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DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
DatacenterDynamics
103 episodes
4 days ago
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.
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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.
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DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
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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4 days ago
37 minutes 13 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 90 - The financial side of data centers, with Julie Brewer, EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure

There is plenty of talk about power and land availability, but another hurdle to data center growth and development is capital. 

In this episode, we talk to Julie Brewer, EdgeCore’s EVP of finance, about the different ways data center developers and operators can secure funding - be it through equity or debt. 

In addition, we discuss how Brewer’s experience of secure funding has varied between her roles, from the retail colocation space, to hyperscaler properties. 


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2 weeks ago
30 minutes 40 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Bonus episode - Forming a cryptomining venture with Donald Trump's sons while pivoting to AI data centers with Asher Genoot, Hut8

The price of Bitcoin might be higher than ever, but that isn’t stopping companies from pivoting to hosting AI and HPC infrastructure as well as cryptomining rigs.

In this episode of DCD>Zero Downtime, Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot talks about the company’s pivot away from mining cryptocurrencies to become a data center provider for both the crypto and AI sectors, and how to create a base facility design that can tailor to both worlds.

He also talks about the American Bitcoin venture the company has formed with Eric and Donald Trump Junior, and what the sons of the US president are like to work with.

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3 weeks ago
43 minutes 33 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 89 - Can we power data centers behind the meter via clean power? With Alex Goodall, Xela Energy

DCD sits down with Alex Goodall, CEO of Xela Energy, to discuss the company’s rebrand from Clean Energy Capital, and how it aims to deliver behind-the-meter renewable power to the UK’s data center market.


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1 month ago
33 minutes 51 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 88 - Building a fiber network for AI with Bill Long, Zayo Group

In this episode, DCD catches up with Bill Long, CPO at Zayo Group, to discuss the company’s long-haul fiber build across the US to support the growing demands of AI workloads. Long also discusses Zayo’s acquisition of Crown Castle’s fiber assets and why the Macro Edge provides a worthwhile opportunity. 


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1 month ago
32 minutes 11 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Bonus episode - An energy OS for data centers with Drew Barrett, Zendo Energy

Earlier this year, Zendo Energy emerged from stealth and launched an "Energy OS" to enhance energy procurement for the data center industry.

DCD speaks to Drew Barrett, COO at Zendo, about the launch and the broader energy market.


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1 month ago
29 minutes 25 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 87 - The rise of hollow core fiber with Jason Eichenholz, Relativity Networks

In this episode, DCD chats with Jason Eichenholz, CEO of Relativity Networks, about hollow core fiber (HCF). Eichenholz details the latest developments of the technology, plus its potential to support the AI data center boom, and whether HCF can have an impact on the telecoms sector. 


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2 months ago
41 minutes 32 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 86 - Power from below (geothermal energy) with Ben King, Rhodium Group

In this episode, we chat to Ben King, associate director with Rhodium Group's Energy & Climate practice, who provides an in-depth look into the US geothermal sector.

We explore the exciting world of enhanced geothermal power and how, if scaled, it could provide enough energy to meet skyrocketing data center demand across the US.

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2 months ago
41 minutes 30 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 85 - Making critical infrastructure think with Jad Jebara, Hyperview

AI is changing how data centers operate, and particularly in the case of retrofit facilities, it is more important than ever that operators have all the data they need to ensure uptime. 

We talk to Jad Jebara, CEO and president of Hyperview - an AI-powered DCIM provider - about some of the pitfalls data center operators are falling into as they handle more demanding workloads, and how a surprising number of operators are still actually using Excel for capacity planning.


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2 months ago
35 minutes 47 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Bonus episode - Clouds and AI inference, with Cirrascale's CEO David Driggers

What does it take to run a cloud provider in 2025?

We chat to David Driggers about Cirrascale, a company older than the neoclouds, but without the deep pockets of the hyperscalers, about how the company is carving its own path in an increasingly crowded market.

Plus, we hear about the current AI inference market, and where growth opportunities lie.

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3 months ago
53 minutes 3 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 84 - Small modular solutions to big power problems with Harry Keeling, Rolls Royce SMR

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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3 months ago
44 minutes 23 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 83 - Data sovereignty and cloud competition in the UK, with Mark Boost, Civo

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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3 months ago
36 minutes 31 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 82 – Pivoting from crypto to AI colocation with Core Scientific's Matt Brown

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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4 months ago
45 minutes 41 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 81 - Telecom tower opportunities in Africa and the Middle East with Sainesh Vallabh, Helios Towers

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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5 months ago
23 minutes 52 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 80 - Old blighty with Mike Hoy, Pulsant


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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5 months ago
27 minutes 17 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Bonus episode - Introducing SDxCentral, with exec editor Dan Meyer

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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5 months ago
42 minutes 7 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 79 - Competing clouds with Kevin Cochrane, Vultr

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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6 months ago
30 minutes 6 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 78 - Optimizing Linux to cut data center energy use, with Prof. Martin Karsten and Joe Domato, Fastly

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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6 months ago
28 minutes 54 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Bonus episode - Understanding AWS' chip strategy with Gadi Hutt

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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6 months ago
47 minutes 49 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
Episode 77 - Are utilities overstating data center demand growth? Talking to Cathy Kunkel, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

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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7 months ago
28 minutes 45 seconds

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
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.