The Data Center Frontier Show

The Data Center Frontier Show

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AI Is the New Normal: Building the AI Factory for Power, Profit, and Scale

As the data center industry enters the AI era in earnest, incremental upgrades are no longer enough. That was the central message of the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2025 session “AI Is the New Normal: Building the AI Factory for Power, Profit, and Scale,” where operators a ...  Show more

The Distributed Data Frontier: Edge, Interconnection, and the Future of Digital Infrastructure

As AI workloads push data center infrastructure in both centralized and distributed directions, the industry is rethinking where compute lives, how data moves, and who controls the networks in between. This episode captures highlights from The Distributed Data Frontier: Edge, Int ...  Show more

Uptime Institute's Max Smolaks: Power, Racks, and the Economics of the AI Data Center Boom

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Uptime Institute research analyst Max Smolaks about the infrastructure forces reshaping AI data centers from power and racks to cooling, economics, and the question of whether the boom ...  Show more

Beyond the Grid: Natural Gas, Speed, and the New Data Center Reality

In this Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2025 session—moderated by Stu Dyer (CBRE) with panelists Aad den Elzen (Solar Turbines/Caterpillar), Creede Williams (Exigent Energy Partners), and Adam Michaelis (PointOne Data Centers)—the conversation centered on a hard truth of the A ...  Show more

ILA Facilities: The Workhorse of Fiber Transport

In this episode, we crack open the world of ILA (In-Line Amplifier) huts, those unassuming shelters are quietly powering fiber connectivity. Like mini utility substations of the fiber world, these small, secure, and distributed facilities keep internet, voice, and data networks r ...  Show more