Projects in the US and China have shown that data centers underwater could be more efficient than those on land. But how do you build them?

Covid-19 and supply chain issues are driving up interest in circular thinking for servers and networking gear, but will hyperscalers and hardware-as-a-service OEMs make it the norm?

Hyperscalers are installing ground stations at data centers, while incumbents are moving to a more cloud-like, virtualized, as a Service way of thinking

The tides of subsea cable trends are changing rapidly amid new investments and development

Cloud giant Microsoft is experimenting with hydrogen fuel cells as a replacement for diesel backup and, potentially, much more

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

Data centers create emissions before they are built. It’s time to address the footprint of basic building materials

Microsoft ran 10 racks on a hydrogen fuel cell for 48 hours. Here’s what comes next

While customers increasingly seek out multi-cloud solutions, Western companies might prefer to stick with what they know

How Google, Amazon and Microsoft create the illusion of infinite capacity

Victor Peng believes his company’s future lies in the data center. Here’s how he hopes to get there

Virtualization can mean several different things, from bare metal to containers

We look at Microsoft, NREL and Daimler’s approaches to fuel cells in the data center

Rack standards are getting an upgrade, but will Open Rack or Open19 come out on top? 

From frontline duty on the battlefield to the far reaches of space, we chart the most extreme data centers

Eying lucrative gains as IT is modernized, data centers are consolidated, and taxes shrunk

Data centers lead the way to a post-fossil fuel world. But it may not be a smooth journey

Virtualization has altered the way we do IT. Here are 10 people playing key roles in the cloud

Major improvements in security, performance, and virtual machines lead the way

Here are ten revolutionaries, changing the way mechanical and electrical technology supports the data center

The Quincy, Washington campus is a microcosm of the history and the future of data centers

Google, Facebook and the other giants update their cooling practice every six months. What can you learn from them?

As Telstra buys into China’s Quiniu, other cloud and data center operators are expanding rapidly in the region

Data centers are meeting their green energy goals and paying to have new renewable energy supplies delivered into the grid - through RECs and PPAs