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DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

DatacenterDynamics

DCD Zero Downtime is DCD"s editorially-led podcast. In each episode, our editorial team will be talking with leading members of the data center and digital infrastructure community, delving deeper into the future of the industry and its major challenges.

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00:27:13

Episode 94 - Your next job could be in critical...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2026/01/08

While critical infrastructure has always been the backbone of the digital landscape, the recent data center boom has caused more people than ever before to become aware of the industry and consider the career opportunities it might have to offer.However, like the tech industry writ large, there’s a perception amongst some outside of the critical infrastructure sector that its workforce lacks diversity and therefore isn't an industry in which they could excel professionally.In this episode, Lizzy

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00:47:18

Bonus episode - Going Nuclear - Can nuclear power the...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/12/29

DCD speaks to Dr. Tim Gregory, nuclear scientist at Sellafield, the UK's national nuclear laboratory, and author of the best-selling book Going Nuclear, about the history of nuclear power, how it actually works, and whether it can play a key role in powering the growth of AI both in the UK and further afield.

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00:40:11

Bonus festive episode - 2025 in review with the DCD...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/12/25

This episode is a bit different. With the festive period officially peaking, DCD decided to change tack and instead give you a "year in review," where we talk about our favorite stories from 2025. Join Charlotte Trueman, Zachary Skidmore, Georgia Butler, and Paul Lipscombe as they cover their respective beats. We hope you enjoy it - and happy holidays!

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00:38:51

Bonus episode - The pathway to compute in space with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/12/18

With data centers in space all the rage, we chat with Sophia Space's Cyrill Glockner about the company's step-by-step approach to putting compute in orbit.

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00:29:33

Episode 93 - Assessing the UK’s fiber landscape with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/12/11

The UK wants more data centers. The government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, announced in January, is driving operators to look outside of Greater London. We talk to Lee Myall, CEO of Neos Networks – a B2B fiber provider in the UK – about the state of the UK’s connectivity infrastructure, what kind of delays are faced by data center operators in the country, and the impact of AI workloads on fiber buildouts.

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00:38:08

Bonus episode - The world of data center funding with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/12/04

At DCD, we frequently cover stories about data centers getting funding, mergers and acquisitions, and investment in general. But we rarely get to talk to the investment bankers about it. In this episode, we discuss the current financial market in the data center industry - the trends Pryor is seeing, and the inevitability of the AI bubble. Tune it to hear what an investment banker focused on the technology sector thinks of the current climate.

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00:26:15

Episode 92 - Decarbonizing district heating through...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/11/27

DCD speaks to Drew Turner, director of global decarbonization solutions at Danfoss, about how data center waste heat can be best utilized across district heating systems in Europe and further afield.

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00:36:06

Bonus Episode - How AI changed the regional Edge game...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/11/20

AtlasEdge emerged in 2021 after Liberty Global and Digital Bridge combined their European assets to make an “Edge” data center player on the continent. Initially, the company targeted smaller data centers - previously positing 4-6MW as the largest it would deploy when talking to DCD, but things have changed. The world has changed. Durvasula was hired in May 2024 and has since been leading the company through the new era, one where it's embracing larger facilities that before, and that’s for one

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00:37:13

Episode 91 - A fast lane for data center grid...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/11/13

GridCARE is utilizing AI to identify hidden capacity on the grid, enabling significantly faster connection times for data centers. We speak to its CEO - Amit Narayan - to find out how.

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00:30:40

Episode 90 - The financial side of data centers, with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/10/30

There is plenty of talk about power and land availability, but another hurdle to data center growth and development is capital. In this episode, we talk to Julie Brewer, EdgeCore’s EVP of finance, about the different ways data center developers and operators can secure funding - be it through equity or debt. In addition, we discuss how Brewer’s experience of secure funding has varied between her roles, from the retail colocation space, to hyperscaler properties.

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00:43:33

Bonus episode - Forming a cryptomining venture with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/10/23

The price of Bitcoin might be higher than ever, but that isn’t stopping companies from pivoting to hosting AI and HPC infrastructure as well as cryptomining rigs.In this episode of DCD>Zero Downtime, Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot talks about the company’s pivot away from mining cryptocurrencies to become a data center provider for both the crypto and AI sectors, and how to create a base facility design that can tailor to both worlds.He also talks about the American Bitcoin venture the company has formed

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00:33:51

Episode 89 - Can we power data centers behind the...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/10/15

DCD sits down with Alex Goodall, CEO of Xela Energy, to discuss the company’s rebrand from Clean Energy Capital, and how it aims to deliver behind-the-meter renewable power to the UK’s data center market.

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00:32:11

Episode 88 - Building a fiber network for AI with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/10/02

In this episode, DCD catches up with Bill Long, CPO at Zayo Group, to discuss the company’s long-haul fiber build across the US to support the growing demands of AI workloads. Long also discusses Zayo’s acquisition of Crown Castle’s fiber assets and why the Macro Edge provides a worthwhile opportunity.

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00:29:25

Bonus episode - An energy OS for data centers with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/09/29

Earlier this year, Zendo Energy emerged from stealth and launched an "Energy OS" to enhance energy procurement for the data center industry.DCD speaks to Drew Barrett, COO at Zendo, about the launch and the broader energy market.

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00:41:32

Episode 87 - The rise of hollow core fiber with Jason...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/09/18

In this episode, DCD chats with Jason Eichenholz, CEO of Relativity Networks, about hollow core fiber (HCF). Eichenholz details the latest developments of the technology, plus its potential to support the AI data center boom, and whether HCF can have an impact on the telecoms sector.

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00:41:30

Episode 86 - Power from below (geothermal energy)...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/09/04

In this episode, we chat to Ben King, associate director with Rhodium Group's Energy & Climate practice, who provides an in-depth look into the US geothermal sector. We explore the exciting world of enhanced geothermal power and how, if scaled, it could provide enough energy to meet skyrocketing data center demand across the US.

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00:35:47

Episode 85 - Making critical infrastructure think...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/08/21

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.

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00:53:03

Bonus episode - Clouds and AI inference, with...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/08/15

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.

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00:44:23

Episode 84 - Small modular solutions to big power...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/08/07

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.

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00:36:31

Episode 83 - Data sovereignty and cloud competition...

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show ·

2025/07/24

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

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