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The industry will settle on a definition, and should choose one that still works in 2030
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The industry will settle on a definition, and should choose one that still works in 2030
Sustainability is no longer about reducing environmental impact, it should be increasingly about making better use of every resource entering the facility and capturing greater value from what leaves it
Servers were thrown
How will it impact investment and buildout in the country?
Why efficiency in existing facilities has shifted from good intention to obligation
While the battery units are looking after the servers, who is looking after the batteries?
AI-focused data centers require new backup power strategies as their rack power density is rising sharply and their workloads fluctuate rapidly
Developers should consider energy density together with safety, installation location, environmental conditions and proximity to occupied buildings
And why the issue around noise shouldn't be ignored
As AI continues to reshape infrastructure needs, the winners will be planning not for today's workloads, but for those still to come
The risk of fire has increased dramatically as data centers grow in quantity and size
Sealed management solves the water, power, and waste heat problems the public is increasingly wary of
Stop treating coatings as a finishing touch
Heat is a sign that something good is happening. The question is whether we can take that signal and make it even more valuable
Three strategies for effective cost containment
Why the country offers a solution to many constraints
A moratorium mistake
The reality of AI infrastructure has arrived: the power-hungry chips of today, such as the NVIDIA Blackwell, have rendered traditional air cooling obsolete
Data centers use a country's worth of power, and the figure keeps climbing, but the industry measures the problem badly and wastes much of what it uses
The conversation around AI infrastructure often centers on one question: Where will all the power come from?
And why there's constraints to overcome in order to meet AI workload demands
Developers are taking on more of the infrastructure required to generate, store, and distribute electricity. That shift is changing what it takes to build a data center
Success will belong to the utilities, developers, manufacturers, and contractors who treat power delivery as a shared engineering challenge rather than a series of separate handoffs
It’s time to tell a more complete story
“The data center industry doesn't have a permitting problem or a communications problem. It has a trust problem”
What does it take to deliver the silicon powering today and tomorrow’s data centers?
All your power needs provided under one partner, with the skills and knowledge to bring innovation to your solution
Virtual power plants, grid enhancing technologies and around-the-meter models can all support speed to power