Project Stargate moved from concept to execution in 2025 as OpenAI began assembling a multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure portfolio across the U.S. and abroad. With SoftBank’s acquisition of DigitalBridge, the initiative gains deeper infrastructure alignment, highlighting how power, capital, and delivery...

Mike Obradovitch of Ecolab explains why smart water management is ultimately a combination of planning, technology, and continuous optimization.

As 2026 begins, the AI data center boom looks intact, but its assumptions are under quiet stress.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, talks to Axel Bokiba, General Manager Data Center Cooling for MOOG, about what is takes to deliver liquid cooling reliably at hyperscale. During the 19-minute interview, Bokiba discusses the hidden complexities in scaling liquid cooling for hyperscale data centers, including the impact on infrastructure...

Join us for this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, as DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent checks in with Darren Burgess US Business Development Director, at BP Castrol for an engaging conversation  that explores how the rapid expansion of data centers is intensifying demand for advanced cooling solutions and the challenges that come with meeting that need. It compares liquid cooling with traditional...

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.

The sixth in a series of articles recapping key sessions from the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2025 (Aug. 26–28), held Sept. 27, 2025, in Reston, Va.

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 ...

As 2025 comes to a close, AWS is scaling AI infrastructure across data centers, customer sites, and global networks; rolling out hybrid AI Factories, committing $15 billion to new hyperscale capacity in Indiana, and deploying the Fastnet subsea cable to support the next wave of AI compute.