B2B media brandData Center Dynamicshas seen its turnover increase by 175% to more than £11m a year since 2020 in six years helped by theAIboom.
DCD was founded in 2001 as an industry directory and events business covering the “digital infrastructure of the internet”.
The site now reports on the funding, designing, building and operating of data infrastructure “from chip level up”, said editor-in-chief Sebastian Moss.
While the site has always covered data centres, the scale and definition of these has drastically changed.
Content is less about the “model side” of AI, with “a jillion publications on that”, but focuses more on how data centres powered, operated and cooled.
UK-based Data Center Dynamics Ltd – which uses American English because the US is “historically” the “data centre land” – has been owned by InfraXmedia since 2022. InfraXmedia also owns events companies Data Center Nation and Yotta Events, and acquired networking publication SDX Central in 2025.
DCD started to see a boom in traffic and revenue during the Covid pandemic, as investors moved towards technology stocks.
“There was literally only one safe place to put money into and that’s data centres,” said Moss.
The investment boom led to a “real wave of data centre building” and an increase of newcomers to the industry: investors, non-industry people trying to understand how Zoom works, and “cloud guys”, said Moss, adding these people wanted to learn and turned to DCD for the information.
Having existed for around 20 years, DCD’s new readers trusted them, said Moss, and the company moved into digital events and expanded its team, “and that allowed us to really start to grow like crazy”.
Source: Press Gazette
