Were Data Centers Lindsey Bruner’s Destiny? Our COO Reflects!
As a high schooler, she foresaw the wonders of the World Wide Web. Today, Lindsey Bruner is a data center C-suite executive working to enhance access to connectivity. The year was 1996 and high school yearbook editor-in-chief Lindsey Willison (now Bruner) seemed to have a crystal ball as she excitedly wrote about V.I.T. High School’s […]
10 Insightful Reads from 2024 on Data Centers, AI and the Quest for Sustainability
Welcome to our 2024 sustainability digest, where we’ve compiled 10 good reads exploring the intersection of data centers, surging power demand, and carbon reduction activities. Throughout 2024, a major theme has emerged. Rapid advancements in AI are significantly impacting the need for more data processing power, driving the urgent demand for more efficient and sustainable […]
Data Centers Are Key to Creating a Brighter, More Sustainable Future For All
An often-overlooked truth is that historically most of the compute workloads now placed in large-scale data centers formerly resided in the wrong places. These included the basements or back offices of banks, manufacturing companies, hospitals, retail chains, and various other businesses not designed for computing at all. This resulted in wasted energy and water use, […]
What is True Additionality in the Data Center Industry?
Reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 is one of the world’s most urgent issues. This call to action hasn’t been lost on the data center sector, which recognizes its role as a huge energy consumer (about 2% of the world’s energy usage). As such, hyperscalers — the world’s largest tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and […]
The Key to Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption While Meeting Colossal Power Demands? Masterplanning.
As one of the most power-hungry industries on the planet, the data center sector has a unique challenge and an incredible opportunity to influence future sustainability gains around the globe. Within that industry, hyperscalers — the world’s largest tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — have been aggressively leading the charge toward shrinking […]
CleanArc’s Three Core Tenets: A First Blog
How an Industry Startup is Shaking Up Hyperscale Data Center Development. There’s no better way to start CleanArc’s very first blog than with an overview of how and why we were founded. In a recent JSA TV interview, our Chief Commercial Officer, John Day, outlined our first-of-its-kind approach, which assembles three critical pillars of hyperscale […]