DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

Episode 110 - Orchestrating AI with Wannie Park, Pado AI

DCD speaks to Pado AI about how it uses AI and machine learning to help data centers orchestrate compute workloads and manage power usage more efficiently.

Episode 109 - Organizing opposition to data centers in the US with Amanda Gardcia, Southern Environmental Law Center

As data centers continue to spring up across the US, opposition to them has grown in intensity and breadth. We talk to Amanda Garcia, an attorney who leads the Southern E

Episode 108 - Networks of the future with David Rothenstein, Ciena

DCD speaks with David Rothenstein, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Ciena, about how the company plans to support the demands for AI infrastructure. Ro

Episode 107 - Telehouse talks EMEA with Paul Lewis and Mark Pestridge

In this episode, DCD sits down with Mark Pestridge and Paul Lewis to talk about Telehouse's EMEA strategy following the company's senior leadership reshuffle. We discus

Episode 106 - Rewiring the grid with Marissa Hummon, Utilidata

DCD speaks to Marissa Hummon, CTO of Utilidata, about the company's Karman platform and its potential implications for the data center market.

Bonus episode - What should the data center industry expect from the next UK Prime Minister? With Kao Data CEO Spencer Lamb

With today's announcement that he is resigning, we look at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's data center legacy. Talking to Kao Data CEO Spencer Lamb, we look at the imp

Episode 105 - Using AI to build AI, with James Stirrat-Ellis of Build

Data center site selection is a crucial step in the construction process, and picking the right piece of land can be the difference between a project succeeding and faili

Episode 104 - Re-introducing SDx, with senior editor Ben Wodecki

Did you know that DCD has a sister publication? In April 2025, DCD acquired networking publication SDx, and with it now having been part of the InfraX family for a year

Episode 103 - Networking at hyperscale with Pradeep Vincent, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

It can seem like GPUs get all the headlines when it comes to AI workloads, but there are a lot more challenges when it comes to handling massive training jobs.  We talk

Bonus episode - The telco build out with Patrick Halley, Wireless Infrastructure Association

DCD catches up with Patrick Halley, president and CEO, Wireless Infrastructure Association, to discuss the requirements of the telecommunications industry’s infrastructur

Episode 102 - The training to inference passageway with Sumti Jairath, SambaNova

With the AI industry fueling a shift away from training and towards inference, and claiming agentic AI as its next frontier, the need for hardware to support workloads th

Episode 101 - Unpacking clean energy procurement with Nayel Brihi, BloombergNEF

DCD speaks to Nayel Brihi, corporate energy analyst at BloombergNEF, about the state of energy procurement over the past year.

Episode 100 - It's good being Mr Wonderful, with Kevin O'Leary

It is the 100th episode of Zero Downtime! Before we get into the episode, a huge thank you to all of our listeners - new and those who have been with us since the beginni

Episode 99 - A hyperscale competition with Damien Lucas, Scaleway

In this episode of Zero Downtime, we talk with Damien Lucas, CEO of Scaleway, about the European cloud computing market and whether it is possible to compete with the US

Bonus episode - Can enhanced geothermal power the AI boom? With Cindy Taff, Sage Geosystems

DCD sits down with the CEO of Sage Geosystems, Cindy Taff, to talk all things enhanced geothermal, and how the technology could power the data centers of tomorrow.

Episode 98 - Insuring uptime with Jonathon Hatzor, Parametrix

That data centers need insurance goes without saying. Any commercial building will typically be insured against standard damages and risks, but data centers are far more

Bonus episode - Dangerous liaisons with Tommy Schuch, Climber Protection Group

Mobile devices require networks to make them function, and these networks are often deployed in places most people wouldn’t dare to visit, such as telecom towers. Some c

Episode 97 with David Bacino, Symphony Towers Infrastructure

With the deployment of 4G and 5G services still an important focus for US carriers, the need for telecoms infrastructure to house this equipment couldn’t be greater, whic

Episode 96 - Reinventing the rack, with Iggy Kogan of Air2O

Anyone who has entered a data center will be familiar with the upright rack design that has become standard in data halls around the world. But while piling up the “pizz

Episode 95 - The copper collapse and telephone exchanges with Lisa Kinch, Historic England

The UK is calling time on its copper networks, and thousands of telephone exchanges across the UK are set to be closed in the coming years. The end of an era, some of th