AMD's Helion open rack-scale architecture supports configurable CPU and GPU resources for agentic AI, with designs targeting hyperscale agent execution and enterprise inference. (Image courtesy of AMD)

AMD Helion: Agentic AI's CPU Shift

AMD's new open rack architecture rethinks the balance between CPU-driven agent execution and GPU inference, raising important questions about power, cooling, networking and the...

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AI / Machine Learning

AI’s Regulatory Divide Reaches the Data Center

Hyperscale

The Economics of GPU Lifecycle Management

Data Center Frontier Show Podcast

The former Fred’s headquarters and distribution complex at 4300 Getwell Road in Memphis is being transformed into 5C Data Centers’ MEM01 AI computing facility. The company has filed a $575 million permit application for a major expansion of the 1.1 million-square-foot property, with plans to increase available power to 84 MW through a combination of utility service and behind-the-meter generation.

Hyperscale

5C's Memphis AI Factory Expansion

atNorth's ICE02 data center in Reykjanesbær, Iceland. The Nordic operator's $4 billion acquisition by CPP Investments and Equinix highlights growing institutional investment in the region's AI-ready infrastructure. (Photo: atNorth)

Sustainability

DCF Global: The Nordics

George Tchaparian, CEO of the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation, opens the second day of keynotes at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California, outlining the organization's expanding chip-to-grid vision for AI infrastructure, with an emphasis on energy, open cluster design, and security.

AI / Machine Learning

OCP 2026: AI Factory Integration Challenges

Locations

Virginia’s New Data Center Bargain

Voices of the Industry

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The Next Cooling Challenge: Building Resilience Beyond Technology

Tom Carroll of ebm-papst explains the importance of building cooling systems that are resilient and can support data center growth over the long term.

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Why AI Data Center Compressors Need to Work Efficiently at Both Ends of the Operating Range

Experts from the Research Institute at Midea Building Technologies, explain how a dual-rotor compressor architecture addresses the efficiency and continuity challenges that gigawatt...

Learning Resources

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From Training to Inference- Why DCIM Is Becoming Mission-Critical

Training made data centers bigger, but inference is making them vastly more complex. Discover why real-time DCIM is now mission-critical to manage the power, cooling, and uptime...

Oct. 21, 2026

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Webinars

A Practical Approach to Power, Cooling, and Facility Monitoring within Data Center Infrastructure Management

This webinar brings together RoviSys, Inductive Automation, and Advantech to explore a practical approach to bridging physical infrastructure with modern Data Center Infrastructure...

Nov. 12, 2026

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Webinars

Accelerating 1.6T Deployments: Solving Physical Layer Challenges for Next-Generation Networks

Join Legrand's experts for a fireside chat exploring the technologies enabling next-generation network architectures, including the evolution of Very Small Form Factor (VSFF) ...

Oct. 29, 2026

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ASK THE EXPERT: Data Center Sustainability Requires a More Connected Scorecard

Data center sustainability is becoming a more complex engineering challenge as AI increases power density and changes the requirements for thermal management. Traditional efficiency...

Oct. 13, 2026

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BUILD FOR WHAT'S NEXT

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.

Podcast

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PODCAST: Beyond the Liquid Cooling Hype: Why Airflow Still Matters in AI Data Centers

Data Center Frontier Show Podcast

In this podcast, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief at DCF, and Brooke Zalud, Market Segment Manager at Ziehl-Abegg, discuss how air and liquid cooling work together to improve thermal...

Oct. 22, 2026

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Everyone Says Diesel Is Dead. The Market Says Otherwise

Data Center Frontier Show Podcast

The conversation around data center power has focused on replacing diesel. But for many hyperscalers and developers, modern standby diesel remains a practical solution amid grid...

Oct. 15, 2026

Power

AI Is Rewriting the Energy Storage Playbook

Data Center Frontier Show Podcast

As synchronized GPU workloads create faster and more volatile power swings, Musashi Energy Solutions President Americas Frank DeLattre says data centers may need to rethink where...

Oct. 6, 2026

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PODCAST: Powering the Future: Why Overhead Busway Is Built for High-Density Data Centers

Data Center Frontier Show Podcast

AI and high-performance computing are changing how data centers are designed and powered. Rack densities have more than doubled in recent years, and power demands continue to ...

Oct. 1, 2026

Videos

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Videos

QuickChat: Data Center Projects and Sustainability Transitions

In this QuickChat, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief at DCF, and Joel Wynn, VP of Data Center Solutions Sales at Southwire, explore the growing importance of supply chain transparency...

Oct. 19, 2026

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QUICK CHAT: Powering the AI Era: Why Overhead Busway Is Built for Modern Data Centers

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

Jobs

Data Center MEP Engineer

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Data Center Construction Project Manager - MEP Tenant Fit Outs

Hyperscale

The fabric-roofed keynote hall at OCP 2026 in San Jose was built by Sprung Structures, the same company supplying massive engineered enclosures for Meta’s Prometheus AI campus in Ohio. Meta’s Santosh Janardhan noted that the approach can help bring data center capacity online in just three to five months, versus years for conventional construction.

Hyperscale

Agentic AI Drives OCP Beyond the Rack

At the Open Compute Project Global Summit, AMD, Meta, Arm, Broadcom and NVIDIA outlined a sweeping transformation of AI infrastructure, from CPU-intensive agentic computing and...

Oct. 13, 2026

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Hyperscale

North America's AI Data Center Pipeline Widens

From gigawatt-scale AI campuses in Texas and Canada to emerging projects across the U.S. and Mexico, the latest Land & Expand tracks North America's expanding data center development...

Oct. 12, 2026

Samsung Heavy Industries’ floating data center concept. SHI is expanding development partnerships around the platform, including agreements with Capital and Lloyd’s Register on project development, regulatory requirements and commercial feasibility, as well as a joint development effort with Supermicro focused on validating AI servers for offshore operating conditions.

Hyperscale

Floating Data Centers Approach Scale

Samsung/Mousterian, Seatrium, Mocean Energy and Atomarine are pursuing radically different offshore paths to AI capacity, from 30 MW modular barges to 200 MW concepts and wave...

Sept. 23, 2026

AI / Machine Learning

Preparing Communities for AI Data Centers

Data Center Frontier Show Podcast

OIX board member Ilissa Miller joins the DCF Show to explain how communities can plan for AI data centers before projects arrive, why digital infrastructure belongs in long-range...

Sept. 22, 2026

Colocation

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Who Should Coordinate the Heavy Lift?

Crane, rigging, and heavy-haul work may sit within a single trade scope, according to ProLift Rigging's Bill Tierney, but on complex data center projects, the work itself can ...

Oct. 9, 2026

Colocation

7×24 Exchange Fall 2026 Conference

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

Colocation

Corvex Pushes Liquid-Cooled AI Retrofits

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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Beyond Uptime: Data Center Resiliency in the Age of AI

Brett Rutherford, Regional Sales Manager for PDU Cables, explains why uptime is no longer the sole measure of resiliency.

Aug. 3, 2026

Power

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The Converter as the Control Point for AI Data Center Power

Hitachi Energy's Susan McLeod explains how power conversion solutions (PCS) can turn volatile AI loads, constrained grid connections and on-site energy assets into a coordinated...

Oct. 19, 2026

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Behind-the-Meter Power Offers Control, Flexibility and Speed for the AI Age

For the last decade, the data center industry has been a quiet engine of the digital economy, but today, the explosive rise of AI is exacerbating power sourcing issues that must...

Oct. 12, 2026

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How Data Center Power Went from Utility to Strategy

As grid bottlenecks persist and AI-driven load dynamics challenge conventional electrical designs, Rehlko's Nicole Dierksheide explains why backup generation is increasingly considered...

Oct. 7, 2026

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AI Energy Parks: From Speed to Power to Power That Lasts

Mark Ortiz, Head of Segment Solution Consulting at Schneider Electric, explains why an energy park should be treated as long-term infrastructure, not just a temporary bridge to...

Oct. 5, 2026

Cooling

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Cooling at the Edge of Capability

Liquid cooling is not a single design choice. It is a family of approaches that must be aligned to workload requirements, facility constraints, service models, and long-term growth...

Oct. 23, 2026

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The AI Cooling Inflection Point

AI-era cooling is not just about moving more air. It is about building a balanced thermal strategy that supports density, reliability, and long-term scalability.

Oct. 16, 2026

Cooling

CoolIT’s Calgary Liquid Cooling Plant

A tour of Ecolab’s CoolIT Systems manufacturing and R&D operations in Calgary shows what happens when direct liquid cooling moves from specialized engineering into industrial-...

Sept. 28, 2026

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Installing Cooling that Scales: Why Pipe-Joining Speed and Integrity Are the Bottlenecks in AI Infrastructure

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

AI / Machine Learning

AI / Machine Learning

5 Markets Redrawing the AI Infrastructure Map

Introducing DCF Global: From Spain's permitting revolution and China's energy-rich computing hubs to India's investment surge, Latin America's industrial policies, and Southeast...

Oct. 9, 2026

NVIDIA's DSX Ready program establishes qualification requirements for battery energy storage systems and coolant distribution units supporting its AI factory reference designs. The inaugural group includes six power and cooling suppliers. (Image: NVIDIA)

Design

NVIDIA's DSX Ready Targets AI Power and Cooling

NVIDIA's new qualification program establishes technical requirements for battery energy storage and liquid cooling systems, bringing Hitachi Energy, Tesla, LG, Vertiv and LiquidStack...

Oct. 8, 2026

Crusoe’s Google data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas. The project, directly connected to adjacent wind generation, illustrates the increasingly energy-first model emerging around AI infrastructure development. (Image: Crusoe)

AI / Machine Learning

Where the AI Buildout Goes Next

A week of billion-dollar financings, massive compute contracts, energy-first data center projects and new development rules offered a revealing look at where the AI infrastructure...

Oct. 5, 2026

November 2025 aerial view of data centers intermingled with other commercial buildings in Loudoun County, near Ashburn.

AI / Machine Learning

Poll: What Must Data Centers Prove at AI Scale?

For years, the data center industry’s biggest constraints were largely physical, centered on power, transmission, land, water, equipment and labor. As the AI infrastructure...

Oct. 2, 2026

Press Releases

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Data Center Jobs: October 2026

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 ...

Oct. 5, 2026

Press Releases

Lenovo Expands Virtualization Portfolio to Support AI and Cloud-Native Workloads

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

Press Releases

CargoSense Adds Wireless 3D Tracking With Adapt-IP Acquisition, Targeting Data Center Supply Chain Bottlenecks

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

Press Releases

Poll: Real vs. Ghost Data Center Demand

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