DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
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.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 55 - The half-life of nuclear data centers with Chris Lohse, Idaho National Laboratory
Nuclear power may have its detractors, but amid a growing capacity crunch data center operators are becoming increasingly interested in whether atoms can provide the electrons needed to power tomorr…
Episode 54 - Industry-wide sustainability with John Booth, Carbon3IT
Sustainability needs to be applied at all levels of the data center industry, and we are not doing enough, says John Booth of Carbon3IT.
In this episode of Zero Downtime, we sit down with sustainab…
Episode 53 - The UK data center market with Luisa Cardani, TechUK
Bringing the L to FLAP-D, the UK has a prominent data center market. But like all other tier-one markets, London is struggling with space and power capacity. Because of this, the UK's data center ind…
Episode 52 - Why Oxide rebuilt the rack from scratch
Oxide Computer has been rebuilding the rack. In this podcast, CTO Bryan Cantrill tells us why.
The data center industry has been building its own infrastructure for years, with the wrong components.…
Episode 51 - Make way for bigger hard drives with B S Teh, CCO of Seagate
Think hard drives have hit their storage limits, and should be replaced by solid-state units? You could be wrong.
Hard drives have been holding our data for nearly 70 years since IBM created the 350…
Episode 50 - The fundamentals of quantum computing with Yuval Boger, QuEra
In this episode of Zero Downtime, we break down the fundamentals of quantum computing - the different approaches out there, the challenges to bringing it into a widespread commercial reality, and the…
Episode 49 - How CDNs quietly took over the Internet, with Mark de Jong, CDN Alliance
25 years ago, the first content delivery networks (CDNs) emerged, to solve a specific problem - how to make web pages load faster.
More than two decades later, 72 percent of Internet content is del…
Episode 48 - How to face up to regulations, with Venessa Moffat, EkkoSense
Europe has an Energy Efficiency Directive, Germany has an Energy Efficiency Act, and operators there can be fined for inefficiency.
Meanwhile, Amsterdam has declared war on sleeping servers, and set …
Episode 47 - Hydrogen data centers get real, with Yuval Bachar, ECL
At the start of 2023, Yuval Bachar told us about his latest project - to build off-grid, hydrogen-powered data centers. As 2023 came to an end, he was back to tell us he'd done it.
He's got 1MW of c…
Episode 46 - Telecoms in troubling times with Ineke Botter
Ever wonder what it would be like to be a CEO at a telecom company in a country that is at war?
That’s been the reality on a couple of occasions for Ineke Botter, who has headed telecom companies in …
Episode 45 - Construction and resilience amid power instability with Neal Kalita, NTT GDC
The European data center market has a forecasted take-up of 440MW for 2023. But within the context of erratic power availability, moratoriums, and the need to move to renewable energy, the FLAP-D mar…
Episode 44 - Data centers going nuclear, with Tony Grayson, Compass Datacenters
Data centers need to be more sustainable, but finding consistent and powerful energy resources can be a challenge.
Increasingly, we are seeing nuclear entering the conversation, in the form of Small…
Episode 43 - Energy use and AI with Alex de Vries, Digiconomist
Artificial intelligence could grow from almost nothing to using half a percent of the world's electrical power within five years, according to Alex de Vries of Digiconomist.
That's a crazy rate of g…
Episode 42 - The irrepressible Bill Kleyman
We talk to Bill Kleyman, now at machine learning company Neu.ro, about his lengthy data center career. How did he get into the sector, what did he learn at Switch, and how does he balance life and tr…
Episode 41 - Do data centers truly bring economic benefits to their location? With Max Schulze, SDIA
Data centers have outgrown their anonymity. They are large enough consumers of energy and space, that they have to enter the political landscape and justify their existence. But how do we know if a d…
Episode 40 - Plenty of submarine cables in the sea with Elena Badiola, Exa Infrastructure
Ever wondered about the practical challenges of connecting our continents?
In this podcast episode, we talk with Exa Infrastructure's Elena Badiola about the process of getting subsea cables underwa…
Episode 39 - How will we start to use hydrogen? With Mark Monroe
In 2022, Mark Monroe's podcast about hydrogen was one of our most popular podcasts ever.
At Microsoft, Mark had just made a prototype hydrogen fuel cell UPS system that could potentially replace die…
Episode 38 - ICT Environmentalism and the Sustainability Game, with Hunter Vaughan and Nicole Starosielski
If you want to make infrastructure sustainable, you need to be very careful what words you use.
That's what Hunter Vaughan and Nicole Starosielski found, through their involvement in a project to ma…
Episode 37 - Actions speak louder than code with Anne Currie, Green Software Foundation
If you think transitioning the tech sector to net zero is all about renewable energy and heat reuse, think again. Small changes in software could make entire data centers redundant - for a much bigge…
Episode 36 - Developing Internet protocols with Mirjam Kuhe, RIPE
How does the Internet keep running? A close-knit community of engineers has been developing and supporting the protocols that support it for more than forty years.
During that time, new Internet ser…