After a four-or five-year hiatus, I returned to the AHR Expo—the HVACR industry’s most popular event. Per usual, the aisles of the show floor were filled with buzzwords, and among those that topped the list was “uptime.”
The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center is at the center of an emerging data center cluster where wholesale data center operators and self-build hyperscale cloud providers like Microsoft have recently joined the Reno ecosystem.
While timing performance, such as stability, drift, aging, and Allan deviation, are well understood, their performance is rarely employed to demonstrate the cost savings that can be achieved.
The need to adapt and evolve contractual frameworks to account for emerging technologies, shifting data privacy regulations, and the nuanced interplay between human-generated and AI-assisted content has become increasingly pronounced.
Each fire protection solution has its own advantages and drawbacks. And even though a fire suppression system may save a data center from fire, it could still pose a risk to the data being stored.