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Xylem's Steven Lucente explains why the intelligence of any data center cooling system begins with sound hydronic system design.
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As data centers and AI accelerate demand for resources, operators face a new set of infrastructure challenges. Success depends on more than adding capacity. It requires a holistic...
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Learning Resources

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This webinar explores how modern press technology can help data center owners, engineers and contractors rethink the design and installation of cooling and fluid systems.
Oct. 14, 2026
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To address the challenges of safety and exposure risks in modern data centers, an intelligent, multifaceted safety and monitoring ecosystem is essential to support data centers...
Sept. 17, 2026
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In this webinar, Nautilus CEO Rob Pfleging and CRO Kindra Martone break down the cooling design considerations that let operators build high-density facilities that maximize free...
Sept. 24, 2026
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How modular, scalable energy infrastructure can help data center developers bring capacity online faster, reduce deployment risk, and keep pace with accelerating AI demand.
Sept. 4, 2026

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The Data Center Frontier Trends Summit brings together the executives, operators, and innovators shaping the future of digital infrastructure. In 2027, we're heading to a new home: Glendale, Arizona, May 5–7, co-located with Microgrid Knowledge. Join us for three days of expert insight on power, AI-driven demand, design, and development, plus the conversations and connections that move the industry forward.

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Podcast

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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Rick Hombsch, Director of Engineering at MTE.
Sept. 24, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier podcast, Matt Vincent Editor in Chief speaks with Steve Grundmeier, VP of Data Centers at Emerson.
Sept. 17, 2026
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As hyperscale campuses follow power into new markets, network infrastructure is moving upstream in the development process. Kirkwood Infrastructure Group CEO Scott Bergs says ...
Sept. 15, 2026
Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
As AI campuses chase power at unprecedented scale, DC Blox CTO Jeff Wabik says connectivity can increasingly be built to the site. The harder problem is making fiber, permits,...
Sept. 8, 2026

Videos

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Join us for this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, as DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent checks in with Chris Osian, Product Manager at Starline, for an engaging conversation that...
Sept. 16, 2026
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As AI continues to reshape the data center landscape, many operators face the challenge of supporting new AI workloads without starting from scratch. In this Quick Chat video,...
Aug. 4, 2026

Hyperscale

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At Data Centre West in Calgary, hyperscalers, colocation operators, utilities and infrastructure developers focused less on why Alberta should become a major data center market...
Sept. 21, 2026
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AI data center growth is fueling consolidation across power infrastructure, construction, logistics, commissioning and operations as providers build more integrated data center...
Sept. 18, 2026
Open Compute Project
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The OCP Summit is the premier event uniting the most forward-thinking minds in open IT ecosystem development. The Summit presents a unique platform for the OCP Community from ...
Oct. 12, 2026 - Oct. 15, 2026
New partnerships with Lancium, Cloverleaf, Trane and Eaton show NVIDIA extending DSX deeper into data center infrastructure, linking site development, power, cooling and operations...
Sept. 10, 2026

Colocation

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Date: October 25-28, 2026. Venue: JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country San Antonio, TX. Theme: The Intersection of AI & Traditional Data Centers
Oct. 25, 2026 - Oct. 29, 2026
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Corvex is using Lenovo Neptune liquid-to-air cooling to deploy high-density NVIDIA Blackwell systems inside existing air-cooled data centers, pairing faster infrastructure delivery...
Aug. 27, 2026
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Brett Rutherford, Regional Sales Manager for PDU Cables, explains why uptime is no longer the sole measure of resiliency.
Aug. 3, 2026
Sabey Data Centers
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Inside Sabey’s Lower Manhattan data center, where interconnection, elevation, and emerging AI inference demand meet in one of New York’s most distinctive infrastructure assets...
April 15, 2026

Power

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Matt Fredericks of Champion Fiberglass® explains why engineers and contractors should consider how a conduit material will perform from installation through the operating life...
Sept. 16, 2026
As reactor restarts move closer to reality, DCF examines whether advanced nuclear can become repeatable infrastructure for AI — and whether fuel, manufacturing, construction certainty...
Sept. 14, 2026
As utilities confront massive interconnection queues and increasingly speculative load forecasts, DCF asks what evidence should separate credible data center projects from “ghost...
Sept. 11, 2026
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At Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026, industry leaders examined how behind-the-meter generation is moving from backup to permanent infrastructure as AI developers combine...
Sept. 9, 2026

Cooling

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The race to build AI-ready data centers has fundamentally changed the physics of mission-critical design. As next-generation GPUs push power consumption past 250kW per rack, the...
Sept. 1, 2026
This explainer examines the major approaches to data center cooling—from chilled-water and evaporative systems to direct-to-chip liquid cooling—and the tradeoffs in energy, water...
July 20, 2026
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Recent industry announcements highlight a shift towards integrated, scalable cooling solutions driven by AI and HPC demands. Focus areas include chip-level thermal management,...
June 23, 2026
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Rick Hombsch of MTE explains why power quality is not optional, it's foundational.
June 15, 2026

AI / Machine Learning

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At DCFTS 2026, JLL’s Sean Farney led developers and operators through the harder question behind the AI infrastructure boom: what actually separates announced gigawatts from energized...
Sept. 17, 2026
PwC’s inaugural Global Data Centre Outlook projects a multi-decade infrastructure cycle increasingly dominated by recurring GPU and server investment, with power availability,...
Sept. 4, 2026
From power and entitled land to community acceptance, workforce and adaptable design, the opening sessions of Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026 examined what it now takes...
Sept. 2, 2026
Keel Infrastructure
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Keel Infrastructure is turning an 18-MW cryptocurrency mining site in central Washington into its first AI/HPC data center, offering a test case for how powered crypto assets ...
Aug. 24, 2026

Press Releases

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Lenovo unveils new ThinkAgile systems and deployment services designed to help enterprises modernize their data centers, supporting AI, cloud-native, and traditional workloads...
Sept. 16, 2026
The acquisition brings Adapt-IP’s meter-level wireless asset-location technology into CargoSense’s agentic supply chain platform, targeting one of the less visible challenges ...
Sept. 15, 2026
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Each month Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, posts some of the hottest data center career opportunities in the market. Here’s a look at some of the latest data ...
Sept. 2, 2026
AixEnergy brings together organisations building AI infrastructure and deploying AI across energy systems. Across four days, industry leaders will explore the technologies, partnerships...
Sept. 14, 2026 - Sept. 18, 2026