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What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented

Few places on Earth are as quietly vital as a data center. From the outside, most look like simple warehouses: broad, windowless, and often isolated. However, data centers house some of the most complex environments ever engineered over centuries. Vast rooms filled with servers hum continuousl...

December 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

The Role of Data Centers in National Security Infrastructure

Introduction: The New Foundations of Power About a century ago, national strength was measured by oil fields, steel production, and military strength. Times have changed, and so have the people and the metrics for national strength. Being in the computer age, national strength is measured in d...

October 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Beyond the Machines: Roles, Risks, and Realities in Data Centers

Data centers are self-run facilities, fully powered by automation. This is necessary to ensure that uptime numbers are accurate at all times. A crucial part of the data center infrastructure has also been designed to operate quietly in the background, leaving the core of these facilities,t and...

September 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tri...

August 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Building a Data Center from Scratch: The Anatomy of a $500 Million Project

Every photo you upload, every email you send, every movie you stream, and every app you open on your phone often rely on a physical place most people never see or think about, which is the data center. These are massive buildings filled with rows of humming servers that work around the clock t...

July 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

From Silicon Valley to Shanghai: The Top Colocation Providers Globally

In today’s digital era, where data has become as valuable as gold and as elusive as a shadow, it has become paramount for businesses worldwide, regardless of size or strength, to safeguard and properly manage all digital assets. Colocation providers play a crucial role in the tech industry by ...

May 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Will 2025 be the Year of the Data Center? Here are Three Promising Facts from the Virginia Market

Last summer, Sequoia partner David Cahn declared that 2025 would be the “Year of the Data Center,” as project developers and investors lined up to expand data center capacity in support of the AI industry’s massive build-out. To validate this thesis, we looked at Baxtel’s proprietary data in o...

December 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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