Data Center Richness
Data Center Richness
Podcast Description
Data Center Richness brings you expert insights on the world of data centers, cloud computing and AI infrastructure. Join respected industry expert Rich Miller for conversations that will help you understand the fast-moving world of digital infrastructure, and what it means to you.
Rich Miller is a journalist and analyst who has been tracking the data center industry for more than 25 years, explaining how data centers are central to the Internet, the AI revolution, and the energy transition. Rich founded and led two of the sector's leading publications (Data Center Frontier and Data Center Knowledge), and his insights have been featured in major media including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The New York Times.
We bring you interviews with the top thought leaders and innovators building the digital economy. These conversations are particularly relevant for data center professionals and those in the energy industry, exploring the road ahead for AI infrastructure.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of topics including AI infrastructure, cloud computing, and energy solutions specifically focusing on the role of data centers in these areas. Episodes often explore themes such as the potential for nuclear-powered data centers, the challenges of clean energy integration, and workforce development in the data center sector, exemplified by discussions with industry leaders like Bill Kleyman.
Data Center Richness brings you expert insights on the world of data centers, cloud computing and AI infrastructure. Join respected industry expert Rich Miller for conversations that will help you understand the fast-moving world of digital infrastructure, and what it means to you.
Rich Miller is a journalist and analyst who has been tracking the data center industry for more than 25 years, explaining how data centers are central to the Internet, the AI revolution, and the energy transition. Rich founded and led two of the sector’s leading publications (Data Center Frontier and Data Center Knowledge), and his insights have been featured in major media including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The New York Times.
We bring you interviews with the top thought leaders and innovators building the digital economy. These conversations are particularly relevant for data center professionals and those in the energy industry, exploring the road ahead for AI infrastructure.
Chris Crosby has deep insights on essential the role of data centers in an AI-powered future. Crosby is the CEO of Compass Datacenters, which builds some of the world’s largest data center campuses.
In this week’s Data Center Richness episode, host Rich Miller talks with Crosby about how Compass has embraced new approaches to power and the supply chain, as well as sustainable construction and backup power. Crosby also shares about Compass’ adoption of HVO (hydrogenated vegetable oil), a lower-emissions diesel fuel, and the company’s current project to convert the former Sears Headquarters near Chicago into a massive data center campus.
But for Crosby, the success at Compass all comes down to company culture and building great teams.
Highlights:
00:00 – Overview from host Rich Miller
02:00 – The role of digital infrastructure in an AI-powered world
03:30 – Solving power constraints impacting AI growth
07:45 – Load flexibility as a Pathway to Power
11:15 – The role of capital in fixing the grid
15:00 – How to address utility power queues
17:45 – How do data centers make flexibility work?
20:25 – Rethinking the data center supply chain
23:15 – The power of company culture in building great teams
27:45 – Bringing new talent into the data center industry
30:05 – How Compass thinks about sustainability
32:15 – Leading the way on adoption of HVO (low-emission generator fuel)
34:30 – Converting the Sears HQ campus into a huge data center
37:00 – The role of data center retrofits and adaptive reuse
38:25 – Data centers and community relations
41:00 – Data centers and the opportunity ahead
At Data Center Richness we demystify technology and explain why data centers matter, and what comes next for the Internet, cloud computing and AI. Host Rich Miller is a journalist and analyst who has been covering the data center sector for 25 years.
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On the Web: Data Center Richness https://datacenterpodcast.com/
LINKS FROM THIS SHOW:
Compass Datacenters https://www.compassdatacenters.com/
Compass Culture: Core Convictions https://www.compassdatacenters.com/about/
Sears HQ to Become a Data Center https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/hyperscale/article/55089460/suburban-chicago-welcomes-compass-datacenters-major-hyperscale-development-on-legacy-sears-hq-site
Chris Crosby on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-crosby-3542b71/
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