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Jay Dietrich Rose Weinschenk
6 Aug 2024
Sustainability teams: key players and crucial collaborations

Data center teams and their suppliers need to build a coherent, achievable sustainability strategy to address emerging regulations. Managers should clarify roles and set cross-functional metrics to achieve sustainability goals.

Intelligence Updates 11 min read
Max Smolaks Daniel Bizo
1 Aug 2024
Hardware for AI: what makes it different

Most operators will be familiar with the outrageous power and cooling demands of hardware for generative AI. Why are these systems so difficult to accommodate, and what does this mean for the future of data center design?

Intelligence Updates 10 min read
Jacqueline Davis
31 Jul 2024
Water cold plates lead in the small, but growing, world of DLC

The transition to direct liquid cooling has been a slow process. Today, operators work with water cold plates more than any other type of cooling, but this might change once a wider range of DLC types become available.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Rose Weinschenk
25 Jul 2024
Digital EOPs: the appliance of science

Many data center operators are unaware that digitizing process documentation can impact staff performance. Understanding human psychology enables team leaders to create more effective digital versions of procedural documents.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Andy Lawrence Max Smolaks
22 Jul 2024
Global IT disruption highlights concentration, third-party risk

Several recent outages have exposed the global dependency on a small number of third-party suppliers — and governments around the world are already taking note.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Peter Judge
19 Jul 2024
Europe taxes waste heat recovery: can data centers make it work?

According to a recent court ruling, European organizations are required to charge value added tax (VAT) on waste heat that they give away for free. This calls into question the economics of waste heat reuse.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Andy Lawrence
12 Jul 2024
Six AI infrastructure conundrums

Although there is still uncertainty around the rate of AI adoption, many organizations are pushing ahead to avoid being left behind. However, behind this enthusiasm, there are six issues that operators face when hosting AI.

Intelligence Updates 10 min read
Peter Judge
9 Jul 2024
European legislation prompts greater environmental action

In response to stronger environmental legislation, data center operators in European countries are making greater investments in data center efficiency — as well as increasing their reporting.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
5 Jul 2024
Interest in two-phase cooling warms up

Two-phase immersion was expected to revolutionize data center cooling but proved difficult to implement. With escalating silicon thermal power, two-phase is gaining substantial interest again, just in a different form: direct-to-chip liquid cooling.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Rose Weinschenk
27 Jun 2024
Targeted recruitment can widen the talent pool

Investing in recruitment initiatives and exploring underutilized talent pools could help data centers overcome current recruitment difficulties in sourcing appropriate candidates.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Daniel Bizo Rosa Lawrence
25 Jun 2024
Immersion fluids hold promise, but fire risk a concern

There are no commonly accepted best practices or standards to refer to when assessing the fire hazard that single-phase immersion fluids pose in a data center application and the appropriate measures against them.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
John O'Brien
21 Jun 2024
DCIM past and present: what’s changed?

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is evolving and improving. This report discusses where DCIM has made most progress, and why it is now considered a viable and worthwhile investment.

Intelligence Updates 9 min read
Jabari Williams-George Daniel Bizo
20 Jun 2024
Air cooling’s third wind

This report discusses recent innovations in air cooling, such as advanced evaporative cooling methods, AI-driven facility management and cutting-edge server heat sinks.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Michael O'Neil
18 Jun 2024
Mitigating OT risk from third-party requests

Operators often resist giving third parties access to OT data to limit vulnerabilities. Nevertheless, some colocation customers require this access — as will emerging AI tools — but the OT air-gap should not be bridged lightly.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Peter Judge
14 Jun 2024
Ignore Li-ion fire risks at your peril

Li-ion batteries have many benefits but may have been adopted without sufficient risk analysis. Following serious data center fires, operators should be aware of the risk of damage, potential regulations and the costs of safety mitigation.

Intelligence Updates 9 min read