The Top 10 Data Center Stories of March 2021

April 1, 2021
It was another record month for audience growth at Data Center Frontier, a sign of growing interest in digital infrastructure. Here the 10 most popular stories for March 2021.

It was another record month for audience growth at Data Center Frontier, a sign of growing interest in digital infrastructure. The fire and related outages at OVH were the top story, while there was also strong interest in DCF’s industry-leading coverage of new edge data center design at Equinix, and Microsoft’s embrace of immersion cooling technology.  Not to mention space lasers, a “logistics meets data” partnership, and a startup planning “data center cities.”

Here the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in March 2021, in order of article views:

Education is part of our mission at Data Center Frontier. In our Voices of the Industry feature, we share the experience of data center executives on the front lines of innovation. Here’s a look at the most popular Voices columns for DCF readers last month:

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Rich Miller

I write about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them. I founded Data Center Knowledge, the data center industry's leading news site. Now I'm exploring the future of cloud computing at Data Center Frontier.

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