Gigawatts and Guilt: 5 Crucial Data Center Trends Redefining the AI Boom
"As Anthropic pledges to subsidize the grid and DeepSeek rewrites efficiency rules, new data center trends emerge from the chaos."
Data Centers
Reference guides on the buildings that run AI and the internet: power and grid, cooling, siting, regulation and heat reuse. Each one shows its sources and its arithmetic, so engineers and energy managers can check the numbers and use them.
37 articlesUpdated 12 Oct 2026Free tools
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Cold Aisle vs Hot Aisle Containment: Which Is Better for Data Center Cooling?
Cold vs hot aisle containment compared on savings, retrofit and fire safety, with a worked case against Germany's EnEfG PUE limits.
Lithium-Ion vs. Lead-Acid Batteries: The Right Choice for Data Center
VRLA or lithium batteries for a data centre UPS? Fire risk, floor space, battery life and adoption compared using vendor, Eurobat and Uptime data.
Fibre Optic Infrastructure for Data Centres: Optics, Cabling and Testing
Compare four 400G optics, work through a 120 m fibre channel, and specify connectors, routes and acceptance tests.
Meet-Me Room (MMR) in a Data Center: How It Works
What a meet-me room does, what the standards say, and a worked loss budget showing when a cross-connect path through it stops working.
How Data Centers Actually Control Humidity (And Why It Matters)
Learn how relative humidity impacts data centers, and discover actionable solutions to optimize RH levels and protect critical infrastructure. Read more now!
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