Rich Miller, explores the past, present and future of robots in the data center.
DCF Podcast: Data Center Merger Mania: Updates on Digital Realty, CyrusOne
Everyone’s talking about data center merger mania. In this episode, host Rich Miller discusses two deals: one that happened (Digital-Realty-Interxion) and one that didn’t (CyrusOne).
DCF Podcast: The Self-Driving Future is Paved with Data
The road to the self-driving car of the future will be one where data, hardware and data centers play a major role. Autonomous vehicles are the equivalent of supercomputers rolling down the highway, creating a mind-boggling amount of data. Rich Miller, the founder and editor of Data Center Frontier, takes listeners through what the impact of autonomous vehicles will have on infrastructure and data centers.
DCF Podcast: Ashburn, Virginia – Where the Cloud Meets the Earth
Northern Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world. Our host Rich Miller explains how Ashburn became Data Center Alley and what’s going on there today.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 20 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.