In this episode of The Thought Cloud podcast, Jackson Metcalf, critical facilities leader for Gensler, discusses the critical facilities section of the report and how design can innovate these spaces. He also shares his insights on some of the latest data center design trends to look for.

Melissa Reali-Elliott interviewed Nabeel Mahmood, co-founder and CEO of Nomad Futurist and managing director of the Nomad Futurist Foundation. In this video Q&A, Mahmood shares his insightful futurist perspective on the shifting patterns in how we learn and the new path to education we need to adopt to meet the challenge of training the next generation.

In this episode of The Thought Cloud, Jeremy Kubica discusses his latest book, "Data Structures the Fun Way."

Hear what Zachary Smith, head of edge infrastructure at Equinix and president of the board of directors at Open19 Foundation, thinks about data center sustainability. 

In the People Behind the Profession series, Mission Critical aims to showcase the industry professionals that inform, advise and write hard-hitting industry features. Allison Boen has written An Immersion Cooling Epiphany, and has twice been selected for our Top 25 Women In Technology contest.

Keith Krach — who has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his work defending against Chinese "techno-authoritarianism" and leveraging the technological advantages of the U.S. to work toward a new form of diplomacy — tells quite a story in this episode of The Thought Cloud.

Steve Baret, head of strategy and partnerships at Eyrus, discusses key aspects of managing a diverse data center workforce.