The Data Center Frontier Show

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Welcome to the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, telling the story of the data center industry and its future. Our podcast is hosted by the editors of Data Center Frontier, who are your guide to the ongoing digital transformation, explaining how next-generation technologies are changing our world, and the critical role the data center industry plays in creating this extraordinary future.

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Phillip Koblence, COO and Co-Founder, NYI; Co-Founder, Nomad Futurist

Apr 16 2024 35 mins  
For this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent sits down for an instructive chat with Phillip Koblence, a strategic executive and ubiquitous thought leader in the data center and network space. Koblence co-founded NYI in 1996 and has successfully navigated through an ever-shifting infrastructure landscape, growing the company from a sing

NVIDIA, Equinix, JetCool Experts Talk Data Center Liquid Cooling, GTC 2024 AI Conference Trends

Apr 02 2024 29 mins  
As recorded on March 22, 2024, this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show Podcast featured the following participants: • Matt Vincent, Editor in Chief and Podcast Host, Data Center Frontier • Ali Heydari, Technical Director and Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA • Marcus Hopwood, Product Management Director, Equinix • Bernie Malouin, CEO and Founder, JetCool The podcast disc

Flexential CIO Jason Carolan Unpacks the Data Center Industry's NVIDIA Moment

Mar 19 2024 30 mins  
For this episode of the DCF Show podcast, we interview Jason Carolan, Chief Innovation Officer at data center operator Flexential. He’s a 25-year expert in the enterprise IT industry, with experience leading companies through technological evolutions like the one we’re experiencing right now. Carolan believes there is a bigger story to uncover from the sheer dollar amount of Nv

Data Center PR Practice Fosters Coalitions, Community Outreach to Reduce Development Backlash

Mar 05 2024 24 mins  
This January, Milldam Public Relations announced the launch of its Data Center Community Relations Service, which the company's President and Founder Adam Waitkunas claims is the first community relations service exclusively serving the data center space and the digital infrastructure sector. In addition to tailormade communication strategies, Adam contends that data center communi

Data Center Construction and DFW Market Talk with Burns & McDonnell

Feb 20 2024 32 mins  
For this episode of the DCF Show podcast, Data Center Frontier's Editor in Chief Matt Vincent and Senior Editor David Chernicoff speak with Burns & McDonnell's Robert Bonar, PE, LEED AP, Vice President, Mission Critical Facilities, and Christine Wood, Vice President leading the firm's Dallas-Fort Worth Global Facilities practice. Burns & McDonnell is a provider of engineeri

The Top 5 Data Center Industry Stories of Q4

Feb 13 2024 31 mins  
For this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, it's financial earnings call season, so Editor in Chief Matt Vincent and Senior Editor David Chernicoff take the opportunity to discuss DCF's top 5 most popular data center and cloud computing industry stories for the fourth quarter of 2023, which were as follows: 1. Dominion: Virginia’s Data Center Cluster Could Double i

Interview: Steve Madden, Equinix VP of Digital Transformation and Segmentation Marketing

Jan 30 2024 24 mins  
Even in a month where Equinix very notably rolled out its fully managed private cloud service for enabling enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure, the better to build and run custom generative AI models, there was yet another, not unrelated, announcement from the foundational provider of colocation data centers and digital tra

The 8 Themes That Will Shape the Data Center Industry in 2024, Part 3

Jan 23 2024 9 mins  
This month on the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, we read down site founder and Editor at Large Rich Miller's annual data center industry trends forecast. This week's article read looks at how AI is driving design updates for power and cooling, why air permitting at scale is a hot potato for the industry, and optimal site selection for Green MegaCampuses. Rich Miller has deliver

Hyperscale LED Lighting Approach A Pathfinder for All Data Centers

Jan 16 2024 33 mins  
For this episode of the DCF Show podcast, Data Center Frontier spoke with Sam Rabinowitz, CEO of Lantana, a supplier and provider of LED luminaires for the data center industry -- especially for hyperscalers, but also for energy-efficiency retrofits in mature facilities. Key discussion points include the following: 0:15 - Lantana broke into the data center industry by working with

The 8 Themes That Will Shape the Data Center Industry in 2024, Part 2

Jan 09 2024 6 mins  
This month on the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, we read down site founder and Editor at Large Rich Miller's annual data center industry trends forecast. Since our industry coverage at DCF throughout the year will frequently refer back to this forecast, we've decided to enumerate all eight themes throughout several podcast episodes this month. Today's read looks at how pricing