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Google had secured access to Finland’s northern grid, but environmental rules are blocking site work at two facilities in its €13 billion data center expansion.
KT Cloud will serve as the design, build, and operate partner
Tom Liddy speaks with Christian Goldsmith of Arcadis about tackling critical talent shortages in the data center sector through workforce planning, strategic training, and global external accreditatio...
As demands on data center networks grow, is CPO finally ready to take center stage?
Firm will recover and supply 50MW to warm buildings and a swimming pool
Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority requests reports from local municipalities
Ablecom AbleCool helps data centers achieve sustainability and cost savings
Developer says it has already secured an anchor customer for the site
Data center in Ryazan Oblast struck in drone attack
Aligning flexible workloads to cleaner hours and locations turns variability into measurable Scope 2 reductions.
How hyperscale data center operators can scale AI infrastructure with reliable power, advanced cooling and repeatable architectures for 1 GW deployments
Power limits are pushing development beyond FLAP-D, but grid access, construction capacity, and community support will decide which projects get delivered.
Power constraints are pushing operators toward on-site generation, but uncertainty beyond 2030 raises questions about how much infrastructure to build.
AI data centers’ rapid power swings threaten grid stability, requiring coordinated chip-to-grid strategies across chip makers, operators, utilities, and infrastructure providers.
From rack-level batteries to BESS and solid-state transformers, new power architectures are reshaping where and whether the UPS belongs in the data center.
Data center development now requires addressing grid costs, water use, and community benefits. Securing power alone is no longer enough for approval.
A proposed 20-story Kansas City data center trades suburban sprawl for urban density, offering proximity and network diversity – but at higher construction costs that only specific workloads may justi...
AI success hinges on infrastructure. Use this five-part framework to evaluate power, cooling, security, cost strategy, and scalability.
Data center developers are responding to growing community opposition by embracing transparency, funding power infrastructure, and prioritizing locations with supportive residents.
N+1 capacity can hide shared-control dependencies, turning many units into a single failure domain. Learn how to design for degraded operation and commission real resilience.
As AI density and airflow rise, legacy raised-floor and zinc-plated components can shed conductive whiskers that jeopardize equipment reliability.
Micron's HBM3E ramp is a critical link in the AI compute supply chain — and the data centers running these GPUs are the primary driver of new fiber infrastructure buildout globally.
Samsung's component division is expanding 800G transceiver production capacity, positioning itself as a key supplier to hyperscale AI infrastructure operators.
AI training workloads require petabytes of fast storage — Micron's latest NAND is making hyper-dense storage arrays practical, and those arrays need fiber-attached interconnects throughout.