data center news

IT-agnostic DLC systems: key considerations

Although adoption of direct liquid cooling (DLC) has received an unexpected boost from dense AI computing, practices around how to…

1 week ago

Survey findings link higher redundancy to lower outage risk

To most data center operators, the benefit of redundant power and cooling systems is self-evident. Additional systems provide a backup…

4 weeks ago

Preventing skill decay as AI use expands

Although many data center operators remain optimistic about the use of AI tools in operations, expectations of AI’s ability to…

2 months ago

Data centers face new scrutiny over heat island effect

Opposition to data center developments has been spreading due to local issues such as rising electricity prices, noise pollution, water…

3 months ago

Lower density brings server efficiency and cooling gains

For many years — well before AI compute’s “big bang” in late 2022 — the data center industry has been…

3 months ago

Advances in fine-tuning reduce total volume of AI training

In the early days of generative AI, much attention was focused on the process of training new models from zero.…

4 months ago

Investments back two-phase cooling as water cold plate successor

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) has attracted significant investment over the past two years, driven largely by the massive buildout of…

4 months ago

US data center critics pivot from moratoria to regulations

In April 2026, the US state of Maine’s governor vetoed a state-level data center moratorium bill, the latest in a…

5 months ago

Enterprises will deploy inference in-house — if they can

The development of large language models (LLMs) is a complex process, requiring specialized infrastructure and skills, as well as the…

5 months ago

Capacity allocation and the next generation of AI-era KPIs

AI workloads are reshaping data center infrastructure at an unprecedented scale. Rack densities exceeding 50 kW are becoming increasingly common.…

6 months ago