Cloud, Colo & Data Center Pro
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When You Run a Business on the Bank Balance
Read the analysis →: When You Run a Business on the Bank BalanceThe pattern I see in due diligence rooms: small companies run on the bank balance, not on visibility. Skipping BI and a CFO feels like saving money – until it costs everything.
Research library
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When N+1 Isn’t Enough: Evidence From 184 Documented Data Center Outages
Redundancy failed in 99 of 184 documented data center outages. The #1 cause isn’t what you’d guess: transfer switches that never transferred.…
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Who Keeps Europe’s Data Centers On? UPS Evidence From 36 Documented European Deployments
Instead of vendor opinions – evidence: 36 documented European UPS deployments across 12 countries. Vertiv and Riello lead 1–2 MW, modular is…
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Inside the Global Data Cloud: What Our Data Centers Really Store
What actually fills the world’s data centers? Video 30–45%, backups 20–25%, AI the fastest-growing slice – a best-evidence breakdown from 425 research…
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Liquid Cooling vs Air Cooling in Data Centers: The Real Economics
Why liquid cooling wins the economics at scale: the chiller tax, the 15–20% structural air floor, two thermodynamic worlds, and how 60–70°C…
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EU Data Centre Regulation Tracker: Energy, Heat Reuse and PUE Rules by Country
Which EU data centre energy rules apply where: EED thresholds, Germany’s EnEfG quotas, France, Austria, the Nordics, moratoriums in NL and Ireland,…
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The Only Constant in a Modern Data Center Is Power
Air cooling never reaches zero, liquid keeps growing, and the only permanent thing in the building is power. Lessons from planning our…
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Data Centre Waste Heat Reuse Regulation in the EU
Heat reuse from data centres is no longer voluntary in Europe. How the EED, REDIII, Germany’s EnEfG and the coming EU Data…
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Europe Is Investing Heavily in AI Infrastructure – But There’s an Uncomfortable Gap We Don’t Talk About Enough
EU funding is building GPU clusters, supercomputers and data centers – but it covers CAPEX, not the electricity, cooling, engineers and upgrades…
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I Ran the Numbers: If You Filled a 1MW Data Center With iPhones – Here’s the Theoretical Compute Power You’d Get
A thought experiment: 250,000 iPhone 16 Pro Max units in a 1MW data center would deliver ~1 ExaFLOP on paper – rivaling…
Reference guides
EU Data Centre Regulation Tracker
Energy, heat reuse and PUE rules by country. Continuously updated.
Liquid Cooling vs Air Cooling: The Real Economics
Capex, opex and the crossover point – with numbers, not marketing.