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Penguin Solutions MemoryAI KV cache server, an 11TB memory appliance, enables efficient deployment of enterprise-scale AI inference Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENG), the AI factory platform company, today announced the industry's first production-ready KV cache server that utilizes CXL memory technology to address the critical "memory wall" challenge in AI inferencing—Penguin Solutions MemoryAI™ KV cache server.

Lauren Santander Pearson, Global Director of Content & Campaign Strategy, Digital Realty RESTON, VA — April 9, 2026 — Data Center Frontier today announced that Lauren Santander Pearson has joined the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) for the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit, the publication’s flagship event focused on the future of AI infrastructure, power, and digital development.

AUSTIN, TX (April 8, 2026) — As Texas lawmakers examine the future of data center development, national security, and grid reliability, Kirk Offel, CEO of Overwatch Mission Critical, will deliver invited testimony before the Texas House Committee on State Affairs this Thursday.

We conclude our article series on the evolution of data center airflow management. This week, we’ll outline the path forward and why the real competitive advantage lies in designing facilities that do not just move air but understand it. Download the entire report. The workloads shaping our digital future bear little resemblance to those of the past.

As AI workloads continue to scale, data centers are facing a new class of electrical challenges—ones driven not by total energy demand alone, but by how quickly that demand can change. AI training environments, particularly those built around dense GPU clusters, can cause rapid and unpredictable swings in power consumption. These fast load changes place stress on power systems that were originally designed for steadier, more predictable behavior.

Liquid cooling has an adoption problem, and it isn't technical. The industry has spent the last two years framing the cooling conversation as a binary choice: keep running air or commit to a full direct-to-chip liquid cooling deployment. That framing makes for clean conference slides, but it ignores the reality facing most operators today. The majority of data center environments are not greenfield builds with uniform rack densities and a single GPU architecture across every row.

In this episode of the Data Center Frontier podcast, Matthew Vincent Editor in Chief speaks with Jarrett Atkinson, Vice President of Supply Chain at BluePrint Supply Today, Jarrett Atkinson, Vice President of Supply Chain for BluePrint Supply Chain explores how modern WMS platforms are redefining resilience, visibility, and performance in mission critical construction supply chains where failure is not an option We dive into what separates a standard WMS from one engineered for...

Unlock potential in your thermal management strategy by multiplying performance. This one-stop-shop capabilities piece details Trane's collaborative approach to smarter scaling for future-ready operations. Explore how Trane empowers data centers to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving AI digital world. This overview highlights innovative cooling technologies designed to handle growing compute demands while boosting efficiency and reliability.

AI growth is driving demand for high‑performance data centers. This whitepaper explores how rising energy and water use along with the shift to liquid cooling present the need to reassess whether PUE and WUE remain the best efficiency metrics relative to compute power. As AI usage increases, the demand for high-performance data centers has surged. These data centers are the backbone of AI applications, providing the necessary computational power to process vast amounts of data.

Data centers, particularly those optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, are frequently characterized in public discourse as a disruptive threat to grid stability and ratepayer affordability. But behind-the-narrative as we are, the AI‑driven data center growth is simply illuminating pre‑existing systemic weaknesses in electric infrastructure that have accumulated over more than a decade of underinvestment in transmission, substations, and interconnection capacity.