Deployment of direct liquid cooling (DLC, as cold plate or immersion systems) remains overwhelmingly concentrated in applications where air cooling is no longer a practical
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As emissions soar, operators look to carbon capture
During 2024 and 2025, a new trend emerged: many large data center builders and operators reported increases in their Scope 2, location- and market-based greenhouse
AI in data: sorting reality from hallucination
Many people do not use the term artificial intelligence correctly: vendors, investors, and even some operators label everything from basic automation scripts to deep learning
AI and cooling: toward more automation
AI is increasingly steering the data center industry toward new operational practices, where automation, analytics and adaptive control are paving the way for “dark” —
AI’s growth calls for useful IT efficiency metrics
The digital infrastructure industry is under pressure to measure and improve the energy efficiency of the computing work that underpins digital services. Enterprises seek to
AI power fluctuations strain both budgets and hardware
AI training at scale introduces power consumption patterns that can strain both server hardware and supporting power systems, shortening equipment lifespans and increasing the total
Retail vs wholesale: finding the right colo pricing model
Colocation providers may offer two pricing and packaging models to sell similar products and capabilities. In both models, customers purchase space, power and services. However,
Electrical considerations with large AI compute
The training of large generative AI models is a special case of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. This is not simply due to the reliance on
Is this the data center metric for the 2030s?
When the PUE metric was first proposed and adopted at a Green Grid meeting in California in 2008, few could have forecast how important this
Crypto mines are turning into AI factories
The pursuit of training ever-larger generative AI models has necessitated the creation of a new class of specialized data centers — facilities that have more