David Chernicoff

6 days ago | datacenterfrontier.com | David Chernicoff

The redevelopment of the Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania represents an important transformation from a decommissioned coal-fired power plant to a state-of-the-art natural gas-powered data center campus, showing the creative reuse of a large brownfield site and the creation of what can be a significant location in power generation and the digital future.

1 week ago | datacenterfrontier.com | David Chernicoff |Matt Vincent

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a powerful tool, it is the engine driving the next industrial revolution. At the core of this seismic shift are AI factories, a concept NVIDIA has pioneered as a critical foundation for transforming how intelligence is created, scaled, and delivered. Unlike traditional data centers, AI factories are not designed for general-purpose computing.

2 weeks ago | datacenterfrontier.com | David Chernicoff

In January, the US government announced its role in the Stargate Project, a government-supported, but privately funded initiative aimed at significantly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the United States. In February, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, traveling with Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, found himself in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Possibly inspired by the location, Wright said:We're at the start of Manhattan Project Two.

2 weeks ago | datacenterfrontier.com | David Chernicoff |Matt Vincent

Last month's NVIDIA GTC 2025 saw the expected announcement of next-generation products in the AI GPU/CPU market that Nvidia has been dominating, if not defining, for the last few years. Interestingly enough, the message for these future generations of product was focused not just on “bigger and better,” but also, “do more and work with your existing hardware investment” - not that future improvements in performance, scalability, and energy efficiency weren’t addressed.

2 weeks ago | datacenterfrontier.com | David Chernicoff

With Microsoft, Google, and Amazon all discussing plans to launch new cloud regions in Thailand and nearby countries, the government of Thailand is looking to attract data center development. Recent announcements of $2.7 billion in investments for 3 new data centers indicate that they interest is there for Thailand as a data center hub. Bloomberg has reported that Thaksin Shinawatra, the de facto chief of the ruling Pheu Thai Party, discussed the cost reduction at an event in Bangkok in March.