AI-scale workloads are reshaping the fundamentals of data center design. For Data Center Frontier’s Q3 2025 Executive Roundtable, three industry leaders tackled the most urgent challenges: managing thermal and water risk at scale, balancing CapEx vs. OpEx in the race to build, and breaking down silos...

Masahiko Inoue, Head of Japan for EdgeConneX, profiles the growing Japanese data center market.

Nomads at the Summit is a new podcast series from Data Center Frontier and the Nomad Futurist Foundation, recorded live at the 2025 DCF Trends Summit. These candid conversations bring you behind the scenes of the ideas, talent, and technologies driving the next chapter of the data center industry.

An occasional feature exploring the flashpoints where local and regional community pushback is meeting the US data center boom.

Traditional data center architectures and protocols are no longer sufficient to support the parallelism and data intensity of modern AI training and inference.

Oracle’s aggressive AI-first infrastructure expansion underpins OpenAI’s Stargate vision, transforming cloud into a core national-scale compute and energy resource. This $300 billion investment highlights GPU superclusters, power-rich sites, multicloud orchestration, and sovereignty-aware deployment...

  As artificial intelligence accelerates across industries, data center networks are under pressure to evolve. Traditional architectures no longer meet the bandwidth, latency, and scalability demands of AI workloads, particularly those driven by large language models and real-time inference. AI...

AI has pushed liquid cooling from a niche technology to a critical requirement for high density data centers.In this episode, Matt Vincent, Editor in Chief of Data Center Frontier and Pat McGinn, COO and President of CoolIT Systems, discuss why AI is driving liquid cooling from optional to essential. Pat explains how CoolIT helps customers deliver AI systems at speed and scale through proven capacity...

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Justin Loritz, Product Manager, Large Diesel for Rehlko.

Trane's Becky Wacker says her company believes a total data center cooling system solution is crucial, integrating components such as CDUs, fan walls, CRAHs, and chillers to anticipate demand and respond effectively.

As AI workloads dominate data center construction, Brandon Peterson, SVP of Business Development at CoolIT Systems, emphasizes that the industry's greatest thermal challenge is moving beyond mere adoption to true optimization of liquid cooling systems. He observes that "AI factories" are pushing for...

Ecolab's Girotra explains how collaborating very early on in the site selection process helps customers evaluate what cooling topology for a given region is truly most sustainable, with least holistic impacts on watersheds and power grids.