In today’s follow-up to last week’s story on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), we do a rapid-fire Q&A with BESS expert Juan González Martínez, Energy Manager USA for Mexico City-based …
Susana Schwartz
Susana Schwartz
Susana Schwartz is the Technology Editor for RCRTech’s AI Infrastructure Newsletter, covering AI infrastructure, data center investments, the AI chip landscape, alternative accelerators, power requirements, racks, real estate and leasing, liquid cooling, AI infrastructure chips, and all things related to AI infrastructure. Prior to RCR Tech, Susana was Managing Editor with Billing World & OSS Today Magazine, Telephony Magazine, Connected Planet Online, Telecom Asia, and Pipeline, as well as a writer and researcher with TM Forum’s Insights (formerly known as Research and Publications). When she’s not writing, Susana enjoys riding horses, racquet sports, rollerblading, and trying to keep up with her very-busy teenage son.
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With grid interconnection delays exceeding three or four years, BESS helps data center builders and operators achieve longer-duration energy management This is part-2 of a 3-part series on Battery Energy …
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Texas could soon have more AI data centers than anywhere else in the world, and that’s why RCRTech considers it ground zero for new data center innovation. As a gigawatt-scale …
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Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are getting more attention as diesel generators face growing pushback about air quality, noise, and high maintenance. Increasingly, data center operators are considering these systems …
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When goals move beyond simple standby backup and require an active, value-generating asset, BESS may be the way to improve day-to-day data center economics In the U.S., data center consumption …
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To follow up on yesterday’s anticipated financial earnings reports from Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon, we see that spending as a percentage of revenue was significantly higher than industry averages.
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We are currently in the peak of this quarter’s earnings season, and Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta’s anticipated reports have investors bracing for a combined 2026 Capex exceeding $600–700 billion.
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Joining the ranks of OpenAI, xAI and other tech companies signing lucrative government contracts, Google has agreed to the Pentagon’s language around “any lawful government purpose,” triggering a rise in …
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In sum, what to know: Similar to a recent deal struck by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google signed a classified agreement with the Pentagon for use of its AI models for …
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The data center industry is still booming despite some doom-and-gloom reports
Surely by now, all of you in the data center world have read Bloomberg’s recent report that claims “almost half of all U.S. data centers planned for this year are …