| | | | | | | | | | From a converted factory in Memphis to a planned $20B, 2-gigawatt campus in Mississippi, Elon Musk’s xAI is building “AI factories” at unprecedented speed. This deep-dive follows Colossus, MACROHARDRR, and the race between compute, power, water, and politics in the new era of data centers. |
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| | | | | | Sponsored | | Sadiq Syed, SVP Digital Buildings for Schneider Electric, explains how reducing energy waste can support data centers looking to get the most out of AI. |
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| | | | | | Sponsored | | Now is the perfect time to register for Microgrid Knowledge 2026. Super Early Bird pricing saves you $200 on your full conference pass when you register before January 30. Join peers and leaders shaping the future of microgrids, resilience, and decentralized energy. This limited-time offer won’t last. |
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| | | | | | As 2026 begins, the AI data center boom looks intact, but its assumptions are under a degree of quiet stress. |
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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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| | | | | | | | Six new chips, one system. NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin launch extends beyond a single product into a full AI infrastructure platform where compute, networking, memory, and operations are co-designed to deliver low-cost, always-on inference at scale. |
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| | JLL's 2026 Global Data Center Outlook report highlights a massive $3 trillion supercycle in data center infrastructure, driven by AI, cloud expansion, and geographic distribution, with capacity expected to double by 2030 amid energy constraints. |
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| | 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... |
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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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Sponsored | | Attendees will also gain insights into optimizing capacity planning and leveraging digital twins to future-proof their critical facilities. |
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| | | | | EDITOR'S PICKS by Matt Vincent |
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| | DCF sat down with Kevin Ooley, CFO of DataBank, for a wide-ranging conversation on how capital structure, lender confidence, and disciplined development strategy are shaping the operator's growth trajectory in an AI-driven market. |
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Sponsored | | 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... |
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| | 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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