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 15 - Tracking data center power use with LBNL's Dr. Arman Shehabi
As grids around the world struggle to meet demand amid heatwaves and wars, data center power and water usage is increasingly coming under scrutiny. We talk to the researcher who has spent years tryin…
Episode 14 - Building facilities for Google with Sarah Godbehere
What's it like building facilities for Google, in the epicenter of data center construction - Northern Virginia? Sarah Godbehere has spent the last three years managing construction on a Google camp…
Episode 13 - Carbon accounting and 24x7 green energy with Simone Accornero, FlexiDAO
When a data center firm claims to be 100 percent carbon neutral, can we believe them? Does every electron used in that data come from a solar panel or a wind farm? Until we have reliable carbon ac…
Episode 12 - Sustainability-linked financing and data centers, with Aligned’s Matthew Chambliss
As sustainability continues to become an increasingly important issue for data center owners and operators, many are tying their financing into ESG-related goals. The likes of Green Bonds see proceed…
Episode 11 - Understanding Bitcoin power use after the crypto crash, with Alex de Vries
Cryptocurrency valuations are in freefall, causing mining to halve. But Bitcoin still consumes as much power as entire nations, amid a climate emergency. We talk to Digiconomist's Alex de Vries about…
Episode 10 - Alex Cruz Farmer on the experience of working during lockdown
Working from home expanded massively during the pandemic - but were we ready for such a massive change? The proportion of remote workers grew from 17% of all employees worldwide in 2019 to 32% but th…
Episode 9 - Hydrogen with Mark Monroe, Microsoft
The world needs hydrogen as part of the replacement for fossil fuels - and data centers could be the catalyst for that.
Mark Monroe, Principal Engineer at Microsoft, explains how the hydrogen econo…
Episode 8 - The data center gender gap with Jacqueline van de Werken, Leaseweb
In this episode of the Zero Downtime podcast, we speak to Leaseweb general counsel Jacqueline van de Werken about how to encourage more women in the data center and cloud industry, and how to retain …
Episode 7 - Biodiversity & bees with Michelle Wallace, Host in Ireland
It's easy to think that sustainable data centers are all about reducing carbon. In fact the earth faces a biodiversity crisis as big as the climate crisis. Data centers can have a role in fighting to…
Episode 6 - Astrid Wynne Rogers, TechBuyer
Data center operators who want to be sustainable tend to focus in on carbon - but there are a lot more elements in the Periodic Table, And as we progress towards sustainability, we are going to have …
Episode 5 - Holland Barry, Cyxtera
CTOs have traditionally been key positions for research-driven software and technology companies. As colocation companies increasingly move beyond merely serving space and power, the role of the CTO …
Bonus Episode: Understanding Internet Connectivity in Ukraine & Russia, with Kentik's Doug Madory
DCD's Sebastian Moss talks to Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Kentik, about the developing situation in Ukraine and Russia. We discuss telco disruptions, misinformation, false BGP h…
Episode 4 - Wes Swenson, Novva Data Centers
Data center automation is one thing, but what about automatons walking in the data halls? Robots in the data center are often discussed but rarely make it beyond the pilot project stage. Those that a…
Episode 3 - Anders Andrae, Huawei Technologies
Figures quoted in 2021 suggested that data centers and communications technology could use eight percent or even 20 percent of the world's electricity by 2030. That seemed too high to us, so we track…
Episode 2 - Max Schulze, the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance
Data centers are about as efficient as they ever can be, in terms of delivering power to servers and keeping them cool, so what's the next step to sustainable digital infrastructure? There is a lot …
Episode 1 - Lex Coors, Interxion
In the first episode of the Zero Downtime podcast, we sit down with Lex Coors, winner of DCD's 2021 Outstanding Contribution to the Industry award and Chief Data Center Technology & Engineering Offic…