Data center development now requires addressing grid costs, water use, and community benefits. Securing power alone is no longer enough for approval.

A proposed 20-story Kansas City data center trades suburban sprawl for urban density, offering proximity and network diversity – but at higher construction costs that only specific workloads may justify.

AI success hinges on infrastructure. Use this five-part framework to evaluate power, cooling, security, cost strategy, and scalability.

Data center developers are responding to growing community opposition by embracing transparency, funding power infrastructure, and prioritizing locations with supportive residents.

N+1 capacity can hide shared-control dependencies, turning many units into a single failure domain. Learn how to design for degraded operation and commission real resilience.

As AI density and airflow rise, legacy raised-floor and zinc-plated components can shed conductive whiskers that jeopardize equipment reliability.

Operators use biomimicry, community co-design, and brownfield redevelopment to reduce the visual impact of data centers and improve local acceptance.

The data center industry’s shift to on-site power generation to overcome grid constraints is creating new environmental compliance challenges.

CoreWeave is evolving from a specialized GPU infrastructure provider into a full-stack AI cloud platform to compete with hyperscalers and attract enterprise customers.

Digital Realty's first turnkey cable landing station is designed to bring subsea capacity directly into an established data center and interconnection environment.