Michael Lahoud, Chief Operating Officer and Partner at Stream Data Centers, highlights four steps to ensure successful “marriages” or data center partnerships and for both client and provider, particularly the data center build-operate relationship.
Racing in a Modular World
Blake Weaver, Data Center Specialist at ProLift Rigging, explores what it takes to win with modular construction in the speed to market race.
Five Critical Success Factors in Data Center Construction
Brett Semans, Managing Principal at DCi Data Center Infrastructures, delves into how the data center build process has evolved. Read on to further explore how to ensure data center construction success.
Set Your Project Team up for Modular Build Success
Neil Smith, Vice President of International Business, TAS, explores the benefits, details and logistic challenges of modular construction for the data center industry from start to finish.
Building the Data Center of the Future
Like most industries, the data center industry has evolved, especially in recent years. While basic data center design hasn’t changed much, some aspects of it have greatly improved. Alex Sharp, Global Head of Design and Construction at Iron Mountain, takes a look at data centers of the future.
Exploring Project Buffering to Build Data Centers Faster
Zech Connell, Data Center Market Manager at ProLift Rigging Co., explores Project Buffering to build faster data centers.
Making Concrete Greener: Addressing Cement’s Carbon Problem
Compass Datacenters will use low-carbon concrete from CarbonCure for its data center campuses, reflecting the need for sustainability to permeate all aspects of data center development.
Virtual Commissioning: Delivering New Data Center Capacity in a Pandemic
Compass Datacenters used a “virtual commissioning” process to deliver a new data center in Raleigh, using live-streaming cameras and wireless sensors to manage the process remotely, with on-site tasks completed by a small group of staff separated by safe distances.
Pandemic Poses Challenges for Data Center Construction, Supply Chain
Data center construction continues to move forward, with a handful of projects slowed or halted by COVID-19. But analysts see risks for data center construction projects and the supply chain supporting them.
Data Center Job Spotlight: Opportunities in Ashburn, NYC, Boston
Data Center Jobs: This month’s top data center job opportunities ranged from Dallas and New York, to several open positions in Northern Virginia.
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