

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
DatacenterDynamics
DCD Zero Downtime is DCD's editorially-led podcast. In each episode, our editorial team will be talking with leading members of the data center and digital infrastructure community, delving deeper into the future of the industry and its major challenges.
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Feb 20, 2025 • 49min
Episode 73 - Understanding Stargate's Masayoshi Son, with Lionel Barber
From visionary bets in Yahoo, Alibaba, and Arm, to disastrous gambles on WeWork and Vision Funds, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has defied both logic and expectations. Self-styled as a modern Genghis Khan, the once richest man in the world has rolled the dice yet again, plowing money into OpenAI and Stargate. What can we learn from his past? We talk to Lionel Barber, author of Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son.

Feb 6, 2025 • 29min
Episode 72 - Subsea cable resilience, security, and redundancy with Steve Roberts, Exa Infrastructure
This episode with Steve Roberts from Exa Infrastructure discusses the resilience, security, and redundancy of today’s subsea cables, particularly in the face of adversities such as wars and natural disasters.
Join us to discuss who should be investing, how the cable landscape is set to change in the coming years, and all things subsea.

Jan 23, 2025 • 22min
Episode 71 - AI in Australia with Ben Crowe, Vertiv
Australia is seeing its data center market grow rapidly.
In this episode, we talk to Vertiv’s Ben Crowe about the trends they are seeing across the country, the impact that AI is having on the data center sector, and the role that the government can play in supporting the industry.

Jan 10, 2025 • 23min
DCD Bali Bonus: Damon Lim, datacenterHawk
Rounding out our Bali event bonus content, we chat to Damon Lim, regional director for Asia Pacific at datacenterHawk

Jan 9, 2025 • 25min
DCD Bali Bonus: Sumit Mukhija, STT GDC India
At our Bali event, we spoke to Sumit Mukhija, at the time the CEO of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres India

Jan 8, 2025 • 12min
DCD Bali Bonus: Darren Webb, Evolution Data Centers
At our Bali event, we spoke to Darren Webb, co-founder and CEO of SE Asian market-focused Evolution Data Centers

Jan 7, 2025 • 27min
DCD Bali Bonus: James Murphy, DC Byte
At our Bali 2024 event, we sit down with James Murphy, managing director, APAC, at DC Byte

Jan 6, 2025 • 20min
DCD Bali Bonus: Paul Dwyer, LOGOS Group
At our Bali event, we chat to Paul Dwyer, Head of Data Centres at LOGOS Group

Dec 13, 2024 • 31min
Episode 70 - Using CFD to the max with Gordon Johnson, Subzero Engineering
Computational Fluid Dynamics has a very important role to play in data centers, but how does it work?
In this episode, we break down CFD with Subzero Engineering’s Gordon Johnson - the factors that need to be considered, its role in the data center, and the science behind it.

Nov 28, 2024 • 33min
Episode 69 - Diamonds are for semiconductors with Diamond Quanta CEO and founder Adam Khan
While silicon is still the semiconductor king, alternative chip materials are increasingly being sought in order to find their successor and address some of the biggest challenges facing the chips of today.
In today’s episode of Zero Downtime, CEO and founder of Diamond Quanta, Adam Khan, discusses the benefits of diamond semiconductor technology, its applications, and the work Diamond Quanta is undertaking.