Green foundations: Can big tech help scale the sustainable cement sector?
Is electrochemistry the answer to cement's carbon conundrum?
Long Reads - Business Operations, Microsoft
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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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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Fighting in a cloudy arena
The battle to increase competition in the cloud computing market
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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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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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The slow burn of data egress fees
Inside the cloud economics of the ‘renters not buyers’ club
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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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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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Building underwater
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?
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Data centers with dishes: How the cloud is driving a merger between data centers and ground stations
Hyperscalers are installing ground stations at data centers, while incumbents are moving to a more cloud-like, virtualized, as a Service way of thinking
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Curing concrete’s carbon curse
Data centers create emissions before they are built. It’s time to address the footprint of basic building materials
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Alibaba faces an uphill battle in EMEA
While customers increasingly seek out multi-cloud solutions, Western companies might prefer to stick with what they know
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Land of the Giants: Building the hyperscale cloud
How Google, Amazon and Microsoft create the illusion of infinite capacity
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Fueling the future
We look at Microsoft, NREL and Daimler’s approaches to fuel cells in the data center
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Top 10 extreme data centers
From frontline duty on the battlefield to the far reaches of space, we chart the most extreme data centers
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Learn cooling from the webscale operators
Google, Facebook and the other giants update their cooling practice every six months. What can you learn from them?
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How data centers pay for renewable energy
Data centers are meeting their green energy goals and paying to have new renewable energy supplies delivered into the grid - through RECs and PPAs