How Apollo ditched the data center
How this healthcare provider is using cloud computing and AI in treating its patients
Long Reads - Sectors, 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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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
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Cloud watching in 2025
Money, neoclouds, and sovereignty in the cloud market
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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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Fighting in a cloudy arena
The battle to increase competition in the cloud computing market
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Hollow core fiber: What is it and why does it matter?
The technology is growing in popularity, but can it ever replace traditional single mode fiber?
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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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This feature will last 10,000 years
Lasers, robots, and the archive of tomorrow
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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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Running Microsoft Cloud during the AI boom
Nuclear power, robot dreams, and the sinking of Project Natick
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How IT helps the life-saving work of the British Heart Foundation
BHF CTO Alex Duncan on deploying tech in the third sector
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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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Staffing levels: are data centers at risk of unnecessary outages?
A dive into Microsoft's August Sydney West outage
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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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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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Re-use, refurb, recycle: Circular economy thinking and data center IT assets
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?
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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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Submarine cables find new impetus under hyperscalers
The tides of subsea cable trends are changing rapidly amid new investments and development
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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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Beyond the FPGA: Xilinx’s new CEO talks about what’s next
Victor Peng believes his company’s future lies in the data center. Here’s how he hopes to get there
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The many flavors of virtual
Virtualization can mean several different things, from bare metal to containers
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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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Opening the racks
Rack standards are getting an upgrade, but will Open Rack or Open19 come out on top?
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Tech, data center firms increase US lobbying spend
Eying lucrative gains as IT is modernized, data centers are consolidated, and taxes shrunk