Key takeaways across two days of intense digital infrastructure conversations at DCD Connect London 2026

How combined-cycle power delivers reliable, dispatchable electricity while supporting grid stability in North America

The connectivity foundations for AI infrastructure at Corning’s fingertips

A framework for million-dollar decisions, balancing rising chip temperatures with climate reality for efficient thermal management

Overcoming multifiber test challenges inside the modern data center

Where AI is concerned, trust is never assumed – it is proven

A demonstration of tangible outcomes and real-world impact prioritized over high-level sustainability claims

For strategy and sustainability, what matters is not just the energy entering a facility, but the real-world value it creates – and the environmental cost that comes with it

Real-time visibility offers a broader view, turning passive data into actionable insight, uncovering inefficiencies, and safeguarding uptime before issues emerge

AI has outgrown one-size-fits-all infrastructure. As workloads diversify, data center operators increasingly need network architectures and fiber plants designed around specific operational, performance, and business objectives

Under the watchful eye of investors and communities alike, data centers are turning to third-party building certification as a first step toward regulatory assurance

With chip advancements arriving in waves, data center growth can drift without clear direction, requiring strong HR and Finance leadership to set strategy, course, and pace

Rapid digital growth can make data center expansion feel like smoke and mirrors. How can sustainability, community engagement, and transparency ensure technology serves people, not obscures them?

Leveraging Swedish automotive engineering expertise, Volvo Penta is innovating beyond the engine itself, driving data center power generation to meet the growing demands of modern digital infrastructure

Real sustainability progress can’t be designed from afar. It isn’t a fairy tale dreamt up in a distant boardroom, but work shaped by local communities and people living alongside infrastructure

As South Asia’s key data center market, India is shifting from serving telecom giants to hyperscalers, prioritizing space-efficient design and green power to meet growing demand beyond Tier 1

Knowledge is power, allowing data centers to track and correct harmonics and power factor, avoiding costly energy waste, protecting infrastructure, and maximizing system efficiency

Southeast Asia is expanding from overspill demand, highlighting emerging hubs and the growing need for fiber and subsea connectivity

Managing electrical harmonics so you don’t waste your energy on energy waste

Spanning China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, East Asia is driving resilient digital growth by leveraging stable hyperscale hubs, smart grids, and AI-driven expansion beneath the surface

The evolving role of thermal management in high-performance, utility-scale data centers

How data center leaders can embed sustainability into every stage of digital infrastructure

Turning mountains into milestones by applying a standardized, repeatable campus model – proving that portfolio-wide sustainability and operational excellence can scale together

Sandy Xiao on how asking different questions sparks the quiet innovations that make data centers faster, greener, and fairer

The need for network evolution to deliver fast, reliable, and secure support in the AI era – built to evolve at pace, whatever the future holds

Aligning on DC standards is key to powering next-generation AI data centers – or they risk being knocked out by inefficiency

Electrical safety in high-density data centers amid the accelerating adoption of AI and HPC technologies

Hydrogen and oxygen combine to produce clean power. But turning that reaction into a reliable backup solution for modern data centers? That’s where things get more complex