About the publication
Our approach
Data Center Edition explores the buildings, systems and people behind computing.
Coverage
A chip does not work alone. Neither does a data center. Our stories connect computing with cooling, power, networks, construction and the people who keep everything running. We follow the conditions that shape projects around the world. Our four editorial sections are Land, Power, Cooling and Compute.
Ownership
Data Center Edition is being developed alongside commercial work in industrial reliability and data-center products. That context matters: this publication does not claim an independently funded newsroom.
Relevant commercial relationships belong alongside the work they affect. Advertising and sponsored contributions must be identified where readers encounter them. A company affiliation is part of a contributor's byline, not a detail hidden at the end.
Sources and corrections
Our explainers are grounded in published sources. Company statements are attributed, plans are distinguished from completed projects, and technical examples state their assumptions. Unless stated otherwise, stories are based on desk research rather than site visits, interviews or equipment tests.
These stories and editorial illustrations were prepared with AI assistance. Publication dates appear with each story. To suggest a correction, identify the passage and provide supporting evidence.
Films
Our selected films are embedded from their original publishers. They are not Data Center Edition productions. Operator and manufacturer films show a particular organisation’s approach, not an independent comparison of competing systems. Each watch page names the maker and links to a related explainer.
Video players use YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed. Opening a film page connects to YouTube; captions and playback availability are controlled by YouTube and the original publisher. We do not invent interviews, quotations or transcripts.
Images
Photographs are credited where they appear, with the photographer or institution and the licence. Most come from national laboratories and other public agencies, in the public domain or under Creative Commons licences, and from Wikimedia Commons contributors. They are archival photographs, not our own site visits, and their appearance does not imply endorsement.
The Issue 01 cover photograph shows NCTC technician Eddie Blankenship installing a fibre jumper in Lafayette, Tennessee, in September 2018. It is by Lance Cheung / USDA, in the public domain. It is an archival photograph, not a new interview or site visit.
Diagrams in the stories are drawn by Data Center Edition from the sources each story cites; illustrative scenarios are marked as such. The magazine’s five editorial illustrations are AI-assisted concepts. They do not depict a reported facility or event.
Film listings use a frame from each film, except Frontier’s, which uses an Oak Ridge National Laboratory photograph and says so in its caption.
Contributors
We welcome contributions from engineers, operators, researchers and industry leaders. A useful explanation or a candid account of a difficult project matters more than a job title. Bring evidence, identify your affiliations and tell us what another practitioner can learn.
The founding issue.
Issue 01 is the first issue of Data Center Edition, published in October 2026. Sources and picture credits are on pages 44 to 47.