DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

AI is changing how data centers operate, and particularly in the case of retrofit facilities, it is more important than ever that operators have all the data they need to ensure uptime. 

We talk to Jad Jebara, CEO and president of Hyperview - an AI-powered DCIM provider - about some of the pitfalls data center operators are falling into as they handle more demanding workloads, and how a surprising number of operators are still actually using Excel for capacity planning.

What does it take to run a cloud provider in 2025?

We chat to David Driggers about Cirrascale, a company older than the neoclouds, but without the deep pockets of the hyperscalers, about how the company is carving its own path in an increasingly crowded market.

Plus, we hear about the current AI inference market, and where growth opportunities lie.

In this podcast episode, we speak to Harry Keeling, head of business development - new markets at Rolls Royce.

Listen in to hear more about the rise of small modular reactors, Rolls Royce SMR’s business model, and the potential of SMRs in powering the data center sector.

With global political uncertainty, data sovereignty has become a key conversation for governments, enterprises, and cloud providers alike. 

In this episode, we talk to Civo’s Mark Boost about the importance of data sovereignty - as well as establishing a definition - and how this links to the ongoing issue of increasing competition in the cloud market beyond the US hyperscalers. 

We also touch on how the UK’s CMA investigation, and whether such anticompetitive investigations really go far enough.  

In this episode, we talk to Core Scientific COO Matt Brown about the company’s pivot away from housing cryptomining rigs to hosting GPUs for the likes of AI cloud firm CoreWeave.

We talk about the wider crypto market and why the move to AI hosting is becoming so common, the rise of the neoclouds and why they’re willing to work with companies that might not be used to working to Tier III-quality uptime requirements, and Matt’s own experience coming to the crypto space from world of traditional colo.

In this episode, we talk to Sainesh Vallabh, group chief commercial officer, Helios Towers, about the company’s strategic focus to drive tenants to its mobile tower infrastructure.

Sainesh explains the company’s plans for the year, opportunities to look at new markets, and the challenges that Africa and the Middle East present for Helios. 

In this episode, we are staying in the editorial team’s home county - the UK. Pulsant is a regional Edge provider focusing on the UK market, and has recently launched a new Sovereign Cloud offering. 

We talk with Pulsant’s CTO Mike Hoy about the data center industry in the UK in the context of the Labour government, how enterprise strategies are changing in relation to cloud deployments, and discuss the ongoing CMA investigation into the cloud services market. 

DCD's EiC Sebastian Moss talks to SDxCentral executive editor Dan Meyer about what it means for the two publications to work together, and what we can learn about the current tech cycle from previous booms and busts.

With the cloud market in a constant war for market share, alternative providers to the “big three” have emerged. 

With 32 regions globally, Vultr has a huge worldwide reach, and claims to be able to offer core cloud services (and GPUs) at a significantly lower cost than the hyperscalers. 

In this episode, Kevin Cochrane joins us to discuss the cloud computing market, how Vultr is able to offer its services for less, and the company's push into AI. 

Could changing just 30 lines of code in Linux help cut data center energy use?

In this episode, we speak to Professor Martin Karsten, professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and Joe Domato, distinguished engineer at Fastly, about their work optimizing the Linux kernel, which could have big implications if applied by digital infrastructure operators