Sustainability

Everyone in this industry has had to become an amateur energy planner. Power is now the first question on every site search, often ahead of land, fiber and zoning. In the last year I've seen campuses planned around gas turbines, on-site substations, battery yards and fuel cells, with small modular reactors on the long-range horizon. Biomass rarely comes up. I think it deserves a seat at the table, and lately I've had a reason to look at it closely. A contact from a previous p

National DICE EAST’s most defining theme was the increased sophistication required across the entire lifecycle of modern data center development - from site selection all the way through operational excellence. As presented in the event’s framing, attendees were urged to rethink delivery not as a sequence of handoffs, but as a highly integrated ecosystem in which early decisions heavily shape final outcomes. The conversation reflected the new reality of AI‑era demand: the ind