Water treatment and chemicals giant Ecolab has agreed to pay $4.75 billion in cash for Canadian DLC specialist CoolIT. It is the latest sign of unabated demand for AI compute.
Although media coverage suggests data center buildout is accelerating, recent announcements and construction data paint a different picture - and suggest momentum may be slowing.
Although cloud platforms often offer the lowest cost for AI inference, on-premises deployment may be preferable due to application architecture, data locality and control requirements.
Community backlash forces operators to rethink NDA use
Enterprises will deploy inference in-house — if they can
Rising densities pose hidden risks for electricians
Optimizing Sites for Human Performance and Staff Success
Network Advisory: Current State of Digital Twins
Emerging life safety challenges in modern data centers
Addressing the data center heat recovery contradiction
Conserving diesel - any tips?
Electricity tariff cost to the opex of data centre
The struggle between AI and net-zero is becoming visible
Why inference will become a ubiquitous IT workload
Musk's moonshot project faces astronomical challenges
Next-gen GPUs may not need chillers — but data centers do
Liquid cooling will not outgrow its high-density niche
Coolant distribution units can complicate commissioning
Ireland's new grid rules signal shift in data center roles
New power architectures to reshape data center design
Giant data center power plans reach extreme levels
Resiliency will be re-examined, but few will compromise
EU power providers urged to protect grids from data centers
What cloud sovereignty really means
Capacity allocation and the next generation of AI-era KPIs
IT power thresholds can incentivize server inefficiency
Digital twins and DCIM: why data quality must come first
