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DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 81 - Telecom tower opportunities in Africa and the Middle East with Sainesh Vallabh, Helios TowersIn this episode, we talk to Sainesh Vallabh, group chief commercial officer, Helios Towers, about the company’s strategic focus to drive tenants to its mobile tower infrastructure. Sainesh explains the company’s plans for the year, opportunities to look at new markets, and the challenges that Africa and the Middle East present for Helios. 2025-06-1223 min
最新技術を楽しく学ぼうテスラジオ（TESRADIO）DellがAIサーバーで好決算？！ビッグテック7社のデータセンター投資の現在地AI需要で爆発成長するデータセンター市場。Dell好決算、NVIDIA独走、Tesla独自路線の背景を徹底解説。70兆円投資の真実とは？次世代テック戦略の必見情報！00:00 オープニング・70兆円の衝撃00:49 Dell好決算が示すAI需要の現実02:22 ハイパースケーラー37兆円投資戦争03:32 【クイズ】最大投資家はどこ？04:13 NVIDIA：AI工場の設計士戦略06:58 Tesla独自路線Dojoの本当の意味09:44 Dellの決算から見える業界構造の真実11:23 まとめ：3つの重要ポイント## 参考文献**Dell Technologies Delivers Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2024 Financial Results**https://investors.delltechnologies.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dell-technologies-delivers-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-fiscal-1**Dell earnings report Q4 2025**https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/27/dell-earnings-report-q4-2025-.html**Data Center Capex Surged 51 Percent to $455 Billion in 2024, According to Dell'Oro Group**https://www.delloro.com/news/data-center-capex-surged-51-percent-to-455-billion-in-2024/**Hyperscale Capex Surges 82 Percent in 3Q 2024, Fueled by AI Infrastructure Spending, According to Dell'Oro Group**https://www.delloro.com/news/hyperscale-capex-surges-82-percent-in-3q-2024-fueled-by-ai-infrastructure-spendi...2025-06-0214 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 80 - Old blighty with Mike Hoy, PulsantIn this episode, we are staying in the editorial team’s home county - the UK. Pulsant is a regional Edge provider focusing on the UK market, and has recently launched a new Sovereign Cloud offering. We talk with Pulsant’s CTO Mike Hoy about the data center industry in the UK in the context of the Labour government, how enterprise strategies are changing in relation to cloud deployments, and discuss the ongoing CMA investigation into the cloud services market. 2025-05-2927 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowBonus episode - Introducing SDxCentral, with exec editor Dan MeyerDCD's EiC Sebastian Moss talks to SDxCentral executive editor Dan Meyer about what it means for the two publications to work together, and what we can learn about the current tech cycle from previous booms and busts.2025-05-2242 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 79 - Competing clouds with Kevin Cochrane, VultrWith the cloud market in a constant war for market share, alternative providers to the “big three” have emerged. With 32 regions globally, Vultr has a huge worldwide reach, and claims to be able to offer core cloud services (and GPUs) at a significantly lower cost than the hyperscalers. In this episode, Kevin Cochrane joins us to discuss the cloud computing market, how Vultr is able to offer its services for less, and the company's push into AI. 2025-05-1530 min
Simply TechSamsung’s Health Push, AMD’s New CPUs, and Wembley’s 5G LeapExplore Samsung's latest health features in the Galaxy S25, AMD's launch of the EPYC 4005 series CPUs for SMBs, and O2's 5G network upgrade at Wembley Stadium. Discover how these innovations are shaping technology and connectivity in today's world.
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https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4005-series.html2025-05-1513 minSimply TechAI Infrastructure Expansion and Maritime Connectivity BreakthroughsExplore the latest advancements in AI infrastructure as Aligned Data Centers and Lambda collaborate on a new hub in Dallas-Fort Worth. Discover how Nokia's contract with Maersk is set to transform maritime connectivity with private wireless networks. Join us for these stories and more on Simply News Radio.
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...2025-05-1308 minSimply TechAI Hub Launches in Texas, Nokia’s 5G Deal with Maersk, and Australia’s Satellite SMS BreakthroughIn today's episode, we explore the launch of a new AI infrastructure hub in Dallas-Fort Worth by Aligned Data Centers and Lambda, marking a significant boost in AI capabilities. We also discuss Nokia's major contract with Maersk to deploy private wireless 5G networks across its fleet, enhancing maritime connectivity. Plus, TPG Telecom and Lynk achieve a milestone by sending Australia's first satellite-based SMS, revolutionizing rural communications. Join us for these stories and more on Simply News Radio.
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https://www.datacenterdynamics...2025-05-0912 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 78 - Optimizing Linux to cut data center energy use, with Prof. Martin Karsten and Joe Domato, FastlyCould changing just 30 lines of code in Linux help cut data center energy use?In this episode, we speak to Professor Martin Karsten, professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and Joe Domato, distinguished engineer at Fastly, about their work optimizing the Linux kernel, which could have big implications if applied by digital infrastructure operators2025-05-0128 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowBonus episode - Understanding AWS' chip strategy with Gadi HuttIn a compute world dominated by Nvidia, hyperscalers are looking to build out their own semiconductor infrastructure capable of training and inference workloads at scale.We chat to AWS product manager Gadi Hutt about his company's approach, based on its 2016 Annapurna Labs acquisition. We talk about Trainium and Inferentia, how the company balances against its GPU fleet, and what it's cooking with Anthropic and Rainier.2025-04-2447 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 77 - Are utilities overstating data center demand growth? Talking to Cathy Kunkel, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial AnalysisIn this episode, we talk to Cathy Kunkel, energy consultant at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, about a recent report she authored on the increased buildout of gas power plants and pipelines in the Southeast US, driven by the projected growth of data center load.2025-04-1728 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 76 - Start(ing) again in Portugal with Omer Wilson, Start CampusThe start campus data center project has big dreams, aiming to build a 1.2GW data center campus in Sines, Portugal. While things have progressed on the campus, its entanglement in the corruption probe that saw the Prime Minister resign and led to the arrest of several of Start’s executives including then CEO Afonso Salema caused some hiccups. With the charges now dropped (and a new CEO in place) and the first data center on the campus live, Start is back on the grind to see the project through to fruition. Omer Wilson, chief marketing off...2025-04-0335 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 75 - Data centers under the hammer with Julian Hennessy, Telehouse EuropeIn this episode, we talk to Julian Hennessy, projects director at Telehouse Europe, about the company’s most recent project in the London Docklands area. The Telehouse South facility was entirely retrofitted with a mission to strive for better sustainability. Julian explains the challenges and the benefits of retrofitting in the London data center landscape.2025-03-2025 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 74 - Spreading awareness of the data center industry with Carrie GoetzCarrie Goetz is the definition of an industry veteran. With decades of experience, she now works as a “fractional CTO” via her StrategITcom company, but over the years she has done a lot of outreach work to bring in new faces to the sector, not to mention the several books she has written. Tune in to hear about Goetz’ career so far, and her perspective on how we can bring in a new generation of data center obsessives 2025-03-0637 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowBonus Episode - The need for basic science research, with Vint CerfUS scientific research institutions are under attack. DOGE-led cuts to National Science Foundation funding, caps on indirect research costs, firings at the National Institutes of Health, layoffs at the Department of Energy, and more will profoundly weaken the US' scientific standing.But what does this mean for the country, for companies, and for the data center sector? We speak to the 'father of the Internet' Vint Cerf, co-developer of the TCP/IP protocol, about why the Internet had to come out of government-backed research, what he learned from his time at the National Science Board, and...2025-02-2729 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 73 - Understanding Stargate's Masayoshi Son, with Lionel BarberFrom visionary bets in Yahoo, Alibaba, and Arm, to disastrous gambles on WeWork and Vision Funds, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has defied both logic and expectations. Self-styled as a modern Genghis Khan, the once richest man in the world has rolled the dice yet again, plowing money into OpenAI and Stargate. What can we learn from his past? We talk to Lionel Barber, author of Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son.2025-02-2048 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 72 - Subsea cable resilience, security, and redundancy with Steve Roberts, Exa InfrastructureThis episode with Steve Roberts from Exa Infrastructure discusses the resilience, security, and redundancy of today’s subsea cables, particularly in the face of adversities such as wars and natural disasters.
Join us to discuss who should be investing, how the cable landscape is set to change in the coming years, and all things subsea.
2025-02-0629 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 71 - AI in Australia with Ben Crowe, VertivAustralia is seeing its data center market grow rapidly.
In this episode, we talk to Vertiv’s Ben Crowe about the trends they are seeing across the country, the impact that AI is having on the data center sector, and the role that the government can play in supporting the industry.
2025-01-2322 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowDCD Bali Bonus: Damon Lim, datacenterHawkRounding out our Bali event bonus content, we chat to Damon Lim, regional director for Asia Pacific at datacenterHawk2025-01-1022 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowDCD Bali Bonus: Sumit Mukhija, STT GDC IndiaAt our Bali event, we spoke to Sumit Mukhija, at the time the CEO of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres India2025-01-0925 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowDCD Bali Bonus: Darren Webb, Evolution Data CentersAt our Bali event, we spoke to Darren Webb, co-founder and CEO of SE Asian market-focused Evolution Data Centers2025-01-0812 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowDCD Bali Bonus: James Murphy, DC ByteAt our Bali 2024 event, we sit down with James Murphy, managing director, APAC, at DC Byte2025-01-0726 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowDCD Bali Bonus: Paul Dwyer, LOGOS GroupAt our Bali event, we chat to Paul Dwyer, Head of Data Centres at LOGOS Group2025-01-0620 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 70 - Using CFD to the max with Gordon Johnson, Subzero EngineeringComputational Fluid Dynamics has a very important role to play in data centers, but how does it work?
In this episode, we break down CFD with Subzero Engineering’s Gordon Johnson - the factors that need to be considered, its role in the data center, and the science behind it.2024-12-1330 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 69 - Diamonds are for semiconductors with Diamond Quanta CEO and founder Adam KhanWhile silicon is still the semiconductor king, alternative chip materials are increasingly being sought in order to find their successor and address some of the biggest challenges facing the chips of today.
In today’s episode of Zero Downtime, CEO and founder of Diamond Quanta, Adam Khan, discusses the benefits of diamond semiconductor technology, its applications, and the work Diamond Quanta is undertaking.2024-11-2833 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 68 - How cryogenic CMOS could solve the AI energy challenge, with Synopsys' Jamil Kawa and William Ruby
Earlier this year, Synopsys' R&D team developed a new model that allows design teams to create and test circuits at cryogenic temperatures.
In this episode, Jamil Kawa and William Ruby from Synopsys talk about the cryogenic CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors) research project and how it could support the development of low-power chips to help solve the worsening AI energy crisis.2024-11-1442 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 67 - Adapting to change, with Mark Kidd, Iron MountainIron Mountain was originally founded by a mushroom farmer in the 1950s. However, in the pivot of the century, the company launched a paper records storage service using the very mine that once housed mushroomsAs the world around them digitized, Iron Mountain had to adapt to change and eventually became the data center company we know today. However, they have still kept some of its underground mines. In this episode of Zero Downtime, we talk to Mark Kidd about Iron Mountain's evolution, and the lessons that can be learned by the data center industry.2024-11-0430 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 66 - Making a mark on India, with Surajit Chatterjee, CapitaLand InvestmentIndia’s data center industry is rapidly growing, and companies are taking notice.
Singapore-based CapitaLand Investment is currently developing major data centers throughout the country in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore. While these developments are running smoothly, building large data center campuses in any location is never simple.
We talk with managing director Surajit Chatterjee about the challenges and opportunities presented by India, its choices of location, development process, goals for sustainability and the investment company's future plans.2024-10-1832 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 65 - Connecting the land, the sea, and AI, with Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFXWhen Gil Santaliz first founded NJFX, he saw an opportunity to create an environment where data centers and cable landing stations could co-exist on the same campus.
But even he could not predict how the emergence of AI and Edge technology has changed and developed conventional cable landing stations for the better. We talk to NJFX about the history of NJFX, the importance of colocation cable landing stations, and the future of AI and subsea infrastructure. 2024-10-0328 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 64 - Iceotope's David Craig on retirement and life after data centersIceotope's David Craig returns to DCD Zero Downtime as he prepares to hand in his badge and gun. We talk what's next for Craig, and how he has seen the industry change and mature during his lengthy run.2024-09-1953 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 63 - Growing the workforce with Nabeel Mahmood, Nomad Futurist
We are all acutely aware that the data center industry has an aging, and thus thinning, workforce. But what can we do about it? In this episode, we talk to Nabeel Mahmood, managing director of Nomad Futurist - a non-profit dedicated to increasing awareness about the world of digital infrastructure - about how we can bring more people into the industry, especially those positioned at a disadvantage, be it because of a lack of resource, their location, or even society expectations.2024-09-0635 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 62 - Using data center heat to grow algae with Linda Lescuyer, Data4Data center operators are getting serious about waste heat and, more specifically, what to do with it.While the solution for many is to pump it back into nearby district heating systems, other companies are getting more creative and using warmth from servers to heat aquafarms and greenhouses.
European operator Data4 has joined a project which aims to demonstrate that waste heat from its data center can help to grow algae, which could in turn be used as biofuel. Linda Lescuyer, Data4’s innovation manager, joins us to explain how the project is taking shape. 2024-08-2230 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 61 - Data centers down under with David Hirst, Macquarie Data CentresData center markets vary wildly by location, and in this episode we head "down under" to the wonderful land of Australia.
With the AI boom in full across the globe, Australia is no different and experiencing increased demand.
We talk to David Hirst, who heads up Australia's Macquarie Data Centers, about the trends he is seeing in the country, how Macquarie is approaching AI, and the company's recent news, including its forthcoming IC3 Super West data center.2024-08-0826 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 60 - Verizon on preparing its network for natural disasters, with Mark Paff and Cory DavisDuring a natural disaster, networks often go down. This can massively impact rescue missions in some cases. The importance of network operators and the role they play in responding to unpredictable moments is something that should be highlighted.
We spoke to Verizon to see how it prepares its response to hurricanes and tornados, and find out the level of training required to support its efforts.2024-07-2538 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 59 - Entering the cloud market as a new player, with Cory Hawkvelt, CTO of NexGen CloudWith the cloud market already over-saturated, it is hard to imagine how a new company can make its mark. NexGen Cloud is seeking to do just that, with plans to build a sustainable cloud specializing in HPC and GPU infrastructure called "super cloud."
We talk about how NexGen is going to achieve this, the steps taken thus far and why the company thinks it is a solid competitor for some of the bigger players. 2024-07-1535 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 58 - Smarter energy and the future of Ireland’s power grid with Michael Phelan, GridBeyondSourcing adequate amounts of power to run new facilities is a problem that keeps even the most seasoned data center operators awake at night.
Many are looking at new technologies such as battery storage to help meet their power demands, but ensuring these assets operate efficiently can be a challenge.
Dublin-based GridBeyond thinks it can help by providing grid-connected battery technologies and management software to data centers and other clients across a range of industries. In this episode, Michael Phelan, founder and CEO of GridBeyond, talks about the challenges and opportunities presented by the clean e...2024-06-2726 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 57 - Precision cooling and political optimism, with David Craig, IceotopeWith AI dramatically driving up density, data center cooling is getting much more interesting.
Iceotope is one of the companies exploring the most efficient and sustainable way to cool down data centers - and their solution is precision cooling. On the face of it, precision cooling resembles immersion cooling - viscous liquid? Check. Bathtub-like container? Check.
But as CEO David Craig explains, it is actually a far more efficient solution. Beyond the world of liquid cooling, we talk about political optimism and how the next generation will hopefully help us all towards a greener world. 2024-06-1343 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 56 - Mushroom recycling with Joanne Rodriguez, MycocycleMushrooms can be used to build more than just toad-stools. In this episode, Joanne Rodriguez, CEO at Mycocycle, talks about using mycelium to break down data center construction waste and make new construction materials. Listen in to this fung-guide to the future of waste management.
2024-05-3033 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 55 - The half-life of nuclear data centers with Chris Lohse, Idaho National Laboratory
Nuclear power may have its detractors, but amid a growing capacity crunch data center operators are becoming increasingly interested in whether atoms can provide the electrons needed to power tomorrow's high-density facilities.
In this episode, Chris Lohse of the Idaho National Laboratory, talks about the recent innovations around nuclear power, the highs and lows of recent years, and what the future might hold for nuclear-powered data centers.2024-05-1644 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 54 - Industry-wide sustainability with John Booth, Carbon3ITSustainability needs to be applied at all levels of the data center industry, and we are not doing enough, says John Booth of Carbon3IT.
In this episode of Zero Downtime, we sit down with sustainability consultant John Booth to talk about how he got where he is in his career, and the fundamental sustainability issues that he is seeing in the data center industry.
We also talk about a past trip to Belarus that proved more exciting than expected. Tune in now for the latest episode.
2024-05-021h 00DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 53 - The UK data center market with Luisa Cardani, TechUKBringing the L to FLAP-D, the UK has a prominent data center market. But like all other tier-one markets, London is struggling with space and power capacity. Because of this, the UK's data center industry will have to diversify, all while meeting increasingly regimented regulations. In this episode, we talk to trade association TechUK's Luisa Cardani about what the UK's data center industry is currently experiencing, from upcoming rules and regulations to emerging new markets, to the association's role in influencing policy. 2024-04-1835 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 52 - Why Oxide rebuilt the rack from scratchOxide Computer has been rebuilding the rack. In this podcast, CTO Bryan Cantrill tells us why.
The data center industry has been building its own infrastructure for years, with the wrong components.
Servers weren't designed to be operated in data centers, and the 1U rack unit is the wrong size, because of simple science. Part of the success of the cloud is that it takes that integration away, and gives users an easily consumed set of virtual servers and elastic infrastructure. But it costs, and it has pushed users to renting something they would be bett...2024-04-041h 04DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 51 - Make way for bigger hard drives with B S Teh, CCO of SeagateThink hard drives have hit their storage limits, and should be replaced by solid-state units? You could be wrong.
Hard drives have been holding our data for nearly 70 years since IBM created the 350, which stored something like 4 Mbyte on dozens of spinning disks in a unit the size of a washing machine.
Today's devices are orders of magnitude better on every axis including price, capacity, size, and performance. But solid-state providers say it's time they moved over to make way for modern storage. Hard drives have been in a slump, but a new technique promises to d...2024-03-1428 min
The Backup Wrap-UpOVHCloud Dumpster Fire (Cloud Disasters)In this important episode of the Backup Wrap-up, W. Curtis Preston, AKA Mr. Backup, takes you on a deep dive into the shocking story of the OVHCloud data center fire of 2021. This catastrophic event left hundreds of customers scrambling to recover their precious data (often without backups), exposing the startling truth about OVHCloud's data center and backup practices and the devastating consequences of misplaced trust in cloud providers.As usual, Curtis is joined by co-host Prasanna Malaiyandi as they unravel the complex web of controversial decisions, legal battles, and hard lessons learned from this disastrous incident. They...2024-03-1136 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 50 - The fundamentals of quantum computing with Yuval Boger, QuEraIn this episode of Zero Downtime, we break down the fundamentals of quantum computing - the different approaches out there, the challenges to bringing it into a widespread commercial reality, and the potential use cases that quantum may help with.
To help divulge this, we speak to QuEra's Yuval Boger who shares a little about the company's experience with the technology, including how we can go about deploying quantum computers inside data centers.2024-02-2229 min
Not Your Father’s Data CenterThe Foundations of Digital Infrastructure with George RockettIn this engaging episode, Raymond Hawkins, the Chief Revenue Officer at Compass, is joined by George Rockett, the founder of DatacenterDynamics & Co-Founder of Yotta.George shares his journey from being a humble advertising salesperson to the inception of DatacenterDynamics magazine in 1998. Their conversation unfolds to cover the evolution of enterprise data centers, the burst of the .com bubble, and the concept of zero downtime. The historical context of data centers and the early days of technology are discussed, shedding light on the industry's development and perception over time.With some fantastic analogies, the episode delves...2024-02-2235 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 49 - How CDNs quietly took over the Internet, with Mark de Jong, CDN Alliance25 years ago, the first content delivery networks (CDNs) emerged, to solve a specific problem - how to make web pages load faster.
More than two decades later, 72 percent of Internet content is delivered through CDNs. But the companies involved are still almost invisible - until something goes wrong.
In 2021, in a series of outages, large numbers of unrelated websites all went out of action at the same time. It turned out that these sites had all come to rely on the same
CDNs, effectively installing a single point of failure for large sections of the Inte...2024-02-0839 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 48 - How to face up to regulations, with Venessa Moffat, EkkoSenseEurope has an Energy Efficiency Directive, Germany has an Energy Efficiency Act, and operators there can be fined for inefficiency.
Meanwhile, Amsterdam has declared war on sleeping servers, and set limits on where facilities can be built. Across Europe, in response to congested electric grids and shortages of land, local governments are stepping in to regulate data centers.
Sometimes they want them to be greener, sometimes they want them to be quieter, and sometimes they just want them somewhere else. But any data center operator now has to be prepared to meet new reporting requirements and...2024-01-2531 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 47 - Hydrogen data centers get real, with Yuval Bachar, ECLAt the start of 2023, Yuval Bachar told us about his latest project - to build off-grid, hydrogen-powered data centers. As 2023 came to an end, he was back to tell us he'd done it.
He's got 1MW of capacity fed by hydrogen in Mountain View California, and he's telling potential customers he can build the same thing anywhere you can get hydrogen shipped by pipe or tanker.
He's keen on the benefits. No long waits for power distribution, no struggles getting permits for diesel. And the building is quick and cheap too. He can make them wi...2024-01-1137 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 46 - Telecoms in troubling times with Ineke Botter
Ever wonder what it would be like to be a CEO at a telecom company in a country that is at war?That’s been the reality on a couple of occasions for Ineke Botter, who has headed telecom companies in Kosovo and Lebanon. Her career has taken across Europe and beyond, spanning more than 30 years. She’s even worked in the data center industry too. Listen to find out more about Ineke’s incredible journey into telecoms.2023-12-1454 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 45 - Construction and resilience amid power instability with Neal Kalita, NTT GDCThe European data center market has a forecasted take-up of 440MW for 2023. But within the context of erratic power availability, moratoriums, and the need to move to renewable energy, the FLAP-D markets are facing several challenges.
In this episode we talk to Neal Kalita about the obstacles facing those looking to build in Europe, and what the future holds for the region.
Tune in for the conversation where we find the solution to keeping up with the pace of demand while prioritizing sustainability. 2023-11-3047 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 44 - Data centers going nuclear, with Tony Grayson, Compass DatacentersData centers need to be more sustainable, but finding consistent and powerful energy resources can be a challenge.
Increasingly, we are seeing nuclear entering the conversation, in the form of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). But these aren't without their own controversies.
In this episode, we talk with Compass Datacenters' Tony Grayson to discuss the future of SMRs, the challenges and opportunities, and the role we can expect them to play in the world of data centers. 2023-11-1654 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 43 - Energy use and AI with Alex de Vries, DigiconomistArtificial intelligence could grow from almost nothing to using half a percent of the world's electrical power within five years, according to Alex de Vries of Digiconomist.
That's a crazy rate of growth, but it's not unprecedented. Bitcoin followed almost exactly the same trajectory, expanding from nothing to a sector whose energy use is comparable with that of regular data centers. But the similarities end there, says de Vries, who provided the reliable tracking data for the growth of Bitcoin, and is ready to do the same for AI.
A year ago, he talked us th...2023-11-0254 min
The QTS ExperienceEpisode 181; Sebastian Moss: The Stories of the Data Center IndustryThis week we are joined by Sebastian Moss, Editor-in-Chief and publisher at DatacenterDynamics, one of the industry’s leading voices in all things Digital Infrastructure. Sebastian discusses how he and his team bring the stories of the Digital infrastructure world to us. Listen in, on the next QTS Experience Podcast.
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2023-10-2555 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 42 - The irrepressible Bill KleymanWe talk to Bill Kleyman, now at machine learning company Neu.ro, about his lengthy data center career. How did he get into the sector, what did he learn at Switch, and how does he balance life and travel? Tune in to find out.
2023-10-1958 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 41 - Do data centers truly bring economic benefits to their location? With Max Schulze, SDIAData centers have outgrown their anonymity. They are large enough consumers of energy and space, that they have to enter the political landscape and justify their existence. But how do we know if a data really brings benefits to its location?
In some places (like London), it appears that they soak up grid connection capacity and block housing projects. In others (like Denmark and Ireland) they use renewable energy and jeopardize local decarbonization targets.
It's not easy to know the net benefits brought by a data center, because much of what it does is in th...2023-09-2831 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 40 - Plenty of submarine cables in the sea with Elena Badiola, Exa InfrastructureEver wondered about the practical challenges of connecting our continents?
In this podcast episode, we talk with Exa Infrastructure's Elena Badiola about the process of getting subsea cables underwater: from environmental surveys to climate change, to funding challenges.
Elena also shares her experience of living on a cable ship for five weeks after an earthquake caused an outage - and how a military coup almost stopped her from getting back home.2023-09-1437 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 39 - How will we start to use hydrogen? With Mark MonroeIn 2022, Mark Monroe's podcast about hydrogen was one of our most popular podcasts ever.
At Microsoft, Mark had just made a prototype hydrogen fuel cell UPS system that could potentially replace diesel generators to provide low-carbon backup power at data centers. One year on, he's back for some more detail.
A hydrogen economy will need a distribution system - but will that look like a power network, a gas grid, or a system of trucks?
Data centers won't be the first big users of hydrogen: Mark tells us where it will take off.
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That's what Hunter Vaughan and Nicole Starosielski found, through their involvement in a project to make subsea cables sustainable. Words like "sustainability" and "climate neutral" can mean different things, depending on who is talking. And if what you say is vague, then your efforts to be sustainable can get misdirected, or diverted into greenwash, or simply end up (like the words) meaningless.
Hunter Vaughan of the University of Cambridge and Nicole Starosielski of the University of California, Berkeley are...2023-08-1731 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 37 - Actions speak louder than code with Anne Currie, Green Software FoundationIf you think transitioning the tech sector to net zero is all about renewable energy and heat reuse, think again. Small changes in software could make entire data centers redundant - for a much bigger saving for the planet.
Green Software is not just about more efficient code, says Anne Currie. Rewriting everything in C might cut energy use - but it would destroy your company.
As a leader in the Green Software Foundation, and a seasoned green developer and entrepreneur, Anne has much better ideas. She is working with Sarah Hsu and Sara Bergman, on Buil...2023-07-3136 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 36 - Developing Internet protocols with Mirjam Kuhe, RIPEHow does the Internet keep running? A close-knit community of engineers has been developing and supporting the protocols that support it for more than forty years.
During that time, new Internet services have emerged and scaled beyond recognition, and new features have been added, all without breaking the whole system.
Mirjam Kuhne has been closely involved with this for 20 years, and in 2020 became chair of the European forum for Internet development - RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens, French for "European IP Networks").
Since then, Internet services have become crucial to the continued operati...2023-07-1236 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 35 - Taking inspiration from the GSMA in a push to drive the broadband industry with Martin CreanerThe global interests of the mobile industry are represented by the GSM Association (GSMA).
This governing body was established in 1995 to support mobile operators using the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard for cellular networks.
It has become synonymous with the mobile industry and has driven it forward through industry programs, working groups, and initiatives.
The GSMA’s legacy has even inspired something similar but for broadband instead, with Martin Creaner, director general of the Worldwide Broadband Association (WBBA) seeking to use this model.
Can the GSMA’s model be replicat...2023-06-2936 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 34 - When will quantum computers reach the data center? We talk to Chris Monroe, IonQQuantum computing is still pretty mysterious, but data center operators have real questions: when will they need installation and support? And how much cooling will they need?
Chris Monroe, chief scientist at IonQ, gives us the answers, along with plenty of other solid facts about an emerging technology that can seem as illusory as Schrodinger's cat.
It turns out that quantum computing is reaching a point where lots of us could soon start to use it. The market may have to choose from an array of different kinds of quantum bits (or "qubits"), but it is...2023-06-1531 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 33 - Empowering women in tech with Kelley Mullick, IceotopeThere has been an ongoing issue with the representation of women in the tech industry, but why?
In this episode, we talk to Kelley Mullick about her career to date, the factors that have helped her get to where she is, and the importance of supporting and empowering women to pursue these careers so they can find confidence within themselves.
We also talk a little about her recent job change from Intel to vice president of technology advancement and alliances at Iceotope - what drew her to the company and why she thinks precision liquid...2023-06-0131 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 32 - Underground data centers with Andrew Bourget, EccusHaving trouble finding a location for your data center project? This DCD podcast could have the answer. Build underground.
Andrew Bourget of Swiss engineering firm Eccus has a design for a 2MW data center built in an underground tunnel - and he can dig that tunnel wherever you want it, even under existing buildings.
The way he tells it, tunneling is the future. There's no planning permission required, and you can build under your existing facility. You can migrate underground, and still have your above-ground space available for offices or to rent out. Is he ser...2023-05-1828 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 31 - Mark Bjornsgaard of Deep Green on heating swimming pools with data center heatIn March this year, a swimming pool in Devon, UK, was the unlikely setting for the most widely covered data center story (so far) of 2023.
A small immersion-cooled high-performance computing module from Deep Green is giving its heat to the swimming pool, saving Exmouth Leisure Centres £20,000 ($24,000) per year.
It's not the first time data center waste heat has been harnessed. It's not even the first time it has heated a swimming pool. But Deep Green CEO Mark Bjornsgaard tells us that, this time, all the pieces are in place to make the idea mainstream.
In...2023-05-0440 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 30 - The state of cloud gaming and VR with Omdia's George JijiashviliCloud gaming was heralded as the future of games, and was set to become a major data center workload. Now, after the death of Google Stadia and layoffs at Amazon's Luna, what's left for data center gaming? We catch up with Omdia's George Jijiashvili to discuss all things gaming, as well as VR, AR, and a dash of the metaverse.
2023-04-2057 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 29 - The nuclear energy silver bullet with Tony Grayson, Compass Data Centers and Alan Howard, OMDIAAs 2030 approaches, the pressure on data centers to meet their carbon pledges continues to increase. This, compounded with the challenge of energy supply insecurity and rising costs, is driving data centers to look to new methods of powering their operations, which has triggered nuclear power to come to the fore. However, as a result of historical disasters as well as the upfront costs, there is hesitancy in the data center industry to make the move to nuclear.
This podcast will take a deep dive into the future of nuclear in the data center market, and explore how...2023-04-0646 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 28 - The future of hyperscale networking, with Juniper Networks' Mike BushongAs data center demands grow, hyperscalers are building out vast networks that will help define the future of how infrastructure is interconnected. In the latest episode of the DCD Zero Downtime podcast, we connect with Juniper Networks' group vice president of cloud-ready data center, Mike Bushong, to discuss what this means, and what we should expect next. Plus we discuss AI, silicon photonics, telecoms, the race to 800G, and more.
2023-03-2445 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 27 - The 2G and 3G switch-off and what it means for 5G and IoT with Wireless Logic Group CPO, Paul BullockRecently there’s been a number of mobile operators switching off their 3G networks around the world, or scheduling to phase out this old technology.
2G has also been spoken about at length, but has a slightly longer shelf-life than 3G, as it provides a backbone that still supports the IoT industry today.
But what does any of this mean, and why does it matter? Well, Wireless Logic Group Chief Product Officer Paul Bullock explains why the need to switch off 3G is necessary for the future of 5G.
It’s not just 5G, h...2023-03-0922 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 26 - There's something about Maryland, with Quantum Loophole CEO Josh SnowhornAs land and power in Virginia's Loudoun County become increasingly scarce, data center developers are seeking fresh ground on which build. While many are moving south within Virginia to the likes of Prince William County, Quantum Loophole is hoping to lure companies north into Maryland.
A former aluminum smelting works, the company's maiden campus is reportedly luring cloud companies and the hyperscale developers serving them on a huge scale.
CEO Josh Snowhorn talks us through the company's history and its 2,000+acre gigawatt project located just north from Loudoun across the Potomac river.2023-02-2347 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 25 - Meeting the pioneer of Meet-me rooms with Hunter NewbyHunter Newby doesn't claim to have invented the Meet-Me Room, but he created one of the first, in the iconic and historical Manhattan facility, 60 Hudson Street, in about 1998
At the time data centers had separate connections from multiple carriers, and linking between those carriers meant running a link between their connection points - and paying them heavily. Hunter set up a room where the networks all met up for physical (layer 0) connections - and the rest is history.
It's a well-documented history because he went on to write a series of magazine articles "Meet Me...2023-02-0945 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 24 - Immerse yourself in liquid cooling with NAAT CTO Julius NeudorferJoin us for an extended discussion with CTO and founder of North American Access Technologies Julius Neudorfer about the history of liquid cooling, and where he sees the market developing in the future.2023-01-2647 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 23 - Exploring the Edge with AtlasEdge COO Zahl LimbuwalaFormed by DigitalBridge and Liberty Global, AtlasEdge has quickly become one of the Edge industry's largest players. We chat to COO Zahl Limbuwala about how it defines the Edge and where it places its servers.2023-01-1229 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 22 - Understanding IT Efficiency with Rich Kenny, Interact managing directorFor years, operators have been trying to make their data centers more efficient by optimizing the cooling and power distribution in the facility - and have more or less ignored the IT equipment in the racks.
PUE - the most popular data center metric - simply optimized the ancillary equipment, trying to approach a "perfect" figure of 1.0, where all the power goes into the rack.
But what if you could measure the power used by your IT equipment, run comparative tests, and find out how to reconfigure, replace or update your hardware to improve energy ef...2022-12-1531 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 21 - How to handle an outage, with Cloudflare CTO John Graham-CummingIn this episode, we talk to Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming about how to respond to an outage at your company. We also discuss why the company bans the use of the word "Edge," and talk about the company's 'Supercloud.'2022-12-0128 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 20 - Talking photonic computing with Lightmatter CEO Nick HarrisCan light be used to compute? We talk to Nick Harris, CEO of chip startup Lightmatter, about how the company hopes to harness photons for AI computing and as a data center interconnect.2022-11-1530 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 19 - Bits and bricks with Digital Realty CTO Chris SharpWhat does a technologist do at a real estate company? We talk to Digital Realty's CTO Chris Sharp about the importance of understanding both bits and bricks, discuss the company's interconnection efforts, and do a quickfire round on which future technologies will transform the data center.2022-11-0137 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 18 - The origin of the Internet of Things with Peter LewisMost people think the Internet of Things is a recent idea, maybe dating to around the year 2000. In fact, the idea is some 15 years older than that.
In 1985, the Internet was officially two years old. It linked up some 2000 hosts, and a handful of people used email. In that year, cellular phones were the size of bricks, and almost no one had one. And yet, in 1985, Peter T Lewis predicted the two could be combined, so devices could communicate over wireless links.
"I predict that not only humans, but machines and other things will interactively comm...2022-10-1344 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 17 - The impact of climate legislation on digital infrastructure with Stephen Harper, global director of IntelAfter a hiatus of several years, climate change policy is taking off in the US, with the Biden-Harris Administration using the Inflation Reduction Act and the Energy Earthshot to accelerate the clean energy economy.
But data center energy policy goes back a lot further than that. Stephen Harper, Intel's Global Director, Environment and Energy Policy, was there 20 years ago when data centers first came onto the climate change radar, and he's been tracking progress since then.
As well as their own emissions "footprint", data centers have a positive impact on emissions elsewhere, known as the...2022-09-2936 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 16 - Green software with David Mytton, CEO and co-founder of ConsoleEfforts to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world tend to start with the cooling systems at data centers, and rarely get any further.
The tech industry created PUE as a simple metric which could express how efficiently power is delivered to the racks, but did not consider what happens to that power when it gets there.
That’s not good enough, because poorly written software could be wasting that power in unnecessary loops and fruitless calculations.
The Green Software Foundation has emerged to propose a measure of Software Carbon Intensity that wi...2022-09-1536 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 15 - Tracking data center power use with LBNL's Dr. Arman ShehabiAs grids around the world struggle to meet demand amid heatwaves and wars, data center power and water usage is increasingly coming under scrutiny. We talk to the researcher who has spent years trying to track the sector's consumption, so that regulators and companies alike can access accurate figures on a secretive sector.2022-09-0148 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 14 - Building facilities for Google with Sarah GodbehereWhat's it like building facilities for Google, in the epicenter of data center construction - Northern Virginia? Sarah Godbehere has spent the last three years managing construction on a Google campus in Northern Virginia. She tells us what it's like to be a young woman in an industry full of older men, and shares how she turns potential conflicts by asking the right questions.2022-08-1832 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 13 - Carbon accounting and 24x7 green energy with Simone Accornero, FlexiDAOWhen a data center firm claims to be 100 percent carbon neutral, can we believe them? Does every electron used in that data come from a solar panel or a wind farm? Until we have reliable carbon accounting, we won't know for sure, and operators will continue to rely on renewable energy certificates (RECs) which match energy consumption over a year, instead of hour by hour.
Simone Accornero, CEO of FlexiDAO says we need "RECs on steroids" to move to hourly carbon accounting, and a blockchain-based protocol can deliver this without costing the earth in energy overheads.
Da...2022-08-0435 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 12 - Sustainability-linked financing and data centers, with Aligned’s Matthew ChamblissAs sustainability continues to become an increasingly important issue for data center owners and operators, many are tying their financing into ESG-related goals. The likes of Green Bonds see proceeds going towards specific green projects, while Sustainability-Linked Loans see interest payments tied to specific targets such as PUE or water use.
Such financing options have been adopted by cloud and data center companies including Equinix, Digital Realty, Atos, Baidu, AirTrunk, and telcos such as Telefonica, NTT, and Verizon.
US operator Aligned’s whole debt pile – more than $3billion – is entirely made up of sustainable-tied financing. Aligned’s...2022-07-2140 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 11 - Understanding Bitcoin power use after the crypto crash, with Alex de VriesCryptocurrency valuations are in freefall, causing mining to halve. But Bitcoin still consumes as much power as entire nations, amid a climate emergency. We talk to Digiconomist's Alex de Vries about the history of crypto, the crash, and learn just how much power the sector uses - and what it means for the planet.2022-07-071h 01
DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 10 - Alex Cruz Farmer on the experience of working during lockdownWorking from home expanded massively during the pandemic - but were we ready for such a massive change? The proportion of remote workers grew from 17% of all employees worldwide in 2019 to 32% but the companies weren't fully ready for the change and collaboration tools were often pushed beyond what they were designed for.
Alex Cruz Farmer of Cisco ThousandEyes has the tools to look objectively at the user experience and talks to us about how we can improve it.2022-06-2331 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 9 - Hydrogen with Mark Monroe, MicrosoftThe world needs hydrogen as part of the replacement for fossil fuels - and data centers could be the catalyst for that.
Mark Monroe, Principal Engineer at Microsoft, explains how the hydrogen economy works. He shows us that hydrogen is not just a proven alternative to diesel for backup, but brings other benefits with it.
If data centers switch this small part of their energy needs to hydrogen, this could enable much larger industries to get started - and catalyze a hydrogen economy2022-06-0936 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 8 - The data center gender gap with Jacqueline van de Werken, LeasewebIn this episode of the Zero Downtime podcast, we speak to Leaseweb general counsel Jacqueline van de Werken about how to encourage more women in the data center and cloud industry, and how to retain those that do join.2022-05-1246 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 7 - Biodiversity & bees with Michelle Wallace, Host in IrelandIt's easy to think that sustainable data centers are all about reducing carbon. In fact the earth faces a biodiversity crisis as big as the climate crisis. Data centers can have a role in fighting to prevent extinctions, and produce a lot of other benefits in the process.
When you build a data center, you have to see the unintended consequences, says Michelle Wallace of data center promotion group Host In Ireland. Build badly, and local species will suffer. But it's also easy to get it wrong, to put in measures that don't help.
Host...2022-04-2833 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 6 - Astrid Wynne Rogers, TechBuyerData center operators who want to be sustainable tend to focus in on carbon - but there are a lot more elements in the Periodic Table, And as we progress towards sustainability, we are going to have to consider all of them.
In this podcast, Astrid Wynne Rogers, sustainability lead at TechBuyer tells us why we should pay close attention to the lifecycle of our physical servers and the other equipment in our facilities.
It takes a lot of materials and energy to make equipment, and keeping it out of the waste stream could avoid...2022-04-0739 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 5 - Holland Barry, CyxteraCTOs have traditionally been key positions for research-driven software and technology companies. As colocation companies increasingly move beyond merely serving space and power, the role of the CTO becomes more important.
Holland Barry, Field CTO for Cyxtera, discusses the role of the CTO and Field CTO at the company, the key skills required, and some of the interesting projects the company is working on.
We also discuss the wider skills market and the shift from ‘dumb colo’ to service provider, and get a boots on the ground view of Cyxtera’s journey to becoming a public...2022-03-2443 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowBonus Episode: Understanding Internet Connectivity in Ukraine & Russia, with Kentik's Doug MadoryDCD's Sebastian Moss talks to Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Kentik, about the developing situation in Ukraine and Russia. We discuss telco disruptions, misinformation, false BGP hijacks, Cogent and Lumen's disconnection claims, whether Russia could drop off from the Internet, and more.2022-03-1155 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 4 - Wes Swenson, Novva Data CentersData center automation is one thing, but what about automatons walking in the data halls? Robots in the data center are often discussed but rarely make it beyond the pilot project stage. Those that are deployed are often closer to Short Circuit’s Johnny 5 than Neill Blomkamp's CHAPPiE.
Utah-based Novva data centers has deployed Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog – possibly the most advanced robot that is currently commercially available – at its flagship data center and is looking to create a replicable and scalable model for deploying robots in its other current and future facilities. DCD discusses the pains...2022-03-1043 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 3 - Anders Andrae, Huawei TechnologiesFigures quoted in 2021 suggested that data centers and communications technology could use eight percent or even 20 percent of the world's electricity by 2030. That seemed too high to us, so we tracked down the original source of the quotes, only to find he feels the same way. Anders Andrae is an academic, currently working at Huawei's Swedish R&D center. Since his original 2015 paper he has revised his predictions down, but the old figures still often show up out of context. More importantly, he thinks we should be looking at the benefits of IT as well as the energy cost. He...2022-02-2439 minDCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 2 - Max Schulze, the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure AllianceData centers are about as efficient as they ever can be, in terms of delivering power to servers and keeping them cool, so what's the next step to sustainable digital infrastructure? There is a lot of talk about reusing the wasted heat that facilities produce, but this seems like a hard job when all too often they can't give it away for free.
Max Schulze is the founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA), a group of stakeholders aiming to achieve a sustainable digital infrastructure by 2030. He thinks the answer to heat reuse is economics, not e...2022-02-1034 min
DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 1 - Lex Coors, InterxionIn the first episode of the Zero Downtime podcast, we sit down with Lex Coors, winner of DCD's 2021 Outstanding Contribution to the Industry award and Chief Data Center Technology & Engineering Officer for Interxion.
We spoke to Lex about his two decades at the company, from the early days, to the rise of cloud, and the recent Digital Realty acquisition. We also discussed sustainability efforts, the European energy crisis, and how to ensure that local communities don't turn against data centers.2022-01-2548 min
The Interxchange PodcastE27: Industry Predictions and Trends- with Peter Judge, Global Editor at DatacenterDynamicsPeter Judge, Global Editor at DatacenterDynamics, joins the program to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry, and reveals predictions and trends heading into 2021. 2020-11-2429 min
Not Your Father’s Data CenterAdventures in Technology with DCD’s Peter Judge (Part 2)In the second half of a two-part discussion on technology, Peter Judge, Global Editor for DatacenterDynamics, and host Raymond Hawkins turned their attention on the data center industry, the impact technology advancements have on it and the evolving role of the DatacenterDynamics’ publication.
One of the cornerstones of DatacenterDynamics’ success is its events, which they’ve done for years and utilize to bring the data center community together.
But the pandemic changed all that, and live events planned for 2020 have turned into all-digital formats.
“Once we got the hang of the fact that we could do these...2020-09-0328 min