Whether strawberries, cabbage, or cannabis, indoor farms are increasing in number. Will they soon start competing for the same space and power as data centers?

A land-based farm has finally produced plate-sized lobsters- thanks to a data center

Build near a complementary industry, and a data center can go from a liability to an environmental asset

Founder PS Lee believes that liquid cooling is the answer for tropical data center hubs such as Singapore and upcoming markets such as Indonesia

Thermal management is emerging as one of the most promising applications of AI

Re-using waste heat from servers is not a new idea, but it remains mired in challenges

Global leaders guide us through their answers, from a re-balancing of CAPEX to OPEX, to the increased role of plastic and tech to alleviate water consumption concerns

Keeping your qubits stable requires some of the most extreme cooling equipment around

DCD exclusive: Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment employed wave energy and post-quantum cryptography on the seabed off Scotland. But the big lessons could be learnt on land

Data centers include a massive amount of electrical devices, powered by buses and cables. Let’s look at moves to simplify that

Microsoft ran 10 racks on a hydrogen fuel cell for 48 hours. Here’s what comes next

Data center power consumption is costly - but servers are getting more efficient

There comes a point when water should be prioritized over air, but the question is when?

One degree warmer, and you might save three percent of your power

A sixfold increase in compute led to energy demands rising just six percent

We head to Sweden to watch data turn into pellets

You might expect the physical design of data center hardware to be pretty standard by now. Don’t be so sure…

MacStadium runs Apple hardware in its data centers. That’s a surprisingly sensible thing to do

Controlling failure rates and temperatures with AI

Machine learning will increase the demands on data center performance, leading to new ways to cool and power the systems there

Twenty years ago, the public Internet took off in AOL’s Dulles Technology Center. Now the building is coming back into play, ready for the 21st century

We all know Intel for its chips, but perhaps we should be paying more attention to its data centers

Finding fresh talent to operate data centers is tough enough, and the industry is growing fast

How Google, Amazon and Microsoft create the illusion of infinite capacity

Look to the skies for an innovative approach to cooling

European regulations are phasing out certain refrigerants, with major effects on data center cooling

Fears over climate change and rising power densities led supercomputing designers to adopt hot water cooling

Thanks to its demographics, its energy grids, and its politics, Europe is getting ahead on energy efficiency