4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (347+ words) Data centers provide the environments where compute runs; telcos deliver the networks that connect them. Here’s how the two ecosystems diverge and overlap. A data center is a facility purpose-built to house IT equipment. Facilities range from hyperscale campuses with…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (485+ words) Data center GPUs physically last 5+ years, but economic replacement cycles are 2-4 years due to rapid performance gains. Resale or GPU-as-a-Service models help maximize value. These questions are central to long-term capacity planning – not to mention getting ahead of the e-waste…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (664+ words) While alternatives to evaporative cooling exist, most data centers don’t adopt them because the economics currently don’t justify the higher capital costs and operational complexity. In public debates about data centers, one of the loudest objections is that they drain…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1062+ words) OpenAI is adding an energy-technology role as it expands flexible-load, generation and storage strategies across its growing AI data center portfolio. OpenAI is moving energy planning inside its data center development organization, signaling that power technologies and flexible computing are…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1168+ words) AI workloads push data center rack densities beyond the limits of air cooling. Three liquid cooling approaches offer different trade-offs and benefits. As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) drive up server power densities, data centers are turning to liquid cooling…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (452+ words) Data center buildouts are booming in 2026, but challenges like power, labor, and community concerns demand innovation and collaboration. Data center construction remains the defining infrastructure story of 2026. In a broader construction market showing signs of softness, digital infrastructure is a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (672+ words) AI infrastructure spending is forecast to push global data center capex beyond $3 trillion by 2030, driven by hyperscalers and AI-specialized clouds. Worldwide data center capital spending is projected to surpass $3 trillion by 2030 as hyperscalers, sovereign AI programs, and specialized cloud providers…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (679+ words) As AI clusters scale, network silicon becomes the bottleneck. Here’s a look at Cisco’s Silicon One G300 and P200, alongside Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 and Nvidia’s Spectrum-6. “In AI data centers, the network is becoming a primary determinant of cluster efficiency,” said Sameh Boujelbene,…...