The cloud goliath takes its first steps towards a diesel-free future

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

As freshwater supplies dwindle, data centers need to look elsewhere

Edge facilities will be built in hostile environments. If you open them without due care, you could destroy the whole business model, warns ASHRAE

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

Data centers create emissions before they are built. It’s time to address the footprint of basic building materials

We can’t just wait for the energy market to improve on its own

A new supercomputer is using Tesla batteries to stay online, but the implementation is more complex than you might think

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

How Bluebird Network got a data center - and how it expanded

Enhancing your resiliency by islanding your power grid

The secret to unleashing more computer power for very little energy cost could be in the laws of thermodynamics

What can data center operators learn from Google when it comes to renewable energy?

Data centers adapted and - mostly - thrived in the pandemic

An EU project hopes to rebuild the world in virtual space, but the concrete challenges may prove a little too real

Rangu Salgame of Princeton Digital Group (PDG) shares his plans for Asia Pacific expansion

To build in cities, data centers need to become a part of cities. That means looking nicer, and helping out the grid

For years, remote management has been a good idea for data centers. Now it has become a necessity

As we settle in for the long haul, here’s what networks can expect from the pandemic age

Innovations and strategies to go green in Asia

They’re getting bigger, so defenses need to keep getting better

“We spent the better part of the year trying to come up with solutions to having a significant amount of debt,” Michael Sicoli tells DCD

For energy guzzling colocation and cloud providers, the only viable long-term solution to go green is a switch to renewables

Abandoned properties are being turned into data centers

The shell of NTT's new London data center is, frankly, hard to miss

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

Smart cities promise massive improvements in efficiency. To deliver, they will have to intelligently combine Edge resources with the cloud

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