The Data Center Frontier Show

AI data centers are creating a new kind of power problem. As thousands of GPUs ramp together, fast and synchronized changes in electrical demand can place new pressure on UPS systems, generators and the broader power infrastructure supporting the compute load.

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Frank DeLattre, President Americas at Musashi Energy Solutions, about how hybri...

AI and high-performance computing are changing how data centers are designed and powered. Rack densities have more than doubled in recent years, and power demands continue to climb. For data center operators and engineers, the pressure to scale faster, reconfigure more often, and support higher loads has made the power distribution decisions more important than ever. This QuickChat video will focus on overhead busway as the optima...

Using AI UPS Systems to Tame AI Load Swings

AI data centers are creating a power challenge that goes beyond simply securing enough megawatts. Large AI computing clusters can introduce rapid swings in electricity demand, creating new power-quality and grid-stability concerns for utilities and data center operators. In this interview recorded live at the 2026 Data Center Frontier Trends Summit, DCF Contributing Editor Doug Black spea...

Uptime and cooling performance both depend on something that is often overlooked during the data system design process: power quality. In this podcast, "Power Quality: The Conversation Data Centers Can't Afford to Ignore," we talk with a Power Quality expert about harmonic distortion in data centers — what it is, how it is created, and how poor power quality impacts data center cooling, uptime and performance. We will also di...

Communities across the U.S. are being asked to make increasingly consequential decisions about data centers at the same time that AI infrastructure development is moving faster than traditional municipal planning processes.

On this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Ilissa Miller, founder and CEO of iMiller Public Relations and a b...

As data centers race to support AI workloads, liquid cooling, and accelerated construction timelines, operators are facing new challenges around reliability, efficiency, and infrastructure visibility. Many facilities still rely on commercial-grade instrumentation across critical cooling and utility systems, creating blind spots that can increase operational risk and reduce confidence in performance.

In this episode, we explore why ...

As AI data centers follow available power into new markets, network infrastructure is moving much earlier into the site selection process.

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Scott Bergs, CEO of Kirkwood Infrastructure Group, about how hyperscale and high-density compute are changing the physical network requirements behind ...

AI data center development may begin with power, but it increasingly depends on whether connectivity can be built at the same scale and on the same schedule.

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, speaks with Jeff Wabik, CTO of DC Blox,...

The AI infrastructure race is largely about getting more computing into data centers faster. But increasingly, operators also need a plan for getting yesterday’s hardware back out while it still has value.

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, recorded live at the third annual DCF Trends Summit in Reston, Virginia, DCF Contributing Editor Doug Black speaks with Jos...

As AI workloads continue to reshape the data center landscape, operators are looking for practical ways to evolve existing infrastructure without overbuilding for tomorrow. In this conversation, we explore how intelligent rack power infrastructure can help data centers support both traditional and AI workloads while improving visibility, efficiency and scalability.

The discussion covers the role of intellig...

AI is changing more than compute—it is changing how the entire physical infrastructure of the data center must be designed. In this episode, we'll explore why organizations should stop thinking about cabinets, power and cooling as separate decisions and instead view them as an integrated system. We'll discuss how this approach improves efficiency, simplifies deployment and creates a more flexible foundation for high-density A...

Community acceptance may be emerging as one of the most consequential constraints on data center growth.

On this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Buddy Rizer, Executive Director of Loudoun County Economic Development, and Adam Waitkunas, founder of Milldam Public Relations, about the rising political and community resistance conf...

Optics is no longer a supporting accessory in the data center network. As AI infrastructure advances from 400G and 800G toward 1.6-terabit connectivity, optical components are consuming a larger share of network cost, power and operational risk.

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Bill Gartner, Senior Vice President and Gene...

AI infrastructure is rewriting the energy playbook.

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, Sage Geosystems CEO Cindy Taff joins DCF Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent to discuss how the explosive growth of AI has shifted data center priorities from long-term decarbonization goals toward the immediate challenge of securing enough power, quickly and in the right location.

This conversation is about how the demands on data centers are changing and what that means for the systems that support them. As AI and high performance computing continue to scale, cooling is no longer a background function. It is central to whether these environments operate efficiently and reliably.

Liquid cooling is becoming more common because it can handle the heat loads that air cooling cannot. But as systems move in that d...

AI is no longer simply another fast-growing demand segment for the data center industry. It has become the “organizing principle” around which development strategy, infrastructure design and market selection are increasingly structured.

On this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Colby Cox, Managing Director for the Amer...

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent sits down with Data Center Frontier Contributing Editor Bill Kleyman, CEO and co-founder of Apolo, to preview the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026, taking place August 4–6 in Reston, Virginia.

This year’s Summit arrives at a defining moment for the data center industry. After two ye...

For years, AI infrastructure conversations have focused primarily on securing enough power to support increasingly dense compute environments. But as hyperscale AI campuses scale toward gigawatt deployments, another resource is rapidly becoming just as consequential: water.

On this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent is joined by Leif Percifield, Chief Product Officer at Emergence Wate...

Artificial intelligence will continue to transform how data centers are designed, built, and operated, placing new demands on energy systems, infrastructure, and reliability. As AI workloads grow more intensive and always‑on, meeting these challenges will require a coordinated, systems‑level approach. 

In this episode, Patrick Hughes, SVP of Technical and Industry Affairs at the National Electrical Manufact...