Not Your Father’s Data Center

When choosing a location, data centers often look for a location close to their end customers and one where there’s cheap electricity. Water was an afterthought, said Pedro Sancha , Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nalco Water , but that’s beginning to change. With water needed to cool the data center, companies were bringing in Nalco after realizing they didn’t have the right permits...

With their constantly whirring server fans and enormous cooling systems in cavernous buildings, data centers seem to be sucking up a lot of energy and contributing more than their fair share to climate change. But are they? Dr. Eric Masanet and several colleagues decided to put it to the test. What they found is that, while demand for compute instances has gone up sixfold, the energy trend is clos...

The United States' internet has been put to the test over the last six weeks, as almost the entire country has moved to streaming, learning and communicating from one wireless network. This increase in data need begs the question - what will our Internet look like as we move into a connected future post-pandemic? “Not Your Father’s Data Center” explores this question and how edge data centers fit...

Pedro Matser started KyotoCooling some 15 years ago when he and his colleagues were asked by a data and telecommunications center in the Netherlands to find a more efficient process. “We sat down with a group of people to come up with an energy-efficient solution,” Matser said on this episode of Not Your Father’s Data Center. He and his colleagues ran through their options, including traditional h...

On this episode of the Not Your Father's Data Center podcast, guests Buddy Rizer and Dave Liggett join host Raymond Hawkins to look ahead to 2020. Rizer has been in the data center business since the beginning. Before he took the leap, Rizer took time to get to know the industry, then filled the data centers. Rizer said that it was “such a new industry” that he was the only economic developer at t...

Cloud computing appeared to experience a bit of a lull in the market in 2019. Raymond Hawkins , the host of Not Your Father’s Data Center and Chief Revenue Officer for Compass Datacenters , noted that the apparent 2019 lull came after a robust year in 2018. There are two primary questions that come from this observation. Was there actually a lull? And what does 2020 look like? Hawkins posed those...