• Sustainability

    Here you will find Data Center Frontier’s collection of data center sustainability videos and webinars which you can download for free.
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    2025 Data Center Power Poll

    Matt Vincent
    April 2, 2025
    What is the most pressing power-related challenge for data centers in 2025?

    Adobe Stock, courtesy of Radix IoT
    Source: Adobe Stock, courtesy of Radix IoT

    Are Your Data Center Monitoring Systems Hiding Critical Energy Capacity?

    Michael Skurla
    April 2, 2025
    Michael Skurla, co-founder of Radix IoT, explains how active, intelligent monitoring can extend data center lifespans while unlocking hidden capacity for AI innovation.
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    Vantage Data Centers is partnering with VoltaGrid to deploy more than 1 GW of gas-fired microgrid power at new North American facilities. (Rendering credit: VoltaGrid)

    How Microgrids and DERs Could Solve the Data Center Power Crisis

    Kathy Hitchens
    April 2, 2025
    Ahead of the Microgrid Knowledge conference this month, Samantha Reifer of Scale Microgrids and Elham Akhavan of Wood Mackenzie discuss the role microgrids and distributed energy...
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    A power room in a data center in Northern Virginia.

    The Power Play: How Data Centers and Utilities Are Reinventing Energy Strategies

    Melissa Farney
    March 27, 2025
    As U.S. data centers face mounting power demands, operators are exploring new energy models, from behind-the-meter solutions to microgrids. But will utilities embrace or resist...
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    Google and Fervo's Nevada geothermal plant.

    Why Geothermal Energy Could Be a Behind-the-Meter Game Changer for Data Center Power Demand

    Matt Vincent
    March 14, 2025
    Drilling down on the new “Geothermal Energy and Data Center Electricity Demand” report from Rhodium Group.
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    VoltaGrid at Data Center World 2024

    Dual Feed: Vantage Data Centers, VoltaGrid, Equinix, Bloom Energy, Constellation, Calpine

    Matt Vincent
    Feb. 27, 2025
    'Dual Feed' is our periodic roundup of significant news from the twin spheres of utility and on-site/behind the meter data center power supply and generation developments, alongside...
    DPR Construction
    Meta's completed Mesa, AZ data center campus projection.

    Meta Update: Opens Mesa, Arizona Data Center; Unveils Major Subsea Cable Initiative; Forges Oklahoma Wind Farm PPA; More

    David Chernicoff
    Feb. 24, 2025
    How Meta has been making strategic moves to reinforce its digital infrastructure and sustainability commitments with a plethora of significant developments.
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    STACK Infrastructure Pushes Aggressive Data Center Expansion and Sustainability Strategy Into 2025

    David Chernicoff
    Feb. 21, 2025
    After an impressive set of investments in 2024, Stack continues to drive its vision for HPC, AI and cloud-based workloads forward.
    Enchanted Rock
    Microsoft’s planned data center in San Jose will utilize renewable natural gas (RNG) and Enchanted Rock’s electrical resiliency-as-a-service microgrid, as rendered here by the company, to avoid disruptions to operations by providing reliable, low-carbon power during grid outages.

    Perspective: Can We Solve the AI Data Center Power Crisis with Microgrids?

    Kathy Hitchens
    Feb. 17, 2025
    With AI data centers on the rise, experts say there’s one lingering question that’s yet to be answered: How are we going to power them all? The answer might be microgrids.