Explore every episode of the podcast Green Data Center Podcast
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| Green Data Center Podcast 2025-08 | 27 août 2025 | 00:31:08 | |
Data Center announcements - newly operational & new $B+ campuses Digital Twins with AI developing quickly BlackRock carbon capture to take aim at CO2 industrial emissions Data center Mythbusting: 24/7 generators; elec grid vampires; no jobs Golf steals more water than data centers (about 44 times more) in the U.S. | |||
| 2025-05: Sustainability, Developments, & Tech | 31 mai 2025 | 00:39:32 | |
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 | |||
| 2025-02: Meta AI Data Center; AI test and energy use; NoVA power increase | 22 févr. 2025 | 00:34:37 | |
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 | |||
| 2024-12: Awards 2024; Newest AI data centers | 17 déc. 2024 | 00:31:11 | |
Awards season 2024: iMasons & DCD sustainability and environmental impact | |||
| 2024-10: Nuclear options; IUE; $B M&A to continue? | 31 oct. 2024 | 00:31:19 | |
Nuclear options to satiate power demand? | |||
| 2024-09: AI power; Geothermal Energy; Tract & big development sites; AirTrunk sale | 28 sept. 2024 | 00:38:54 | |
AI power use comparisons | |||
| 2024-07: Tesla DC; Google Report; iMasons Scope 3 ask; AI positivity | 27 juil. 2024 | 00:34:12 | |
Tesla xAI data center in Memphis | |||
| 2024-06: Residential AI Data Center; Fuel Cells & Green Hydrogen; Liquid Cooling; Data Center Success | 22 juin 2024 | 00:32:15 | |
Data center with liquid cooling... in a house | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast: 2024-05: AI Power Demand; Books, Resumes, & Interviews; AI in the data center | 31 mai 2024 | 00:31:37 | |
A book recommendation: Data Center Handbook [Geng, et al.] | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast: 2024-04: 3D printing a DC; DC World & NVTC; Projects and Investments | 27 avr. 2024 | 00:32:11 | |
| Green Data Center Podcast: 2024-02 - AI & Cooling; DC (Direct Current) Power; Science Based Targets & Green Buildings | 24 févr. 2024 | 00:29:47 | |
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| Green Data Center Podcast: 2024-01 - PowerHouse & AWS kickstart 2024; Deeper on Meta | 29 janv. 2024 | 00:31:51 | |
Powerhouse and AWS make moves and investments | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast: 2023-12 - 2023 Summary & Predictions for 2024 | 23 déc. 2023 | 00:26:33 | |
2023: AI changes the data center; Large developers & investments; | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast: 2023-11 - AI boom; Industry Investment; Awards 2023 | 11 nov. 2023 | 00:31:14 | |
| Green Data Center Podcast: Awards Season; M&A; WUE; Grid hardening | 02 déc. 2022 | 00:33:09 | |
iMasons awards | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E08: 1 year; RadiusDC; Carbon Counting; Fuel Cells; Power Constraints; Industry Market Value | 22 sept. 2022 | 00:36:42 | |
1 year of the Green Data Center Podcast | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E07: California Twitter; Recruiting; Etherium Proof of Stake | 16 sept. 2022 | 00:31:11 | |
Twitter goes down in California heat wave; | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E06: IEA.org; Flexential; Heat Waves | 09 sept. 2022 | 00:31:15 | |
International Energy Agency on global data center energy use | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E05: Virginia, Ohio, Philadelphia, Dublin and Outer Space | 02 sept. 2022 | 00:30:34 | |
Touching on some of the developments in major markets, including Columbus Ohio, Northern Virginia, and Philadelphia area; | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E04: Essential Review - Data Halls | 26 août 2022 | 00:29:12 | |
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. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E03: Chinese Standard; Riot Blockchain; Latin American moves; EMEA updates; Chip shortage update | 19 août 2022 | 00:34:24 | |
China Standard | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E02: Compass expansions; PWC Digital Gateway; Helsinki energy savings; Decarbonization plan for your existing DC | 15 août 2022 | 00:35:09 | |
Compass Data Centers expansions in Italy & Northern Virginia; | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S4E01: Google updates; Power increases still coming; Hydrogen Fuel Cells; The Big Short? | 10 août 2022 | 00:36:25 | |
Highlights on a few Google challenges and successes | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E11: Industry News and Updates | 11 juil. 2022 | 00:30:40 | |
Industry news, including: | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E10 - Green Financing - UPS put to work - Government DCOI updates - 500W processors | 29 juin 2022 | 00:32:42 | |
Updates on more green and sustainable financing | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E09: Subsea for Singapore? - Microgrids revisited - Renovate! | 21 juin 2022 | 00:31:56 | |
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? | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E08: ESGs - ASHRAE Thermal Guidelines 5th Edition - New York vs. Cryptomining | 10 juin 2022 | 00:34:01 | |
In-depth review of ESGs, what's included, and why they matter | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E07: OVHCloud fire - Frontier exascale - Energy Trend - Greenwashing | 03 juin 2022 | 00:33:05 | |
OVHCloud fire follow-up - | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E06: Sustainable Protocols & Standards - Broadcom & VMWare - HPE to launch big AI | 27 mai 2022 | 00:31:03 | |
GHG, SASB, GRI, TCFD, ERI protocols and standards | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E05: Another $10B+ merger? - Singapore moratorium - Climate Neutral DC Pact | 20 mai 2022 | 00:37:44 | |
Global switch seems to be looking for a $10B buyer | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E04: Switch & Digital Bridge - Quantum Loophole - Quantum Computing | 13 mai 2022 | 00:29:24 | |
Switch & Digital Bridge acquisition | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E03: Energy Star - What is DEEP? - Data center news | 06 mai 2022 | 00:36:00 | |
Data center certification programs... Energy Star evolution to the brand new DEEP certification. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E02: Physical Security, iMasons Climate Accord, Impossible Circuit, Fire! | 29 avr. 2022 | 00:32:24 | |
Physical security for data center facilities revisited | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S3E01: Earth Day News; Back to Basics Definitions | 22 avr. 2022 | 00:31:26 | |
Earth Day 2022: Invest in Our Planet - what has the data center industry done over the last year? | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E11: Alibaba Green DC; Apple Downtime (again); Blockchaining efficiency | 25 mars 2022 | 00:33:19 | |
Alibaba has the greenest data center in China; Start for FREE Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E10: Using data center assets to help the grid; cyber security revisited | 18 mars 2022 | 00:31:00 | |
It is possible to utilize the data center UPS & battery systems to help with grid peaks and stability - but is that a good green idea? | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E09: Local rezoning details; Energy Certifications | 14 mars 2022 | 00:31:59 | |
Revisiting Loudoun County, Virginia data center growth plan details as an indicator of how to plan for new facilities & infrastructure; | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E08: Can Cryptocurrency be Green?; Chiplet CPUs coming to a data center near you | 04 mars 2022 | 00:32:26 | |
Another review of the amount of energy the current cryptocurrencies are using, compared to centralized systems, and how to choose greener; Chiplet production is ramping up with a new standard - data center power density will increase accordingly | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E07: Data Centers & Cyberwars; Whole Life Carbon Assessments | 25 févr. 2022 | 00:31:07 | |
As the attack on Ukraine by Russia intensifies, the cyberwar also heats up - quick overview of how DDoS attacks affect data centers. Whole Life Carbon Assessments aim to become new performance metric to track carbon with everything included. Global server growth to be +5% per year. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S206: Public resistance; Why colos should go green | 18 févr. 2022 | 00:30:41 | |
In-depth review of two locations where data center development is getting resistance from the public: Zeewolde, Netherlands; and Prince William County, VA, USA. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E05: Green Mountain; Energy Storage | 11 févr. 2022 | 00:29:18 | |
Data center of the Month: Green Mountain; | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E04: February News: Moving into Africa; DataBank; Meta; OVHCloud; Singapore moratorium | 04 févr. 2022 | 00:33:39 | |
News around the data center industry for February 2022; | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E03: Back to Basics Electrical; Meta Supercomputer | 28 janv. 2022 | 00:29:33 | |
By request, we review the basic power path from grid to chip. Also, Meta (formerly Facebook) continues to advance their supercomputer, with the goal of being the fastest AI supercomputer in the world before the year ends. Questions on 'biggest data center company' and 'best certification' are also answered. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E02: Top Markets; Zero Energy vs. Zero Carbon | 21 janv. 2022 | 00:32:57 | |
The largest markets throughout the world have been ranked for 2021 growth and sustainability by major developers, investors, and market watchers. The top 10 and next tier markets are discussed for how they got there as well as challenges that will lead to further growth in upcoming market cities. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast S2E01: 2022 Predications & Trends; News; Conference Planning | 14 janv. 2022 | 00:30:12 | |
A new year, and it's time to look ahead at the things that may come to pass in 2022. By looking at some of the changes over 2021, we can start to see what lies on the path ahead. Plus a few green data center news-worthy items, and a quick touch on the conferences that are likely to be worthwhile to plan to attend, in-person or virtually, to learn more about the industry. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast 13: 2021 Awards & Sustainable Financing | 17 déc. 2021 | 00:32:59 | |
There are a lot of events & awards toward the end of the year, and we'll review the ones most relevant for the green data center industry. Also we review the growth of sustainable & green financing via an example from Flexential's new green deal, | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast 12: Cooling & Mechanical Basics | 10 déc. 2021 | 00:34:48 | |
Upon request, the basics of mechanical cooling systems are covered, from hot & cold aisles to the data center air & water systems to heat rejection and the equipment involved end-to-end to keep the data centers running without overheating. | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast 11: December 2021 News | 03 déc. 2021 | 00:30:14 | |
Updates from around the industry, including:
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| Green Data Center Podcast 10: Cryptocurrencies & Kazakhstan | 29 nov. 2021 | 00:30:06 | |
Kazakhstan has had a recent series of power shortages and blackouts, leading to the country clamping down on the cryptocurrency miners that have moved in from China. How much does crypto mining work? How much power are we talking about for Bitcoin, Etherium, and others? And what is next for the mostly blockchain based digital currencies? | |||
| Green Data Center Podcast 09: Quantum Computing & November Acquisitions | 19 nov. 2021 | 00:31:20 | |
Recent acquisitions of CoreSite & CyrusOne are the largest in the industry to date; what it means for each as well as the buyers. Quantum computing continues to grow as the applications and logistics advance; but are they poised to help or consume more energy than ever? | |||