Episodes

  • Green Data Center Podcast 2026-03
    Mar 21 2026

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    Data center growth is facing widespread local and international backlash due to concerns about energy use, water consumption, noise, and land impacts, leading to moratoriums, tighter regulations, and zoning restrictions.

    Faster delivery methods - preplanning and delivering shells helps even as designs and use details emerge later.

    Have a happy & healthy International Data Center Day (March 26)!

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    30 mins
  • 2025-12: Awards 2025; AI growth despite hurdles
    Dec 26 2025

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    Awards season 2025

    AI progress and hurdles

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    40 mins
  • 2025-08: Mythbusting, digital twins, $B+ announcements
    Aug 27 2025

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    Data Center announcements - newly operational & new $B+ campuses

    Digital Twins with AI developing quickly

    BlackRock carbon capture to take aim at CO2 industrial emissions

    Data center Mythbusting: 24/7 generators; elec grid vampires; no jobs

    Golf steals more water than data centers (about 44 times more) in the U.S.

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    31 mins
  • 2025-05: Sustainability, Developments, & Tech
    May 31 2025

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    Sustainability: Water, Energy, & AI gold rush; cyclical economy & recycling

    DC Developments: Expansion everywhere - powered land becomes a project; NIMBY & regulatory push-back

    Technology Impacts: AI for AI, diverse IT hardware, and prepping for what is next with flexibility

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    40 mins
  • 2025-02: Meta AI Data Center; AI test and energy use; NoVA power increase
    Feb 22 2025

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    Meta DC in northeast LA: 4M sqft, infrastructure and build increases in a rural area

    AI testing of scripts for fun: good, better, best from the major brands

    Northern VA power demand up from 21GW to 40GW since July 2024

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    35 mins
  • 2024-12: Awards 2024; Newest AI data centers
    Dec 17 2024

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    Awards season 2024: iMasons & DCD sustainability and environmental impact
    New AI data center design by AWS & new Meta AI data center in Louisiana

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    31 mins
  • 2024-10: Nuclear options; IUE; $B M&A to continue?
    Oct 31 2024

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    Nuclear options to satiate power demand?
    Infrastructure Usage Effectiveness
    The billion+ $$$ mergers and acquisitions continue

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    31 mins
  • 2024-09: AI power; Geothermal Energy; Tract & big development sites; AirTrunk sale
    Sep 28 2024

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    AI power use comparisons
    Sage Geosystems & Meta make a deal for 150MW of geothermal energy
    Tract acquires 2k+ acres, 1.8GW near Phoenix, AZ
    AirTruck bidding at $13.5B (USD)

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    39 mins