Milldam’s president, Adam Waitkunas, recently spoke to Bisnow’s Dan Rabb about the data center industry’s continued challenges with community relations. He also discussed Milldam’s new Data Center Community Relations Service, helping data center developers seamlessly navigate community engagement across North America. You can read the full article here.
TechNewsWorld recently spoke to GRC’s Gregg Primm about the proliferation of immersion cooling and how the solution can help curb climate emissions from data centers and meet the demands of increasingly powerful computer chips. You can read the full piece here
We recently worked with with our client UPSTACK to develop a byline on the importance of risk assessment when implementing IT security. You can read the full piece at Physicians Practice
Mission Critical recently featured the joint data center white paper written by GRC and Intel that discusses the challenges to sustainable power use in data centers and demonstrates the benefits of liquid immersion cooling in overcoming these hurdles. With three quarters of operators viewing sustainability as a competitive differentiator, this paper details the problems associated with increasing the compute resources needed in data centers, which consume more energy and rapidly expand an organization’s carbon footprint. […]
Business Insider recently recognized GRC as one of nine companies that analysts and investors are betting on to help reduce emissions. Read the full article at Business Insider
Our client Data Specialty Inc. (DSI), the leader in data center design-build, recently designed the new Prefabricated Modular Data Center For California Public University to provide their students and faculty with reliability and enough space for updated IT technology. From the article: “DSI worked with the university’s facilities team and a local engineering firm to design a new, state-of-the-art data center to serve campus needs. The university chose DSI’s Prefabricated Modular Data Center solution and […]
In a recent article covering the rejection of Amazon’s Northern VA data center project, Milldam’s President Adam Waitkunas is quoted discussing the current perception of data centers and emphasizing how data center projects need to have a community relations aspect to them. From the article: “Community relations is going to have to be the new normal for the data center industry because, especially with the development of the edge, it’s going to be nonstop data center growth,” Waitkunas […]
Network World has announced GRC’s partnership with Intel to take immersion cooling mainstream. GRC specializes in immersion cooling for server hardware, which is gaining popularity. From the article: “The two companies announced a multi-year partnership that involves working with data center customers to develop and implement advanced immersion cooling techniques for future data centers. The two will look to test the safety and reliability of the technology for immersion-cooled racks running Intel Xeon Scalable processors.” […]
See Milldam’s dedicated Data Center Community Relations Service During the past few years, data centers have increased their presence in the suburbs. In response, many local communities are speaking out and resisting this transformation. For example, two cities in Arizona and communities in Virginia, Connecticut and Oregon are complaining and want to stop future data center development. Data center owners and operators must be aware of this and have a strategy for data center community […]
Local resistance to new data centers is on the rise — and industry insiders tell Bisnow that developers need to start paying attention. Bisnow interviewed Milldam Public Relations President Adam Waitkunas about the perception of data centers. From the article: Experts point to growing public awareness of data centers and their potential impact amid the rapid digital transformation sparked by the coronavirus. Major outlets routinely run stories about the massive amounts of water and power consumed by data centers […]
