The Data Center Frontier Show
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.
Episodes
A look at the major trends shaping the data center and HVAC industries in 2026. Key topics include the growing role of high-voltage DC for improved power quality, the rise of liquid cooling, and how air-cooling technologies continue to play a critical part across the data center ecosystem.
Industry discussions also touch on innovation momentum coming out of recent events, shifting demand toward high growth markets, and the increas...
Subzero Engineering is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Dissolvable Air Barrier (DAB) Panels product line from Cambridge R&D, further expanding Subzero’s portfolio of data center containment solutions and reinforcing its commitment to safety, performance, and turnkey system delivery.
DAB Panels are a unique overhead containment solution designed to provide effective airflow separation during normal data center operat...
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Michael Siteman, President of Prodigious Proclivities and a long-time leader and board member within 7x24 Exchange International, about how data center development is being reshaped by AI, power scarcity, network strategy, and community resistance.
Siteman explains how site selection has evolved from a traditional real estate exercise int...
The AI infrastructure boom is rapidly reshaping how the data center industry thinks about power. What was once a relatively straightforward utility procurement exercise is evolving into a complex strategy spanning onsite generation, fuel logistics, financing, and system architecture.
That reality framed a recent special edition of The Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, which recast and updated a pivotal DCF Trends Summit 2025 sessi...
The data center industry is racing into the AI era with bigger campuses, tighter timelines, and unprecedented infrastructure complexity. But in this episode of The Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, 7x24 Exchange International founding member and Mission Critical Global Alliance (MCGA) board member Dennis Cronin argues the industry’s biggest constraint may be the one it talks about least: people.
Cronin’s message is direct: the “ta...
In the latest episode of The DCF Show Podcast, Data Center Frontier founder Rich Miller joins present DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent and Senior Editor David Chernicoff to examine where the data center industry stands as AI infrastructure moves from announcement to execution.
Miller also discusses his new Data Center Richness podcast and Substack project, which explores how data center professionals consume content and learn about...
In this installment of Nomads at the Frontier, Data Center Frontier Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent checks in with Nomad Futurist founders Nabeel Mahmood and Phillip Koblence for on-the-ground reflections from PTC 2026 in Hawaii, and a clear signal that the digital infrastructure market is shifting from hype to delivery.
Mahmood says PTC 2026 reaffirmed the move toward integrated digital infrastructure, with attendance continuing to g...
In the latest episode of the Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Sailesh Krishnamurthy, VP of Engineering for Databases at Google Cloud, about the real challenge facing enterprise AI: connecting powerful models to real-world operational data.
While large language models continue to advance rapidly, many organizations still struggle to combine unstructured data (i.e. documents, images, and log...
The data center industry is changing faster than ever. Artificial intelligence, cloud expansion, and high-density workloads are driving record-breaking energy and cooling demands. But behind every megawatt of compute capacity lies an equally critical resource: water.
As data halls evolve from static infrastructure to dynamic, service-driven ecosystems, cooling has emerged as one of the most powerful levers for efficiency, reliabili...
Applied Digital CEO Wes Cummins joins Data Center Frontier Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent to break down what it takes to build AI data centers that can keep pace with Nvidia-era infrastructure demands and actually deliver on schedule.
Cummins explains Applied Digital’s “maximum flexibility” design philosophy, including higher-voltage delivery, mixed density options, and even more floor space to future-proof facilities as power and co...
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, Matt Vincent is joined by Liam Weld, Head of Data Centers for Meter to discuss why connectivity for data centers is often forgotten about.
AI data centers are no longer just buildings full of racks. They are tightly coupled systems where power, cooling, IT, and operations all depend on each other, and where bad assumptions get expensive fast.
On the latest episode of The Data Center Frontier Show, Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent talks with Sherman Ikemoto of Cadence about what it now takes to design an “AI factory” that actually works.
Ikemoto explains that data center d...
AI is reshaping the data center industry faster than any prior wave of demand. Power needs are rising, communities are paying closer attention, and grid timelines are stretching. On the latest episode of The Data Center Frontier Show, Page Haun of Cologix explains what sustainability really looks like in the AI era, and why it has become a core design requirement, not a side initiative.
Haun describes today’s moment as a “perfect s...
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, talks to Axel Bokiba, General Manager Data Center Cooling for MOOG, about what is takes to deliver liquid cooling reliably at hyperscale.
In this episode of The Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Kevin Ooley, CFO of DataBank, about how the operator is structuring capital to support disciplined growth amid accelerating AI and enterprise demand.
Ooley explains the rationale behind DataBank’s expansion of its development credit facility from $725 million to $1.6 billion, describing it as a strong signal of lender confidence in data c...
DCF Trends Summit 2025 Session Recap
As the data center industry accelerates into an AI-driven expansion cycle, the fundamentals of site selection and investment are being rewritten. In this session from the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2025, Ed Socia of datacenterHawk moderated a discussion with Denitza Arguirova of Provident Data Centers, Karen Petersburg of PowerHouse Data Centers, Brian Winterhalter of DLA Piper, Phill La...
As the data center industry enters the AI era in earnest, incremental upgrades are no longer enough. That was the central message of the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2025 session “AI Is the New Normal: Building the AI Factory for Power, Profit, and Scale,” where operators and infrastructure leaders made the case that AI is no longer a specialty workload; it is redefining the data center itself.
Panelists described the AI fact...
As AI workloads push data center infrastructure in both centralized and distributed directions, the industry is rethinking where compute lives, how data moves, and who controls the networks in between. This episode captures highlights from The Distributed Data Frontier: Edge, Interconnection, and the Future of Digital Infrastructure, a panel discussion from the 2025 Data Center Frontier Trends Summit.
Moderated by Scott Bergs of Da...
In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Uptime Institute research analyst Max Smolaks about the infrastructure forces reshaping AI data centers from power and racks to cooling, economics, and the question of whether the boom is sustainable.
Smolaks unpacks a surprising on-ramp to today’s AI buildout: former cryptocurrency mining operators that “discovered” underutilized pockets...
In this Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2025 session—moderated by Stu Dyer (CBRE) with panelists Aad den Elzen (Solar Turbines/Caterpillar), Creede Williams (Exigent Energy Partners), and Adam Michaelis (PointOne Data Centers)—the conversation centered on a hard truth of the AI buildout: power is now the limiting factor, and the grid isn’t keeping pace.
Dyer framed how quickly the market has escalated, from “big” 48MW campuses a...
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