Joaquin Fagundo

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on this fall's AI warnings: AI building AI, AI worms, $893M in AI scams, rising power prices and AI job cuts. Video inside.

Joaquin "Jack" Fagundo, writing from Parkland, FL, revisits his OCNJ Daily column on modular data centers in light of the AI buildout. In September 2024, OCNJ Daily ran my column Modular Data Centers: Flexibility and Scalability for Modern Businesses. My argument was that prefabricated, modular capacity gives companies a faster and more measured way to grow their infrastructure than a traditional build. Two years later, I'd make the same argument, only louder. The case rested

Photos, podcast interviews and insights from Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo, a Parkland, FL technology executive in cloud, data centers and AI.

Connected servers, a cloud, and a checklist illustrating cloud migration dependencies and operational readiness as per Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo.

Trillions of dollars are moving into AI infrastructure. Jack Fagundo, a Parkland, FL technology executive who has run enterprise data center portfolios for two decades, reads the latest forecasts from the operator's side of the raised floor.

Joaquin "Jack" Fagundo, writing from Parkland, FL, on how AI's appetite for compute is changing the way data centers are designed, powered and cooled. I've seen plenty of "next big workloads" over my career. Virtualization, big data, the move to cloud. Each one changed the data center at the margins. AI is different, because it changes the building itself. Joaquin Fagundo, Parkland, FL - Google Data Center Start with the rack. A legacy enterprise rack drew 5 to 10 kW. AI GPU

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on how AI changed what data center customers buy, and five go-to-market moves providers need to win AI workloads.

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on why the cloud did not replace the data center, and how to decide where each workload belongs.

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on how AI is moving from pilots to everyday operations, and what that means for business leaders and the economy.

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on where technology budgets leak money and eight practical ways to recover it without cutting what the business depends on.

Joaquin "Jack" Fagundo on how technology is showing up in daily life and local business in Parkland, FL. I spend most of my working life thinking about technology at enormous scale: data centers, cloud platforms, programs that span continents. Then I come home to Parkland, a quiet, family focused city in northern Broward County, and see the same forces at a much more human scale. It's a useful reminder that technology doesn't only change markets. It changes how a neighborhood

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on why lasting technology savings come from optimization, not flat cuts, and where AI helps and adds cost.

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on why the future of AI infrastructure will be decided by power, cooling, density and the teams that operate them.

Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo on what Google's BeyondCorp got right about zero trust, why most enterprises are still mid-journey, and five moves for technology leaders.