Sustainability: Water, Energy, & AI gold rush; cyclical economy & recycling

DC Developments: Expansion everywhere - powered land becomes a project; NIMBY & regulatory push-back

Technology Impacts: AI for AI, diverse IT hardware, and prepping for what is next with flexibility

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Meta DC in northeast LA: 4M sqft, infrastructure and build increases in a rural area

AI testing of scripts for fun: good, better, best from the major brands

Northern VA power demand up from 21GW to 40GW since July 2024

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Awards season 2024: iMasons & DCD sustainability and environmental impact
New AI data center design by AWS & new Meta AI data center in Louisiana 

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Nuclear options to satiate power demand?
Infrastructure Usage Effectiveness 
The billion+ $$$ mergers and acquisitions continue

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AI power use comparisons
Sage Geosystems & Meta make a deal for 150MW of geothermal energy
Tract acquires 2k+ acres, 1.8GW near Phoenix, AZ
AirTruck bidding at $13.5B (USD)

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Tesla xAI data center in Memphis
Reviewing Google's year-over-year sustainability efforts & report
iMasons Climate Accord committee requests all vendors provide Scope 3 verified data
AI benefits for sustainability, climate, energy and more. 

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Data center with liquid cooling... in a house
Revisiting fuel cell viability as big, green hydrogen centers come online
Why liquid cooling is still ramping up across the industry
Achieving success in the data center industry

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A book recommendation: Data Center Handbook [Geng, et al.]
Interviews & Resume preparation
AI & power demand: paths ahead and lessons from NoVA
AI in the data center

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• AI & data center cooling - ARPA-E initiatives
• Direct Current Power to support AI deployments
• Science Based Targets guidelines released for the building industry

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Powerhouse and AWS make moves and investments
Meta deeper dive: Indiana site shows new design, OCP v3 rack, & AI

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2023: AI changes the data center; Large developers & investments; 
Sustainability surges
2024: AI improves itself; Sustainability as a Strategy (the new SaaS definition)

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AI boom
Updates in the industry 
Awards season 2023: DCD & iMasons

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iMasons awards
DCD awards finalists
Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments
Water Usage Effectiveness
Power & Grid Hardening

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1 year of the Green Data Center Podcast
RadiusDC and IPI
Carbon counting discussion from JLL forum & iMasons 
Fuel Cells - hydrogen & natural gas
Power constraints in the major data center markets 
Total data center industry market value - now to 2030

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Twitter goes down in California heat wave;
Recruiting the next generation
Etherium finally switches over to Proof of Stake

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International Energy Agency on global data center energy use
Economy, tech firms, and data center jobs
Flexential in the news
Data center growth
Heat waves in the UK and California

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Touching on some of the developments in major markets, including Columbus Ohio, Northern Virginia, and Philadelphia area; 
Data centers (racks) in space... truly lights out, hands off

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This episode focuses on the data halls (aka IT room, white space, red zone, etc.) and some of the different types and aspects for those who may not have walked through many data centers yet.  
Data Center Cleaning
Data Hall Commissioning 

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China Standard 
Riot Blockchain makes more from power sales
Latin America - Chile, Mexico 
Dublin, Holland, Paris updates
Chip shortage & secondary markets

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Compass Data Centers expansions in Italy & Northern Virginia; 
Prince William County Digital Gateway; 
Helen Energy in Helsinki reusing data center heat; 
Existing data centers and your sustainability/decarbonization plan

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Highlights on a few Google challenges and successes
Server component power increases will continue a steady rise
Hydrogen fuel cells testing well at Microsoft - can it scale?
Calling out Jim Chanos's short on data center REITS 

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Industry news, including:
Wyoming WhiteBox 
iMasons nominations 
Renewable Energy Credits
U.S. Congress Chip Act

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Updates on more green and sustainable financing
MSFT and Eaton engage UPS systems to even out the data center & the grid
U.S. Government DCOI program update 
Cooling approaches for the upcoming 500W processors

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Subsea Cloud proposed to sink data center containers under the waves off the coast of Singapore in an attempt to navigate around the moratorium - will it sail through?
Microgrids revisited after questions on overall benefits
Renovating your data center can be much cheaper, greener, and faster than ever before - don't neglect safety, security, and reliability

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