Renewable energy deployments across the UK are expanding significantly.

In this episode, DCD speaks to Tim Foster, director of energy for business at Conrad Energy, about the potential of renewables in powering the data center market.

DCD speaks to Pado AI about how it uses AI and machine learning to help data centers orchestrate compute workloads and manage power usage more efficiently.

As data centers continue to spring up across the US, opposition to them has grown in intensity and breadth. We talk to Amanda Garcia, an attorney who leads the Southern Environmental Law Center's data center advocacy, about why local communities are pushing back against data centers, the SELC's role, and what the future of data center regulation looks like.

DCD speaks with David Rothenstein, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Ciena, about how the company plans to support the demands for AI infrastructure. Rothenstein talks about connectivity up, out, and across data centers, hollow-core fiber, AI, coherent optics, and more in this episode. 

In this episode, DCD sits down with Mark Pestridge and Paul Lewis to talk about Telehouse's EMEA strategy following the company's senior leadership reshuffle.

We discuss expansion plans, the company's relationship with the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, and how customer demands are changing.

DCD speaks to Marissa Hummon, CTO of Utilidata, about the company's Karman platform and its potential implications for the data center market.

With today's announcement that he is resigning, we look at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's data center legacy.

Talking to Kao Data CEO Spencer Lamb, we look at the impact (or lack of) AI Growth Zones, why UK energy prices are so high, if copyright is a challenge, and more. Plus, we learn about prospective national leader Andy Burnham's data center visits, and what the data center industry should look for in a new PM.

Data center site selection is a crucial step in the construction process, and picking the right piece of land can be the difference between a project succeeding and failing.

For AI data center developers with money burning a hole in their corporate back pockets, separating the promising propositions from duds is a time-consuming business.

Build thinks it can help with an AI-powered system that it says can help sift through potential sites to identify the best parcels of land.

In this podcast, CEO James Stirrat-Ellis explains how his company's system combines artificial and human intelligence to speed up projects, and how it has worked with the UK government on its much-vaunted AI Growth Zones.

Did you know that DCD has a sister publication?

In April 2025, DCD acquired networking publication SDx, and with it now having been part of the InfraX family for a year, we thought it was about time we sat down with senior editor Ben Wodecki to give the publication a proper introduction.

Tune into the episode to meet Ben and hear about what SDx covers, as well as a bit of a discussion on the key upcoming topics you can expect to see on the website.

It can seem like GPUs get all the headlines when it comes to AI workloads, but there are a lot more challenges when it comes to handling massive training jobs. 

We talk to Pradeep Vincent, Oracle’s Executive Vice President & Chief Technical Architect of OCI, about the importance of power and the oft-overlooked networking in large-scale AI clusters, particularly as we approach multibuilding scale, and potentially multi-campus.