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Stories by Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the Founder & Editor of Data Center Frontier. He writes about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them.

Land and Expand: NTT Global Data Centers Builds Out its New Campuses

By Rich Miller - May 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

An aerial view of the NTT Global Data Center Americas PH1 facility in Mesa, Arizona. (Photo: NTT Global Data Centers Americas)

NTT Global Data Centers Americas has spent the past two years entering new markets in Hillsboro, Chicago, Santa Clara and Phoenix. The company’s expansion is now shifting to adding capacity by building more data centers on its campuses.

Tagged With: NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Phoenix

As Supply Chain Concerns Grow, Cloud Players Scoop Up Data Center Space

By Rich Miller - May 3, 2022 Leave a Comment

A new data center under construction on the Vantage Data Centers campus in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Data center leasing has kicked into warp speed, as cloud players and social networks race to procure cloud capacity for long-term growth. The record leasing is driven by concerns about project delays from supply chain disruptions.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Leasing

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for April 2022

By Rich Miller - May 2, 2022 Leave a Comment

Power and cooling equipment in a gallery running alongside a data hall in the QTS Shellhorn DC-1 data center. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Our Top 10 most popular stories for last month includes profiles on eight leading developers and service providers. If you’re seeking to understand the competitive landscape of the data center sector, it’s a pretty good reading list.   

Tagged With: Compass Data Centers, CyrusOne, Digital Bridge, Digital Realty, Evoque, Iron Mountain, QTS Realty, Sabey Data Centers

Iron Mountain Signs 72 Megawatt Lease at its Manassas Data Center

By Rich Miller - April 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Iron Mountain-VA-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Iron Mountain Data Centers has signed a 72-megawatt lease for a tenant in Northern Virginia, the largest lease in the company’s history. The deal reflects the the super-sizing of cloud deals and data center campuses across Northern Virginia.

Tagged With: Iron Mountain, Manassas, Northern Virginia

EdgeConneX Continues Global Expansion, Buying Indonesia’s GTN

By Rich Miller - April 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

The GTN data center near Jakarta, Indonesia, which has been acquired by EdgeConneX. (Image: EdgeConneX)

EdgeConneX said today that it will further expand its presence in Asia with the acquisition of GTN Data Center in Jakarta. Indonesia is a fast-growing market for hyperscale operators.

Tagged With: Asia-Pacific, EdgeConneX, Indonesia

Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers

By Rich Miller - April 27, 2022 1 Comment

A low-carbon concrete formula is poured at the DeKalb data center location in the construction personnel office space. (Photo: Meta)

Can the servers inside a data center make the walls and floors greener? Researchers at Meta and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using artificial intelligence to reduce the environmental impact of concrete.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Meta

Metaverse Building Boom: Meta Adds 3 Data Centers at Illinois Cloud Campus

By Rich Miller - April 27, 2022 1 Comment

A rendering of the future expansion of the Meta data center in DeKalb County Illinois. Meta is adding three data center buildings. (Image: Meta)

Meta continues to prepare its digital infrastructure for the metaverse, adding three more data centers to its $1 billion cloud campus in Illinois. We look at Meta’s accelerating building boom and what it tells us about the future of data infrastructure.

Tagged With: Facebook, Meta

Cloud Platforms, Data Center Builders Join iMasons Accord to Slash Carbon

By Rich Miller - April 26, 2022 Leave a Comment

Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Meta are among more than 70 companies joining the iMasons Climate Accord, which calls for new steps to track and reduce the environmental impact of the data centers that power the Internet.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Google, Infrastructure Masons, Meta, Microsoft

Iron Mountain Raises its Game with Hyperscale Wins, ITRenew Acquisition

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Iron Mountain-VA-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Iron Mountain is becoming a larger force in the data center business, building beyond its base of enterprise customers with recent hyperscale wins. The recent acquisition of ITRenew may boost Iron Mountain’s sustainability strategy.

Tagged With: Circular Economy, Enterprise, Iron Mountain, IT Renew

New Data Center Players Enter the Greater Chicago Market

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

A data hall inside the newly-opened Aligned ORD-01 data center in Northlake, Ill. in the Greater Chicago market. (Image: Aligned)

Interest in the Greater Chicago data center market is on the rebound, sparked by economic incentives and new projects in both the Downtown and Suburban Chicago markets. That includes new projects from Aligned and Skybox Datacenters.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Site Selection, NTT, Raging Wire

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Voices of the Industry

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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DCF Spotlight

Data center modules on display at the recent Edge Congress conference in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

An aerial view of major facilities in Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia. (Image: Loudoun County)

Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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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. Meet the DCF team.

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