Pennsylvania's Appalachian appeal
Why data center operators like Amazon and TierPoint are building in PA
Long Reads - The Management & Operations Channel, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Shaking off the rust: Pennsylvania’s data center rise
How the Rust Belt state has become one of latest boom markets in the US
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Data centers and facade solar: Everything you need to know
Digital infrastructure operators can make hay while the sun is shining
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Are tokens the only data center metric that matter in the age of AI?
Are PUE and WUE doomed to fall behind token efficiency as the only thing that's important?
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Everything data center operators need to know about dielectric fluids
A primer on the fluids used in data center cooling
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Immersion cooling and IT reliability: What do the numbers say?
Is immersion cooling good for uptime?
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On-site rooftop solar at data centers: Everything you need to know
What to consider when deploying rooftop solar at data centers
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How did Iberian operators fare in the great power cut?
Data center operators keep their lights on, but could telco companies have done better during in Spain's worst ever power cut?
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Doug’s secret weapons
NTT GDC CEO Doug Adams on taking the helm at a complex global company
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How liquid cooling impacts uptime thinking
A dive into the murky waters of resilience and redundancy of liquid cooling
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NIMBY lessons for data centers from renewable developers
How renewable developers are coping with local opposition to energy projects
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Outreach with the opposition: A conversation with the Piedmont Environmental Council
DCD talks to a Virginia opposition group on why they want to prevent unbridled data center growth from causing a tragedy of the commons
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Paying the premium: Why 2023 was a bad year for space insurance
Last year was the worst ever in the space insurance market – could satellite innovation be stifled as a result?
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3D printing: A revolution in construction?
An overview of 3D printing
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Longer coherence: How the quantum computing industry is maturing
Academics with screwdrivers are making way for operations engineers and SLAs
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Edge data center security: The challenge of unmanned resiliency
How security might need to change for ‘lights out’ Edge facilities
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Cloud repatriation and the death of cloud-only
Companies are realizing a hybrid mix of cloud and on-prem could be a better strategy than a binary approach
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Building APAC’s Digital Edge
DCD talks to Digital Edge CEO Samuel Lee about the importance of being a local player
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Taking down the infrastructure of cybercrime
Data centers raids are rare, but cybercriminals love hijacking legit cloud instances
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The cable ship capacity crunch
Demand for cable continues to increase, but the fleet laying and maintaining them is small and aging
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How to break into a data center: Pen testers reveal their secrets
Physical security isn’t a commodity, but an ongoing challenge
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Drones at (and even in) a data center
Do today’s mega-campuses need aerial security as much as human patrols?
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Who’s a good bot? Deploying robot dogs at data centers
As Novva deploys Boston Dynamics’ Spot dog robot at its Utah data center, CEO Wes Swenson says larger data centers need automated security