DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

DCD speaks to Aric Li, director of data center energy at non-profit Sijbrandij Foundation, about how regulators and legislators are changing the game for US data center developers, and how the sector is reacting to it

The UK telecoms market has seen significant M&A activity in the past decade, and that looks set to continue in the fiber broadband market. BT’s recent announcement that it will acquire TalkTalk hasn’t gone down well with some of its rivals, amid the CMA’s negative view of Nexfibre’s proposed Netomnia deal.
What do these deals mean for the UK market? Kester Mann, director, consumer and connectivity, FDM CCS Insight, talks to DCD about these deals and more.

Academic institutions and research facilities have long turned to HPC for research purposes, but today they are increasingly seeking AI capacity to further their exploits. 
While the drive is there, access to hardware and knowledge of orchestrating such workloads remains a challenge. In this episode, we talk to Stephan Fabel - CEO of ThisWay Global and former head of Nvidia DGX Cloud - about some of the challenges facing the sector and why he feels so strongly about the importance of bringing AI to sectors that need it.

DCD talks to Arka Chanda, an associate at the Centre for Economic Transition Expertise based at the London School of Economics.
Arka was one of several experts who spoke at the UK government’s Environmental Audit Committee about the risks and opportunities to the sustainability of data centers in the UK, and we talk about the impact of data centers on emissions, why it's difficult to get concrete statistics on data centers, and what an alternative future for data center development looks like.

After a short break, Bernard Borghei is back in the tower industry with his latest venture, Connected Infra Group. Borghei tells DCD about the company’s plans to expand its tower portfolio across the US, and discusses opportunities for the market in the coming years.