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As AI data center infrastructure scales, the industry faces its next credibility test: earning public trust and maintaining its social license to operate with regulators, communities...
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Nvidia Co-Founder, President and CEO Jensen Huang delivers media interviews at GTC 2026.
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Voices of the Industry

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Experts from CommScope share insights on trends, technologies, and key practices shaping next generation data centers.
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Chris Hillyer, nVent's Director of Global Professional Services, explains data centers need a partner — not just a vendor — experienced in navigating the shift to liquid cooling...
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Learning Resources

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As thermal demands grow and air-cooling hits its limits, data center designers are turning to liquid cooling to unlock performance and sustainability. With multiple methods in...
March 23, 2026
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The data center industry isn't just evolving — it's being restructured. AI and high-performance computing are pushing rack densities, thermal output, and operational complexity...
March 20, 2026
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This Data Center Frontier editorial webinar will examine how data center developers, operators, energy strategists, and power infrastructure providers are addressing grid constraints...
March 26, 2026
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Discover how AI workloads, sustainability priorities, and rising power demands are reshaping data center energy storage. Based on insights from 150 global industry professionals...
March 12, 2026

Podcast

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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Tom Carroll, Director of Data Center within the ACV Strategic Business Field...
March 19, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Gordon Johnson, Senior CFD Engineer at Subzero Engineering.
March 12, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
Power, politics, and AI are rewriting the rules of data center development. Industry veteran Michael Siteman explains how site selection has evolved from real estate into a high...
March 10, 2026
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Data Center Frontier Show Podcast
Industry leaders from Oklo, Siemens Energy, AlphaStruxure, and ECL join moderator Fengrong Li of FTI Consulting in a panel to examine how onsite generation is evolving from backup...
March 3, 2026

Videos

Wesco Data Center Solutions
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In this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, talks to Rob Macchi, Vice President of Data Center Solutions for Wesco, about why...
Feb. 25, 2026
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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...
Jan. 8, 2026

Hyperscale

Meta
Meta’s MTIA AI accelerator, shown here on a development board, is designed to power large-scale inference workloads across the company’s hyperscale data centers.
Meta’s new generation of MTIA AI chips highlights how hyperscalers are redesigning the infrastructure stack, from silicon and interconnects to rack density, cooling, and power...
March 11, 2026
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Emerging federal pressure on hyperscalers to fund dedicated generation could accelerate the behind-the-meter era and rewrite the economics of AI infrastructure.
Feb. 27, 2026
Western Canada Data Center Alliance (WCDCA)
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Western Canada's Premier Data Centre and Digital Infrastructure Conference
Sept. 9, 2026 - Sept. 9, 2026
Datacenter Dynamics
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North America's flagship event connecting the data center ecosystem to design, build & operate sustainable digital infrastructure for the AI age.
March 23, 2026 - March 24, 2026

Colocation

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A series of announcements spanning hyperscale capacity deals, AI partnerships, private 5G deployments, and workforce recognition reveals how one of the world’s largest data center...
March 4, 2026
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Samantha Walters of Colocation America shares her thoughts on four trends she's seeing in the colocation space.
Dec. 26, 2025
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Twin supply-capacity agreements by Schneider Electric with Switch and Digital Realty show how AI data centers are starting to lock up power and thermal infrastructure in much ...
Nov. 24, 2025
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Centersquare’s self-funded, 10-site expansion pushes its platform to roughly 80 facilities, adding density-ready capacity across high-growth U.S. metros and key Canadian markets...
Nov. 19, 2025

Power

Bloom Energy
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A new Bloom Energy report finds power availability emerging as the defining constraint on AI data center growth, driving gigawatt campuses, onsite generation, and shifts in U....
March 13, 2026
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PJM proposes new rules limiting behind-the-meter loads above 50 MW, aiming to integrate AI-scale data centers into grid planning while protecting system reliability and ratepayers...
March 12, 2026
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Matt Fredericks of Champion Fiberglass explains why conduit material selection is not just a code-compliance exercise, it is also a risk management decision.
March 9, 2026
Informa Connect
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Shaping the future of data infrastructure through energy and investment as the only conference focused on capital in data center power.
May 4, 2026 - May 4, 2026

Cooling

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As racks surge from 10 kW to well over 100 kW, the air itself has become a design variable. The emerging science of “airflow intelligence,” a new discipline linking clean air ...
March 19, 2026
HRL
HRL Laboratories unveiled what it calls a breakthrough single-phase direct liquid cooling technology, designed to enable higher GPU and rack power densities in modern data centers minus the cost and complexity of two-phase cooling systems, while supporting low-water cooling architectures.
A surge of 2026 data center cooling announcements, from HRL’s ARPA-E-backed single-phase breakthrough and Johnson Controls’ planned Alloy acquisition to new AI-ready chillers ...
Feb. 26, 2026
Submer
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Trane’s acquisition of LiquidStack and Submer’s latest expansion moves signal a new phase in AI data center growth, where liquid cooling and integrated thermal strategies are ...
Feb. 11, 2026
DCX
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As AI rack densities surge, operators are moving from row-level CDUs to facility-scale liquid cooling. DCX’s new megawatt-class coolant distribution platforms enable warm-water...
Feb. 5, 2026

AI / Machine Learning

Prologis
An aerial rendering of Prologis' Project Mila data center in Butler County, Ohio near Cincinnati.
New hyperscale campuses, GPU infrastructure deployments, energy projects, and policy debates illustrate how the race to build AI data centers is accelerating across North America...
March 6, 2026
OpenAI
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With infrastructure partnerships spanning AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, and specialized GPU cloud providers, OpenAI is helping drive the emergence of a multi-cloud AI ecosystem...
March 5, 2026
7x24 Exchange International
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The theme for the 7x24 Exchange 2026 Spring Conference is "Future Proofing the AI Data Center."
June 7, 2026 - June 10, 2026
Informa Connect
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Where digital infrastructure meets financial innovation. Your gateway to data center investment success.
May 5, 2026 - May 5, 2026

Press Releases

Hammerspace
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Built on NVIDIA's reference design and integrated with Secuvy's security solutions, Hammerspace's AIDP provides flexible hardware compatibility, unified orchestration, and real...
March 17, 2026
Endress+Hauser
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A new purpose-built variant of the Picomag electromagnetic flowmeter for the US market, for data center and cooling system applications where wireless communication is restricted...
March 16, 2026
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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 ...
March 4, 2026
Data Center Frontier
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This special edition of The Data Center Frontier Show Podcast is an update of the DCF Trends Summit 2025 panel moderated by Fengrong Li of FTI Consulting, entitled: “From Grid...
March 3, 2026