• Design

    The latest developments in data center design, providing updates on the innovations and best practices for creating energy efficient and sustainable data centers. Our stories provide insights into the role of modular and pre-fabricated data center designs, the impact of the Open Compute Project and open hardware movement, and new approaches to creating data center racks and servers.
    Open Compute Project
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    Matt Vincent
    May 8, 2025
    As AI workloads push power, density, and interconnects to new extremes, the Open Compute Project is stepping up with open standards, community-driven innovation, and a bold vision...

    Stream Data Centers
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    Stuart Lawrence
    May 7, 2025
    Stuart Lawrence, Stream Data Centers’ VP of Product Innovation and Sustainability, explains how the widespread adoption of generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) is affecting...
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    NVIDIA's Wade Vinson at Data Center World 2025
    Matt Vincent
    April 30, 2025
    Nvidia's Wade Vinson revealed how retrofits, real-time modeling, and 5MW modular blocks are redefining the AI data center — with future-proof designs built for Blackwell, Rubin...
    Vertiv
    An illustration of the Vertiv SmartRun solution.
    Matt Vincent
    April 28, 2025
    Facing a future of soaring densities and faster deployments, Vertiv is positioning itself at the center of the AI data center buildout. The company has unveiled a powerful new...
    Onics
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    Matt Vincent
    April 22, 2025
    As AI workloads surge, so do inefficiencies at the electrical neutral line. Onics is rewriting the rules with intelligent filtering that reduces harmonic distortion, improves ...
    NVIDIA Blog
    Nvidia's new Omniverse Blueprint advances AI factory design and simulation. The blueprint, connected to Cadence, ETAP, Schneider Electric and Vertiv solutions, lets engineers design, test and optimize a new generation of intelligence-manufacturing data centers using digital twins.
    David Chernicoff
    April 14, 2025
    We explore the concept of AI factories as the engine driving the next industrial revolution, with NVIDIA pioneering purpose-built systems for manufacturing intelligence at scale...
    Ampere Computing
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    David Chernicoff
    April 4, 2025
    By bringing Ampere into the fold alongside Arm and Graphcore, SoftBank is building more than chips—it’s building leverage. As OpenAI's Stargate and Oracle's cloud ambitions scale...
    Schneider Electric
    Microgrid Testing and Validation Lab
    David Chernicoff
    March 12, 2025
    There are a variety of technologies that can be tested within the company's new microgrid lab. Energy sources include on-site renewables such as solar, backup generators, and ...
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    Source: Getty Images, Courtesy of JLL
    Brandon Reed
    March 10, 2025
    Brandon Reed, Senior Vice President – Head of Commissioning North America at JLL, explores the critical stages of data center commissioning and their impact on facility reliability...