Green foundations: Can big tech help scale the sustainable cement sector?
Is electrochemistry the answer to cement's carbon conundrum?
Long Reads - Microsoft
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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How Apollo ditched the data center
How this healthcare provider is using cloud computing and AI in treating its patients
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Compute, storage, and networking: A 2025 retrospective
US manufacturing booms, Nvidia splashes the cash, and quantum machines advance
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All of the above - 2025 in energy and sustainability
With energy demand skyrocketing data centers have looked all over to secure power for their facilities
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Cloud watching in 2025
Money, neoclouds, and sovereignty in the cloud market
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A Waste(d) Opportunity: How can the UK utilize data center waste heat?
Heat reuse from data centers remains underutilized in the UK, is that about to change?
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Drilling for data: Can geothermal power meet hyperscale ambitions?
Meta and others have thrown their backing behind experimental geothermal projects as energy demand from AI continues to rise
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Johor's past, present, and future
Making sense of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing data center market
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Watt’s Next? How can batteries be best utilized in the data center sector?
A deep dive into the many use cases of battery energy storage
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Fighting in a cloudy arena
The battle to increase competition in the cloud computing market
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Hollow core fiber: What is it and why does it matter?
The technology is growing in popularity, but can it ever replace traditional single mode fiber?
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The crypto pivot to AI
Even as Bitcoin reaches record highs, miners are chasing a different digital gold
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This feature will last 10,000 years
Lasers, robots, and the archive of tomorrow
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Biggest data center acquisitions: 17 billion-dollar data center deals
The biggest data center deals; from KKR buying CyrusOne to Peak 10’s purchase of ViaWest
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Running Microsoft Cloud during the AI boom
Nuclear power, robot dreams, and the sinking of Project Natick
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How IT helps the life-saving work of the British Heart Foundation
BHF CTO Alex Duncan on deploying tech in the third sector
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The slow burn of data egress fees
Inside the cloud economics of the ‘renters not buyers’ club
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Staffing levels: are data centers at risk of unnecessary outages?
A dive into Microsoft's August Sydney West outage
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Microfluidics: Cooling inside the chip
If you think immersion tanks are the end game for liquid cooling, think again. We hear from engineers who want coolant to flow inside your chips
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The unmaking of Enron Broadband
The spectacular collapse of a Wall Street darling with dreams of Internet dominance
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What you need to know about grid-interactive data centers
A primer on connecting UPS systems to the grid
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Evaluating carbon capture’s promise
Taking carbon out of the atmosphere sounds like a brilliant idea. Why is it controversial?
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Generative AI & the future of data centers: Part VII - The Data Centers
Digital Realty's CEO and more on what generative AI means for the data center industry
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High hopes for fusion
Microsoft has signed a PPA for fusion power. Is this a serious proposition?
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Finally - a nuclear powered data center?
We’ve heard talk of nuclear-powered facilities for some years. Could the time have arrived?
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Exploring current immersion cooling deployments
Looking at the cutting-edge of cooling solutions with Microsoft and DUG McCloud
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The last data center
Long-term data storage enters a new epoch
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The end of the supercomputer era
As exascale system power requirements reach tens of megawatts, on-premise facilities are becoming less feasible