2023 Year-end Review
As 2023 comes to a close, it has been another exciting year for data centers. From advancements in technology to shifts in sustainability practices, here is a summary of some of the updates we’ve seen: Quantum Computing Integration:Quantum computing made an entrance into the data center landscape in 2023, and will likely continue making strides […]
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2023 Green building advances
As 2023 has progressed, the global push for sustainability and eco-conscious decisions remains strong. This is particularly evident for data centers, where green building practices have continued to evolve, pushing the boundaries that were once limitations. Along with the new, there are ‘re’-newed practices that are helping us pave the way towards a more sustainable and […]
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AI growth and the data center
The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is necessitating overall redesigns in data center infrastructure. AI's complex workloads require the integration of more graphic processing units (GPUs), tensor processing units (TPUs), and accelerators, which in turn demand higher power and generate more heat, and that increase in density is bound to ripple throughout how a facility […]
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Next green building initiatives and LEED v5
Green building initiatives have been launched across companies, organizations, and industries throughout the last decades. More webcasts, podcasts, conferences, standards, and classifications have been developed, scrutinized, and codified for the laymen and industry experts alike. By all accounts, the green ‘movement’ has been a success for awareness that has developed into action for developers to […]
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Communication overload is over
We are constantly bombarded with information from an ever-increasing variety of sources. Just think of the number of social media applications released over the last year or two and how some have faded and others have dominated. Decades ago communication was mostly via land line telephones, radio, and broadcast TV. Numbers were written down in […]
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False Information
There continues to be a flurry of articles homing in on the data center industry, calling it out as a wasteful, inefficient use of resources on top of being noisy energy hogs that also detract from the landscapes they occupy. The write ups aim to tap into the emotional attachment of the reader to the resources […]
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AI Boom
The AI boom has taken off worldwide, with many new and old companies in the sector investing in the latest technology, such as the nVidia platform, causing those manufacturer values to soar ever higher. Now the equipment that so many has purchased is starting to be delivered, allowing a real surge of technology to gobble up […]
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Photovoltaic energy payback
We’re recently gone through the exercise of energy return ratios for photovoltaic (PV) energy generation, as we had yet another ‘expert engineer’ and ‘LEED data center expert’ claim that photovoltaic sources never paid back the amount of energy based on their production. Statements like this were common in the 1980’s, 90’s, and even early 2000’s. […]
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Batteries 2023
There have been reservations about implementing Lithium-Ion (LI) batteries for data centers, however they have been the preferred energy source for most portable power needs, from cell phones to electric vehicles. Although the electrolyte was deemed a safety hazard due to flammability and overall runaway thermal gain, many industries have reacted to ensure safety features, monitoring, […]
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Jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon?
Would you be surprised if this was written by a generative text AI such as ChatGPT? It wasn’t, but now this is entirely possible, unlike even a year ago. And often when a ‘buzz-targeting’ TV report or article is presented to an audience there is the twist reveal that some or all of it was written by […]
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