Data center growth is facing widespread local and international backlash due to concerns about energy use, water consumption, noise, and land impacts, leading to moratoriums, tighter regulations, and zoning restrictions.  

Faster delivery methods - preplanning and delivering shells helps even as designs and use details emerge later.

Have a happy & healthy International Data Center Day (March 26)!

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Awards season 2025

AI progress and hurdles

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Data Center announcements - newly operational & new $B+ campuses

Digital Twins with AI developing quickly

BlackRock carbon capture to take aim at CO2 industrial emissions

Data center Mythbusting: 24/7 generators; elec grid vampires; no jobs

Golf steals more water than data centers (about 44 times more) in the U.S. 

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Sustainability: Water, Energy, & AI gold rush; cyclical economy & recycling

DC Developments: Expansion everywhere - powered land becomes a project; NIMBY & regulatory push-back

Technology Impacts: AI for AI, diverse IT hardware, and prepping for what is next with flexibility

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Meta DC in northeast LA: 4M sqft, infrastructure and build increases in a rural area

AI testing of scripts for fun: good, better, best from the major brands

Northern VA power demand up from 21GW to 40GW since July 2024

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Awards season 2024: iMasons & DCD sustainability and environmental impact
New AI data center design by AWS & new Meta AI data center in Louisiana 

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Nuclear options to satiate power demand?
Infrastructure Usage Effectiveness 
The billion+ $$$ mergers and acquisitions continue

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AI power use comparisons
Sage Geosystems & Meta make a deal for 150MW of geothermal energy
Tract acquires 2k+ acres, 1.8GW near Phoenix, AZ
AirTruck bidding at $13.5B (USD)

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Tesla xAI data center in Memphis
Reviewing Google's year-over-year sustainability efforts & report
iMasons Climate Accord committee requests all vendors provide Scope 3 verified data
AI benefits for sustainability, climate, energy and more. 

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Data center with liquid cooling... in a house
Revisiting fuel cell viability as big, green hydrogen centers come online
Why liquid cooling is still ramping up across the industry
Achieving success in the data center industry

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A book recommendation: Data Center Handbook [Geng, et al.]
Interviews & Resume preparation
AI & power demand: paths ahead and lessons from NoVA
AI in the data center

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• AI & data center cooling - ARPA-E initiatives
• Direct Current Power to support AI deployments
• Science Based Targets guidelines released for the building industry

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Powerhouse and AWS make moves and investments
Meta deeper dive: Indiana site shows new design, OCP v3 rack, & AI

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2023: AI changes the data center; Large developers & investments; 
Sustainability surges
2024: AI improves itself; Sustainability as a Strategy (the new SaaS definition)

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AI boom
Updates in the industry 
Awards season 2023: DCD & iMasons

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iMasons awards
DCD awards finalists
Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments
Water Usage Effectiveness
Power & Grid Hardening

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1 year of the Green Data Center Podcast
RadiusDC and IPI
Carbon counting discussion from JLL forum & iMasons 
Fuel Cells - hydrogen & natural gas
Power constraints in the major data center markets 
Total data center industry market value - now to 2030

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Twitter goes down in California heat wave;
Recruiting the next generation
Etherium finally switches over to Proof of Stake

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International Energy Agency on global data center energy use
Economy, tech firms, and data center jobs
Flexential in the news
Data center growth
Heat waves in the UK and California

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Touching on some of the developments in major markets, including Columbus Ohio, Northern Virginia, and Philadelphia area; 
Data centers (racks) in space... truly lights out, hands off

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This episode focuses on the data halls (aka IT room, white space, red zone, etc.) and some of the different types and aspects for those who may not have walked through many data centers yet.  
Data Center Cleaning
Data Hall Commissioning 

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China Standard 
Riot Blockchain makes more from power sales
Latin America - Chile, Mexico 
Dublin, Holland, Paris updates
Chip shortage & secondary markets

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Compass Data Centers expansions in Italy & Northern Virginia; 
Prince William County Digital Gateway; 
Helen Energy in Helsinki reusing data center heat; 
Existing data centers and your sustainability/decarbonization plan

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Highlights on a few Google challenges and successes
Server component power increases will continue a steady rise
Hydrogen fuel cells testing well at Microsoft - can it scale?
Calling out Jim Chanos's short on data center REITS 

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Industry news, including:
Wyoming WhiteBox 
iMasons nominations 
Renewable Energy Credits
U.S. Congress Chip Act

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Updates on more green and sustainable financing
MSFT and Eaton engage UPS systems to even out the data center & the grid
U.S. Government DCOI program update 
Cooling approaches for the upcoming 500W processors

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Subsea Cloud proposed to sink data center containers under the waves off the coast of Singapore in an attempt to navigate around the moratorium - will it sail through?
Microgrids revisited after questions on overall benefits
Renovating your data center can be much cheaper, greener, and faster than ever before - don't neglect safety, security, and reliability

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In-depth review of ESGs, what's included, and why they matter
ASHRAE's TC9.9 Thermal Guidelines 5th Edition changes review
New York is aiming to ban cryptomining - unless done renewably 

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OVHCloud fire follow-up - 
Frontier supercomputer reaches exa-scale and #1 on the www.thetop500.org list - 
Global data center traffic and energy trend 2010 to 2020 and the pandemic effect -
Greenwashing accusations at Deutsche Bank division DWS

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GHG, SASB, GRI, TCFD, ERI protocols and standards
Broadcom & VMWare to unite
HPE to launch big AI with monster silicon in Germany

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Global switch seems to be looking for a $10B buyer
Data center highlights around the world
Singapore moratorium revisited
Climate Neutral Data Center Pact 

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Switch & Digital Bridge acquisition
Quantum Loophole campus development & Aligned
Blue-green algae battery advancement
Quantum computing with IBM

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Data center certification programs... Energy Star evolution to the brand new DEEP certification.  
Augmented reality poised to help data center construction
Developers & Nasdaq expanding 
iMasons Climate Accord status

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Physical security for data center facilities revisited
iMasons Climate Accord 
What is the impossible circuit and what will it do for data centers?
Another Lithium-Ion fire sparks the warning about providing battery updates & testing

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Earth Day 2022: Invest in Our Planet - what has the data center industry done over the last year?  
News on the latest growth announcements;
Definitions revisited: Redundancy, Reliability & Availability

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Alibaba has the greenest data center in China; 
Apple suffers another week of multiple outages of services; 
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency efficiency revisited - build your own better via Proof of Stake

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It is possible to utilize the data center UPS & battery systems to help with grid peaks and stability - but is that a good green idea?  
Cyber security: protecting data with deeper encryption; latest DDoS attacks on Ukraine; will Russia seize IT assets as sanctions settle in

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Revisiting Loudoun County, Virginia data center growth plan details as an indicator of how to plan for new facilities & infrastructure;  
Energy certifications - for GHG protocols, ISO50001, EnergyStar and others

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Another review of the amount of energy the current cryptocurrencies are using, compared to centralized systems, and how to choose greener; Chiplet production is ramping up with a new standard - data center power density will increase accordingly

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As the attack on Ukraine by Russia intensifies, the cyberwar also heats up - quick overview of how DDoS attacks affect data centers.  Whole Life Carbon Assessments aim to become new performance metric to track carbon with everything included.  Global server growth to be +5% per year.  

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In-depth review of two locations where data center development is getting resistance from the public: Zeewolde, Netherlands; and Prince William County, VA, USA.  
A quick touch on why colocation data centers should be going green.  
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Data center of the Month: Green Mountain; 
Energy storage is becoming a crucial factor in the energy conservation and renewable energy projects supporting data centers

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News around the data center industry for February 2022; 
Major players are moving into Africa; 
Databank adds Houston with purchase of 4 CyrusOne data centers; 
OVHCloud fire aftermath; 
Metaverse and the need for more data centers; 
Singapore to be selective about their data centers: moratorium to end?

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By request, we review the basic power path from grid to chip.  Also, Meta (formerly Facebook) continues to advance their supercomputer, with the goal of being the fastest AI supercomputer in the world before the year ends.   Questions on 'biggest data center company' and 'best certification' are also answered.  

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The largest markets throughout the world have been ranked for 2021 growth and sustainability by major developers, investors, and market watchers.  The top 10 and next tier markets are discussed for how they got there as well as challenges that will lead to further growth in upcoming market cities.  
Zero energy and zero carbon are defined, including how to 'translate' from one to the other.  
Several questions are answered as well, which we hope will help those listeners as well as others.  

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A new year, and it's time to look ahead at the things that may come to pass in 2022.  By looking at some of the changes over 2021, we can start to see what lies on the path ahead.  Plus a few green data center news-worthy items, and a quick touch on the conferences that are likely to be worthwhile to plan to attend, in-person or virtually, to learn more about the industry.  

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There are a lot of events & awards toward the end of the year, and we'll review the ones most relevant for the green data center industry.  Also we review the growth of sustainable & green financing via an example from Flexential's new green deal,  

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Upon request, the basics of mechanical cooling systems are covered, from hot & cold aisles to the data center air & water systems to heat rejection and the equipment involved end-to-end to keep the data centers running without overheating.  

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Updates from around the industry, including:

• Meta data center growth 
• Mergers & acquisitions
• COP26 update
• Wind farm & renewables plans
• Infrastructure & server product launches

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Kazakhstan has had a recent series of power shortages and blackouts, leading to the country clamping down on the cryptocurrency miners that have moved in from China.  How much does crypto mining work?  How much power are we talking about for Bitcoin, Etherium, and others?  And what is next for the mostly blockchain based digital currencies?  

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Recent acquisitions of CoreSite & CyrusOne are the largest in the industry to date; what it means for each as well as the buyers.  Quantum computing continues to grow as the applications and logistics advance; but are they poised to help or consume more energy than ever?

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Two topics are covered this time: the first is Nautilus Data Technologies and their data centers in Millinocket, ME & Stockton, CA; the second is a short dive into green materials options for data centers.  

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News in the data center industry over the last month and beyond, including the UN Climate Change conference and more.

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Immersion cooling of the IT equipment is not new, but it has made significant improvements over the decades, where now it has become among the most efficient means of cooling high density equipment.

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Bringing AI into the data center can help manage & learn from the enormous amount of data that can be collected across a data center, which can then drive toward better efficiencies, failure prevention, and more.

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Facebook was offline twice in one week, for about 8 hours total.  Why, and what took so long to get back online?  Also we touch on the Facebook sustainability story.  

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A review of the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification program as it applies specifically for data centers, for LEED v4.0 & 4.1.  

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October 2021 news around the data center industry:

• New Northern VA tax  incentives
• Mergers & deals
• Subsea cables 

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A green data center possesses the same features and attributes as a usual data center, although they consume less energy, water and other resources.  Green data centers often help in certifying diminished costs and reduce an organizations carbon footprint due to the implementation of efficient power systems, routers, servers, cooling, lighting, and controls.

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Covering the data center basics for those new to the industry: 

• History of data centers, evolving to modern facilities; 
• Concepts of redundancy, availability & reliability; 
• Data center types & sizes;
• Standards and tier rating systems

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