Episode 68 - How Cryogenic CMOS Could Solve The AI Energy Challenge, With Synopsys' Jamil Kawa And William Ruby DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show podcast

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In this podcast episode, we speak to Harry Keeling, head of business development - new markets at Rolls Royce. Listen in to hear more about the rise of small modular reactors, Rolls Royce SMR’s business model, and the potential of SMRs in powering the data center sector.

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Episode 83 - Data sovereignty and cloud competition in the UK, with Mark Boost, Civo 36:31

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With global political uncertainty, data sovereignty has become a key conversation for governments, enterprises, and cloud providers alike. In this episode, we talk to Civo’s Mark Boost about the importance of data sovereignty - as well as establishing a definition - and how this links to the ongoing issue of increasing competition in the cloud market beyond the US hyperscalers. We also touch on how the UK’s CMA investigation, and whether such anticompetitive investigations really go far enough.…

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Episode 82 – Pivoting from crypto to AI colocation with Core Scientific's Matt Brown 45:41

5 weeks ago45:41

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In this episode, we talk to Core Scientific COO Matt Brown about the company’s pivot away from housing cryptomining rigs to hosting GPUs for the likes of AI cloud firm CoreWeave. We talk about the wider crypto market and why the move to AI hosting is becoming so common, the rise of the neoclouds and why they’re willing to work with companies that might not be used to working to Tier III-quality uptime requirements, and Matt’s own experience coming to the crypto space from world of traditional colo.…

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Episode 81 - Telecom tower opportunities in Africa and the Middle East with Sainesh Vallabh, Helios Towers 23:52

9 weeks ago23:52

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In this episode, we talk to Sainesh Vallabh, group chief commercial officer, Helios Towers, about the company’s strategic focus to drive tenants to its mobile tower infrastructure. Sainesh explains the company’s plans for the year, opportunities to look at new markets, and the challenges that Africa and the Middle East present for Helios.…

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Episode 80 - Old blighty with Mike Hoy, Pulsant 27:17

11 weeks ago27:17

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In this episode, we are staying in the editorial team’s home county - the UK. Pulsant is a regional Edge provider focusing on the UK market, and has recently launched a new Sovereign Cloud offering. We talk with Pulsant’s CTO Mike Hoy about the data center industry in the UK in the context of the Labour government, how enterprise strategies are changing in relation to cloud deployments, and discuss the ongoing CMA investigation into the cloud services market.…

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Bonus episode - Introducing SDxCentral, with exec editor Dan Meyer 42:07

12 weeks ago42:07

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DCD's EiC Sebastian Moss talks to SDxCentral executive editor Dan Meyer about what it means for the two publications to work together, and what we can learn about the current tech cycle from previous booms and busts.

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Episode 79 - Competing clouds with Kevin Cochrane, Vultr 30:06

13 weeks ago30:06

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With the cloud market in a constant war for market share, alternative providers to the “big three” have emerged. With 32 regions globally, Vultr has a huge worldwide reach, and claims to be able to offer core cloud services (and GPUs) at a significantly lower cost than the hyperscalers. In this episode, Kevin Cochrane joins us to discuss the cloud computing market, how Vultr is able to offer its services for less, and the company's push into AI.…

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Episode 78 - Optimizing Linux to cut data center energy use, with Prof. Martin Karsten and Joe Domato, Fastly 28:54

15 weeks ago28:54

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Could changing just 30 lines of code in Linux help cut data center energy use? In this episode, we speak to Professor Martin Karsten, professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and Joe Domato, distinguished engineer at Fastly, about their work optimizing the Linux kernel, which could have big implications if applied by digital infrastructure operators…

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Bonus episode - Understanding AWS' chip strategy with Gadi Hutt 47:49

16 weeks ago47:49

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In a compute world dominated by Nvidia, hyperscalers are looking to build out their own semiconductor infrastructure capable of training and inference workloads at scale. We chat to AWS product manager Gadi Hutt about his company's approach, based on its 2016 Annapurna Labs acquisition. We talk about Trainium and Inferentia, how the company balances against its GPU fleet, and what it's cooking with Anthropic and Rainier.…

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Episode 77 - Are utilities overstating data center demand growth? Talking to Cathy Kunkel, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis 28:45

17 weeks ago28:45

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In this episode, we talk to Cathy Kunkel, energy consultant at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, about a recent report she authored on the increased buildout of gas power plants and pipelines in the Southeast US, driven by the projected growth of data center load.

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Episode 76 - Start(ing) again in Portugal with Omer Wilson, Start Campus 35:47

19 weeks ago35:47

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The start campus data center project has big dreams, aiming to build a 1.2GW data center campus in Sines, Portugal. While things have progressed on the campus, its entanglement in the corruption probe that saw the Prime Minister resign and led to the arrest of several of Start’s executives including then CEO Afonso Salema caused some hiccups. With the charges now dropped (and a new CEO in place) and the first data center on the campus live, Start is back on the grind to see the project through to fruition. Omer Wilson, chief marketing officer at Start Campus, talks to DCD about the project, and addresses the issue of starting again, after such a disruption.…

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Episode 75 - Data centers under the hammer with Julian Hennessy, Telehouse Europe 25:21

21 weeks ago25:21

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In this episode, we talk to Julian Hennessy, projects director at Telehouse Europe, about the company’s most recent project in the London Docklands area. The Telehouse South facility was entirely retrofitted with a mission to strive for better sustainability. Julian explains the challenges and the benefits of retrofitting in the London data center landscape.…

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Episode 74 - Spreading awareness of the data center industry with Carrie Goetz 37:40

23 weeks ago37:40

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Carrie Goetz is the definition of an industry veteran. With decades of experience, she now works as a “fractional CTO” via her StrategITcom company, but over the years she has done a lot of outreach work to bring in new faces to the sector, not to mention the several books she has written. Tune in to hear about Goetz’ career so far, and her perspective on how we can bring in a new generation of data center obsessives…

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Bonus Episode - The need for basic science research, with Vint Cerf 29:13

24 weeks ago29:13

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US scientific research institutions are under attack. DOGE-led cuts to National Science Foundation funding, caps on indirect research costs, firings at the National Institutes of Health, layoffs at the Department of Energy, and more will profoundly weaken the US' scientific standing. But what does this mean for the country, for companies, and for the data center sector? We speak to the 'father of the Internet' Vint Cerf, co-developer of the TCP/IP protocol, about why the Internet had to come out of government-backed research, what he learned from his time at the National Science Board, and how we can win back our future.…

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Episode 73 - Understanding Stargate's Masayoshi Son, with Lionel Barber 48:45

25 weeks ago48:45