Episode 93 - Assessing the UK’s fiber landscape with Lee Myall, Neos Networks
The UK wants more data centers. The government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, announced in January, is driving operators to look outside of Greater London. We talk to Lee Myall, CEO of Neos Networks – a B2B fiber provider in the UK – about the state of the UK’s connectivity infrastructure, what kind of delays are faced by data center operators in the country, and the impact of AI workloads on fiber buildouts.
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Bonus episode - The world of data center funding with Brian Pryor, Houlihan Lokey
At DCD, we frequently cover stories about data centers getting funding, mergers and acquisitions, and investment in general. But we rarely get to talk to the investment bankers about it. In this episode, we discuss the current financial market in the data center industry - the trends Pryor is seeing, and the inevitability of the AI bubble. Tune it to hear what an investment banker focused on the technology sector thinks of the current climate.
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Episode 92 - Decarbonizing district heating through data center waste heat with Drew Turner, Danfoss
DCD speaks to Drew Turner, director of global decarbonization solutions at Danfoss, about how data center waste heat can be best utilized across district heating systems in Europe and further afield.
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Bonus Episode - How AI changed the regional Edge game with Tesh Durvasula, AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge emerged in 2021 after Liberty Global and Digital Bridge combined their European assets to make an “Edge” data center player on the continent. Initially, the company targeted smaller data centers - previously positing 4-6MW as the largest it would deploy when talking to DCD, but things have changed. The world has changed. Durvasula was hired in May 2024 and has since been leading the company through the new era, one where it's embracing larger facilities that before, and that’s for one simple reason: AI. We discuss the changing strategy and what AtlasEdge looks like today.
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Episode 91 - A fast lane for data center grid connection with Amit Narayan, GridCARE
GridCARE is utilizing AI to identify hidden capacity on the grid, enabling significantly faster connection times for data centers. We speak to its CEO - Amit Narayan - to find out how.
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DCD Zero Downtime is DCD's editorially-led podcast. In each episode, our editorial team will be talking with leading members of the data center and digital infrastructure community, delving deeper into the future of the industry and its major challenges.