DCD exclusive: Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment employed wave energy and post-quantum cryptography on the seabed off Scotland. But the big lessons could be learnt on land

Edge facilities will be built in hostile environments. If you open them without due care, you could destroy the whole business model, warns ASHRAE

Plus what it's like to join a business in the middle of a pandemic

For years, remote management has been a good idea for data centers. Now it has become a necessity

Aligned Energy sounds like an electric utility, but CEO Andrew Schaap says it can serve any size of colo customer thanks to innovative cooling and strong backing

While we all wait for autonomous vehicles, is a more useful technology already here?

The biggest wholesale data center company in the world, Digital Realty, has ambitions to dominate other sectors

Telecoms providers thought they’d be great at colocation data center services. Now they’re mostly getting out of the game

In a world dominated by US and Chinese providers, does the world need a European cloud player to preserve privacy? OVHcloud’s CEO, Michel Paulin, talks to DCD

As genomic data emerges at ever-increasing rates, can the data center at Wellcome Sanger Institute keep up?

You might expect the physical design of data center hardware to be pretty standard by now. Don’t be so sure…

Resources for edge applications will be more costly than centralized cloud capacity. The applications will have to justify that higher cost

What happens when you set up a colocation provider aimed at wholesale customers - and they still ask for custom deals? Stack Infrastructure’s CEO Brian Cox explains

Colocation used to be about renting space in racks. Now providers want to sell a whole hall at a time

Doug Adams discusses balancing colo and cloud demand, as well as what it's like to work under NTT

Looking forward to your improved and upgraded data center? You may have to suffer some inconvenience along the way.

Twenty years ago, the public Internet took off in AOL’s Dulles Technology Center. Now the building is coming back into play, ready for the 21st century

What happens when international fiber fails to light up, and your country hits a depression? Lamda Hellix’s CEO talks about data center life in Greece

New data center projects get all the attention, but there are a lot of facilities that are being upgraded and modernized

Some say Edge networking is just hype. Dave Johnson explains which applications are real, and which are still emerging

All around the world, data center builders are finding they have to build upwards, creating new opportunities and challenges

Who pays for critical infrastructure, in an everything-as-a-service world?

The world’s largest particle accelerator, CERN’s large hadron collider, is getting an upgrade. So is CERN’s data center infrastructure

Climate may affect data centers, but the overriding factor will be where the demand is