Within a short time frame, hyperscale data centers have gone from being designed with a typical wholesale data center layout to industrial-level design.

ASHRAE, a global nonprofit membership organization with more than 57,000 members in more than 130 countries worldwide, has been leading the engineering and development of facility standards and guidelines for 120-plus years.

There is a growing move toward more normalized data center equipment and designs, especially among cloud and colocation providers and extending from core to edge.

Old manufacturing facilities bite the dust every year in the U.S. Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have provided opportunities for newer “smart plants” to replace stodgy, old manufacturing systems that aren’t worth rebuilding.

In several of my past columns, I have discussed liquid cooling. It would appear my articles over the past five years have had their effect, since lately it seems like almost everyone is offering some form of liquid cooling system.

Data center operators and facility managers continuously work to ensure temperatures remain consistent without raising energy bills.