| | | | | | | | | | As the data center industry heads into 2026, AI is no longer just driving demand. It is reshaping power, cooling, site selection, and public scrutiny. This in-depth forecast examines how AI factories are diverging from general-purpose data centers, why utilities are becoming co-architects, and how capital... |
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| | | | | | Sponsored | | Samantha Walters of Colocation America shares her thoughts on four trends she's seeing in the colocation space. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | 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 center jobs posted on the Data Center Frontier jobs board, powered by Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting. |
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| | | | | | | | 2025 revealed how data center outages, from fires and mechanical failures to hyperscale cloud region events, can cascade quickly in an AI-driven world, highlighting the growing importance of physical resilience, control-plane reliability, and clean recovery. |
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| | AI density, power constraints, megacampuses, and liquid cooling defined 2025. Our annual Scorecard revisits DCF’s predictions to separate clear hits from trends that proved early, revealing how execution—even more than demand—shaped the year. |
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| | SoftBank’s $4 billion acquisition of DigitalBridge marks a decisive shift from financing AI to owning the infrastructure that powers it. By adding a $108 billion digital infrastructure platform—spanning data centers, fiber, towers, and edge assets—SoftBank strengthens its position in AI megaprojects... |
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| | | | | | | | As artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) design criteria continue to evolve, today’s data center operators face a new challenge: engineering facilities capable of handling extreme density, variable workloads, and rapid hardware refresh cycles. Faced with rapid innovation... |
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| | | | | | Sponsored | | Attendees will gain actionable insights into designing and deploying fuel cell-powered data centers, including strategies for load-following with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), achieving high nines availability with modular, redundant power architecture, and optimizing site layouts for phased growth. |
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| | | | | EDITOR'S PICKS by Matt Vincent |
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| | Starcloud’s successful deployment of an orbital AI data center marks a pivotal test for space-based data center infrastructure, exploring how off-planet compute could address the power, cooling, land, and sustainability constraints facing AI data centers on Earth, while leaving key questions around ... |
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| | AI is reshaping the data center in unexpected ways: from former crypto mining sites becoming AI campuses to rack-scale systems that are redefining power, cooling, and economics at the edge of feasibility. In this episode and accompanying feature, Data Center Frontier and Uptime Institute’s Max Smolaks... |
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| | DCF Editor-at-Large Melissa Reali weighs in with her data center industry trends forecast and predictions for next year. |
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| | | | Interested in reaching the Data Center Frontier audience with your own message?
Email: Tom Larranaga, (973) 460-9476 |
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