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Data Centers Can Have Both: Reliability and Sustainability Start at Specification
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (96+ words) "The target audience is data center owners, engineers, and procurement professionals focused on designing and building reliable, sustainable infrastructure that balances performance with environmental impact through early planning and proper specification." Jack Graves is Vice President of Strategic Verticals, Southwire…...
DCF Tours: SDC Manhattan, 375 Pearl St.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1592+ words) At 375 Pearl Street, Sabey Data Centers has built something that feels increasingly rare in the urban core: a data center that is not just surviving Manhattan's constraints, but turning them into advantages. But a recent walkthrough of the facility with…...
Standardize to Scale: Powering Faster, Lower-Risk Data Center Growth in the AI Era
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (648+ words) Source: Getty, courtesy of Hitachi Energy Susan Mc Leod, Vice President, Data Center Market Development, Hitachi Energy (Source: Hitachi Energy) The AI boom has transformed data center growth from steady expansion to a full-speed sprint. Hyperscalers and colocation providers are…...
Data Centers & National Security Summit
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (251+ words) "The target audience includes senior leaders, experts, and decision-makers from the federal government, defense sector, commercial industry, national labs, and academia who are focused on securing and optimizing data center infrastructure to support national security, technological innovation, and economic growth....
International Data Center Day: Future Frontiers 2030-2070
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (1767+ words) They called it "Build the Cloud." Which, to the adults in the room, sounded like branding. To the kids, it sounded literal. On a gymnasium floor somewhere in suburban Ohio (though it could just as easily have been Osaka, or…...
Executive Roundtable: The AI Infrastructure Credibility Test
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (695+ words) Aerial view of a new AI data center campus under construction in New Albany, Ohio, a fast-growing hub in the Columbus market, on November 2, 2025. For the fourth installment of DCF's Executive Roundtable for the First Quarter of 2026, we turn to…...
Project Stalled: Grid Bottlenecks Threaten the Fifth Industrial Revolution
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (319+ words) The defining feature of our current data center cycle isn't a shortage of customers or capital; it's a shortage of power that can actually be delivered on time. In the space of three years, large'load interconnection queues have gone from…...
The Gigawatt Bottleneck: Power Constraints Define AI Data Center Growth
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1230+ words) Bloom Energy's solid oxide fuel cell technology as deployed at a data center. Power is rapidly becoming the defining constraint on the next phase of data center growth. Across the industry, developers and hyperscalers are discovering that the biggest obstacle…...
Community Opposition Emerges as New Gatekeeper for AI Data Center Expansion
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1576+ words) The rapid global buildout of AI infrastructure is colliding with a new constraint that hyperscalers cannot solve with capital or GPUs: local opposition. The financial stakes are already substantial. Recent reporting indicates that tens of billions of dollars in planned…...
Onsite Generation: Beating the Power & Interconnect Queue for AI
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (482+ words) Data Center Frontier Onsite Generation: Beating the Power & Interconnect Queue for AI 2: 00 PM ET / 1: 00 PM CT / 11: 00 AM PT / 7: 00 PM GMT AI infrastructure growth is now constrained less by demand than by power availability. Across North America, interconnection queues and transmission…...