The new world of cooling may end up looking a lot like the old world

All the proof you need that liquid cooling has arrived

Why has DCD been talking about air cooling this week?

As an industry watcher, I wish every country could have a technopolitical bust-up as good as the one going on in Germany

This is the application immersion cooling and digital boilers have been waiting for

No one agrees on the reason for Britain's sudden shortage of tomatoes. But for once, data centers might be the answer

For more than a decade, data centers have been getting warmer - was that a mistake?

Want space? The answer could be under your feet

As the climate warms, and facilities attempt to minimize cooling for efficiency reasons, we could see a trend for cooling systems failures

If data centers promise something, they will be expected to deliver it

Even the thirstiest data centers are still a small part of the water economy. That does not let them off the hook

They will fight tooth and nail against doing the right thing

Two electricty providers have refused to provide power to Yandex in Finland. The result is more Russian gas is being burnt by the locals

Data centers won't use liquid cooling till they have to. Could that time be near?

Creativity is there. Hope and vision are in short supply

The new Outposts offering puts AWS hardware in your data center. That's weird enough. Why is it also re-importing VMware to the enterprise?

Regulations and changing locations means extra care has to be taken when it comes to the air around you

The heat generated by servers is a problem. Unless you can put the servers where heat is required…. 

The airline could win back some trust if it helped to break the secrecy around IT failures
Our latest on the BA outage is here

Data centers are making things better for the rest of us

While politicians do little, the energy industry’s demand side and supply side need to talk. DCD aims to help get the discussion going

IT experts and facilities managers are in separate silos right now, but there won’t be room for both of them in the data center of the future 

For most of us, it’s a distant, and maybe-not-so-serious goal, but there’s one sector where off-grid operation is considered normal 

There are many ways to make liquid cooling more reliable, more affordable, and easier to handle

As grids get hard up, could data centers share their backup generators with the rest of society?

Edge networks demand data centers in towns, close to people. That’s a difficult location - but at heat reuse could be one benefit

While we’re dreaming up underwater data centers, we also need to tweak our generators

There are more fuel cell vendors than Bloom, and more technologies than solid oxide