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
Long Reads - Critical Power, Microsoft
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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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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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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The crypto pivot to AI
Even as Bitcoin reaches record highs, miners are chasing a different digital gold
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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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What you need to know about grid-interactive data centers
A primer on connecting UPS systems to the grid
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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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The end of the supercomputer era
As exascale system power requirements reach tens of megawatts, on-premise facilities are becoming less feasible
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Microsoft: Hydrogen fuel cells will enable data centers to completely rethink electrical systems
Cloud giant Microsoft is experimenting with hydrogen fuel cells as a replacement for diesel backup and, potentially, much more
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Project Natick: Microsoft's underwater voyage of discovery
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
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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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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