DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

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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.

  1. 15 HR AGO

    Episode 87 - The rise of hollow core fiber with Jason Eichenholz, Relativity Networks

    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.

    42 min

  2. 4 SEPT

    Episode 86 - Power from below (geothermal energy) with Ben King, Rhodium Group

    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.

    42 min

  3. 21 AUG

    Episode 85 - Making critical infrastructure think with Jad Jebara, Hyperview

    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.

    36 min

  4. 15 AUG

    Bonus episode - Clouds and AI inference, with Cirrascale's CEO David Driggers

    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.

    53 min

  5. 7 AUG

    Episode 84 - Small modular solutions to big power problems with Harry Keeling, Rolls Royce SMR

    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.

    44 min

  6. 24 JUL

    Episode 83 - Data sovereignty and cloud competition in the UK, with Mark Boost, Civo

    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 enough.

    37 min

  7. 10 JUL

    Episode 82 – Pivoting from crypto to AI colocation with Core Scientific's Matt Brown

    In this episode, we talk to Core Scientific COO Matt Brown about the company’s pivot away from housing cryptomining rigs to hosting GPUs for the likes of AI cloud firm CoreWeave. We talk about the wider crypto market and why the move to AI hosting is becoming so common, the rise of the neoclouds and why they’re willing to work with companies that might not be used to working to Tier III-quality uptime requirements, and Matt’s own experience coming to the crypto space from world of traditional colo.

    46 min

  8. 12 JUN

    Episode 81 - Telecom tower opportunities in Africa and the Middle East with Sainesh Vallabh, Helios Towers

    In this episode, we talk to Sainesh Vallabh, group chief commercial officer, Helios Towers, about the company’s strategic focus to drive tenants to its mobile tower infrastructure. Sainesh explains the company’s plans for the year, opportunities to look at new markets, and the challenges that Africa and the Middle East present for Helios.

    24 min
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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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